The Department of Education (DepEd) has recognized the Aboitiz Group’s outstanding contribution in pursuing the development of basic quality education in the Philippines.
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KINDer raises almost Php1M in one day
KINDer, Aboitiz Foundation’s crowdfunding website, gathered almost half a million pesos or Php466,599 during its “12.12 Double Your Kindness Day” fundraiser. This amount was matched by the Foundation, bringing the total amount raised to nearly one million pesos to fund various development projects.
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3 in 4 TESDA-Aboitiz scholars land jobs in 2018
Around 74%, or 3 in every 4 of the technical-vocational students granted certification after availing of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA)-Aboitiz Scholarship Program have successfully gained employment this year.
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Aboitiz gives Christmas treats to Taguig children
Aboitiz team member volunteers trooped to Cayetano Sports Complex in Taguig City a few days before Christmas to bring cheer to nearly 300 kids in the area.
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Aboitiz gives relief assistance to fire-affected families in Taguig
The Aboitiz Foundation, together with the Philippine Red Cross and Taguig City local government provided assistance to 130 families displaced by a fire in Barangay Bagumbayan, Taguig City last Nov. 23, 2018
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Aboitiz-supported trainees receive national certification
Amy Chua, Fred Dalumpines, AEV-Media Relations l November 22, 2018 Twenty-five Aboitiz Foundation trainees from San Pedro Multi-purpose Cooperative in […]
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Aboitiz gives relief assistance to fire-affected families in Taguig
Amy Chua and Fred Dalumpines l November 30, 2018 SPIRIT OF GIVING IN TIMES OF DISASTER. The Aboitiz Foundation, together with […]
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CARD and Aboitiz Foundation’s program supports 3,400 entrepreneurs
More than 3,000 entrepreneurs from Benguet, Davao City, and Albay have received microfinance assistance from the Adopt-a-Branch program of CARD, Inc. and Aboitiz Foundation. The Adopt-a-Branch program aims to provide easy, affordable access, and friendly experience to microfinance clients who come from rural and unbanked areas.
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Improving capabilities through government partnerships
With GovRel’s Innovation in Governance Academy (IG Academy), Aboitiz was able to offer to both National Irrigation Authority (NIA) and Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (ISAFP) training modules which actually helped them improve not only themselves but also the processes they handle in their work assignments.
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Cebu school looks to top ‘Brigada’ for 4th time
Behind the simple and unassuming façade of Mabolo Elementary School on the corner of M.J. Cuenco and Juan Luna Avenues in Cebu City, is a community of teachers, students, and volunteers who eagerly prepare the school well in time for the opening of classes every year.
ABC Stories
Aboitiz provides first sustainable livelihood in Marawi
As the affected residents like Noni and Jasmine cannot solely depend on government financial assistance, the Aboitiz Group sought to create sustainable forms of livelihood for them through Pilmico and Aboitiz Foundation. Pilmico also provided training for Noni, Jasmine, and their fellow Marawi residents on how to bake and manage a bakery. It will also monitor the progress of the bakery business.
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Benguet-based women’s coop becomes source of empowerment
Following the 1990 Luzon earthquake, members of Thanksgiving coop had to look for their main source of livelihood to meet daily needs. With willpower to overcome this challenge, 16 women came together to form a livelihood association and continue to rise above the circumstances.
ABC Stories
A-Clubs in Focus: Musik-A’s Cause for Melodies
The sound of a live band playing as the crowd sings and cheers…in the office. This was definitely not your usual Friday night scene but the lively festivities were matched only by a genuine warmth filling the air as A-People spent their ‘overtime’ to enjoy music and raise funds for a worthy cause.
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PSG Ladies to run their own bakery in Malacañang Park
The Aboitiz Foundation partnered with the Presidential Security Group to help provide sustainable livelihood and income opportunities to members of the PSG Enlisted Personnel Ladies Club.
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A-People add fresh touches to Brigada Eskwela
On its 11th year as a partner in DepEd’s Brigada Eskwela, the Aboitiz Group introduced new activities for A-People who gathered in Manila, Cebu, and Davao to help our public schools prepare to open a new school year.
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WeatherPhilippines and UP boost communities’ disaster preparedness
Aboitiz Foundation and WeatherPhilippines has tapped the University of the Philippines Resilience Institute (UPRI) and UP Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazard (UP NOAH) to conduct community-based disaster risk reduction and management (CBDRRM) training sessions to various communities nationwide.
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Warmth for families displaced by fire
“We are very lucky to have the Aboitiz Foundation as our partner in our relief efforts. As a starting branch, there is a lot of pressure to provide service, but your generosity greatly helps us to deliver assistance and comfort to the affected families, especially to the kids and infants,” Julian Beato Philippine Red Cross Taguig Administrator, expressed.
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Egg-laying machines for our soldiers
PAGKAIN Para Sa Bayani, a livelihood program by the Aboitiz Group, distributed egg-laying machines to various military camps to provide entrepreneurial opportunities for soldiers wounded in action.
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Equity in education for Aboitiz Lumad scholars
Davao Light and Aboitiz Foundation are extending financial assistance to a new batch of Lumad students to support their college education through the Indigenous People (Lumad) scholarship program.
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Aboitiz scholars turn wastes into bricks
The debut of Project Let Environment Generate Opportunities (LEGO), coneceptualized by a group of Aboitiz FOundation scholars, highlights how sustainability is embedded in our students’ mindset.
