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EPSON AND PBSP GIVE QUALITY LEARNING TO BATANGAS KIDS Epson Precision (Philippines) Inc. President Osamu Koshiishi smiles with the happy students. STUDENTS OF PAGOLINGIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN BATANGAS were the happy recipients of the latest Learning Resource Corner provided by the Epson C.A.R.E.S (Contribution to the Advancement and Restoration of Environment and Society) Project in partnership with the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) and the Department of Education. This initiative is to benefit at least 5,503 public elementary students and 94 teachers in Lipa City, Batangas.       The recent turnover ceremonies in Pagolingin Bata and Rizal elementary schools are second to the last turnover of Epson as it completes its 10 target schools. Pagolingin ES currently has 213 pupils and 7 teachers. Textbooks, bookshelves, and other learning materials were provided to improve the students' academic performance, reading comprehension, writing composition, and fundamental operations.       Epson Precision (Philippines) Inc. President Osamu Koshiishi was delighted to pose with the students at the turnover ceremony. ACCENTURE AND PBSP TO LEAD TRAINING FOR PROMISING ENTREPRENEURS (L-R) Klaas Oreel, PBSP chief executive advisor; Rafael Lopa, PBSP executive director; Lito Tayag, Accenture Philippines country directing manager; and Nescel Asuncion, Accenture senior executive sponsor for corporate citizenship. ACCENTURE PHILIPPINES has awarded a grant of PhP 3.49 million to The Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) to help set up and manage training development programs for promising entrepreneurs in the country. The grant is aligned with Accenture's global corporate citizenship focus, Skills to Succeed, which will equip 250,000 people around the world by 2015 with the skills to get a job or build a business.       PBSP will be handling the grant facility and will later on conduct a business clinic or learning session for BiD (Business in Development) Challenge enterprises that need financial assistance. BiD Challenge Philippines is a business plan competition for innovative business ideas that combine poverty reduction and profit.       The first recipient of the Accenture grant is the Bote Central, Inc. (Chain of Happiness) which produces different kinds of flavorful coffee. The training includes setting up of roasting facilities and training of coffee farmers. *** *** CALTEX URGES MANILA'S PUV DRIVERS TO BE AWARE OF TB OIL GIANT CHEVRON PHILIPPINES INC. recently brought to Manila its information campaign to fight tuberculosis, with the support of the Manila City Health Office, the Federation of Jeepney Operators and Drivers, and the corporate-led Philippine Business for Social Progress, which implements a TB program supported by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.       The project is urging public utility vehicle (PUV) drivers and their passengers to be aware of the various symptoms of TB and seek early treatment to avoid the spread of the disease.       In its campaign for drivers to be "tsuper-healthy," the project encourages every public transport driver to avail of free check-up services at their nearest Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS) certified health centers to protect himself as well as the health of his family and community.       This grassroots campaign, which was soft launched in Makati City in 2010, was created to complement the U.S. $5 million grant to the Global Fund by Chevron Corporation for scaling up multi-drug resistant TB treatment in the Philippines.       Chevron is the first corporate champion of Global Fund, which is the world's largest multilateral financier of AIDS, TB and Malaria programs. PBSP, the principal recipient of the Global Fund supported program against TB, aims to sustain TB control and ensure access to comprehensive quality TB health care in the country.       Chevron recently unveiled its Caltex anti-TB bus with the aim of conducting on-board seminars in public transport terminals and in Manila communities such as its host district of Pandacan, as it is committed to using its vast network of facilities to drive the campaign.       Campaign posters were displayed from the comfort rooms to the pump toppers. Gasoline attendants at all Caltex stations in Manila were seen distributing flyers enumerating the symptoms of TB. SCHOOLS PROJECT IN HONOR OF CORY AQUINO GOES DIGITAL DONATIONS FOR SCHOOL CHAIRS OR DESKS can now be done at the click of a desktop mouse or a touchscreen tablet or smartphone.       Four years after it ended in 2007 and nine years after it began in 2002, a school chairs donation project in honor of former President and global democracy icon Cory Aquino has been revived -- albeit with a twist in the digital age.       The corporate-led Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), a non-profit organization for social development, is launching a new online giving facility, iGiveBackNow, in partnership with UnionBank, starting off with the President Corazon C. Aquino School Desk Project as the primary beneficiary.       After providing desks and chairs to various schools from Iloilo to Basilan and Maguindanao for more than five years, the project would now be targeting at least 486,303 seats for around 2,523 public elementary and high schools nationwide, mostly in the poor provinces of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).       Launched at Dusit Thani, Makati City on August 23, iGiveBackNow aims to raise funds in order to implement more poverty reduction projects aside from PBSP's projects with member companies and donor agencies.       In a statement, PBSP said iGiveBackNow (www.igivebacknow.pbsp.org.ph) would be an easier, more secure, and faster web-based platform for individual or corporate giving, where every person or company would have the opportunity to help uplift the lives of millions of Filipinos.       The project aims to benefit more than 5 million Filipino students who lack school desks and chairs, squatting on the floor or sitting on one-slab benches inside their makeshift classrooms.       From 2002 to 2007, the school desk project was able to grant at least 23,259 school desks to around 120 public schools nationwide. PBSP spearheaded the project through Ambassador Bienvenido Tan, a former chairman of its board of directors.       Among those who supported the project were individual philanthropists as well as major businesses and foundations like PLDT, PHINMA Group/PHINMA Foundation, Citibank, Ayala Foundation, SGV & Co./SGV Foundation, and the Washington SyCip Foundation.       For more inquiries, contact PBSP communications officers Amy Melissa Malaluan and Grace Muncada at (02) 527-7741 to 48 loc. 313 telefax: (02) 527-3741, or email abmalaluan@pbsp.org.ph, amy.pbsp@gmail.com, or grace.pbsp@gmail.com.                                                                                                       - PBSP stories by Grace Muncada. Photos courtesy of PBSP. ********* ********* ********* PBSP Intro      1      2      3      4      5      6      7      8      9      10      11      12      13      14