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P.A.G.K.A.I.N. Para Sa Mga Bayani Livelihood Program
Under KISS ME is the Aboitiz-led livelihood project dubbed P.A.G.K.A.I.N. Para Sa Mga Bayani livelihood program, featured at the launch of the TIENDA project at Camp General Manuel T. Yan in Mawab, Compostela Valley Province with President Duterte and Agriculture Sec. Manny Piñol as guests of honor.
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CSR Outlook 2018
The year 2017 marked several turning points for the Aboitiz Foundation. From the change in leadership to the innovations in our CSR strategies, we took a more challenging course to translate the Aboitiz Group’s brand promise of advancing business and communities into co-creating safe, empowered, and sustainable communities nationwide.
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Aboitiz Group’s CSR: Stepping up to add greater shared value
Embracing the brand promise of advancing business and communities by co-creating safe, empowered, and sustainable communities, CSR representatives of various Aboitiz Business Units are determined to develop and implement development projects that are integrated, inclusive, and solution-focused.
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Making kids smile this Christmas season
Over 550 kids from Barangay Bagumbayan and the Children of Cebu Foundation, Inc. joined the outreach activities at the Cayetano Sports Complex, Barangay Bagumbayan in Taguig City, and at the Aboitiz Corporate Center in Cebu City.
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Guiding senior high school students to find career paths
More than two thousand senior high school students participated in the recently conducted Career Clinic at the SMX, Mall of Asia in Pasay, and the Taguig Education Fair at the Lakeshore Hall, Taguig City.
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Breads and Sunshine
The only bakery in the sitio, the Sunshine Bakery caters the sitio and its neighboring communities. But Sunshine’s breads are more than how they look. Behind the making of these breads is a story of hope and new beginnings.
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DepEd and Aboitiz Group partner to empower more public high school students
AboitizPower’s Cebu Private Power Corporation and the Aboitiz Foundation partnered with DepEd to give scholarships to 30 students from Don Carlos A. Gothong Memorial National High School in Cebu City.
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Enabling a school’s big turnaround
More than 900 students are using refurbished classrooms at the San Rafael Technological and Vocational High School, made possible with the help of the Aboitiz Foundation and the Aboitiz Power Corp.’s business unit Therma Mobile, Inc.
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Better Lives for Farmers from the Land of Dreamweavers
The Aboitiz Foundation and Pilmico Foods Corporation, The food business unit of the Aboitiz Group, partnered with the Department of Agrarian Reform to provide sustainable livelihood opportunities for more farmers in the country, as well as help improve the country’s agricultural sector.
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Aboitiz Foundation empowers more public high school students
The Aboitiz Foundation has joined forces with the Department of Education and the Cebu Private Power Corporation to give opportunities to public school students to pursue their secondary education.
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Bringing a cooperative’s vision to reality
Through the Aboitiz Foundation’s enterprise development program, PAMULCO was granted its first loan of PHP150,000 in 2010. They used this to improve the cooperative’s profitability and gain financial stability.
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Aboitiz Group volunteers join Marawi relief effort
The Aboitiz group volunteers assembled sleeping kits, which were turned over by Hands On Manila to the International Care Ministries (ICM) and Community and Family Services International.
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Aboitiz Foundation and UnionBank make donations convenient for cardholders
Made possible through the partnership between Aboitiz Foundation and UnionBank of the Philippines (UBP), credit card rewards points can be redeemed as a donation to a cause of the foundation.
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Fields of Gold
A thick carpet of dainty, yellow flowers stretches out before Wedeliza Gabisay. Reaching as far as the eye can see, the flowers, drenched in every color of the rainbow, seem to go on forever.
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Inspiring children to read for success
AboitizPower business unit APRI launched the Read to Succeed Program, a project that aims to furnish 47 classrooms with reading corners, train 48 teachers on effective reading instruction and creative storytelling, and train 23 team members on creative storytelling.
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Aboitiz-supported school recognized as Best Brigada Eskwela Implementer
Aboitiz-supported Ricardo P. Cruz Sr. Elementary School (ES) in Taguig City was recently recognized as the Best Brigada Eskwela Implementer 2017 (Division Search, Mega School Category) by the Department of Education (DepEd) Division of Taguig City.
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Empowering Cooperatives: Building better lives through coop-eration
From our initiatives, 25 cooperative members in Davao are now certified bakers after recently undergoing the NC II Training on Baking and Pastry Production at the Philippine Baking Institute in Davao City and received certification.
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Photo Story: Aboitiz companies pursue membership with PBSP
The Aboitiz Group and PBSP are in its 46th year of working together for social progress, the former being a founding member of PBSP.
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Partnering for the country’s first humanitarian vessel
The Aboitiz Foundation supports M/V Amazing Grace through the ship management services of Abojeb, which includes ensuring the efficiency of the vessel, arranging for maintenance and repair, assigning technical consultants, and developing and implementing a safety management system.
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Families discover renewable power the fun way
Over 80 members of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) from Brgy. San Vicente, Sto. Tomas, Batangas and their families learned more about the importance of clean and renewable energy during their visit to the Cleanergy Center in Makban, Laguna.
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Aboitiz business units and the Aboitiz Foundation build capacities of cooperatives
As part of its Enterprise Development for a BetterWorld program, the Aboitiz Foundation believes that key to an empowered community is equipping its members with the capability to help themselves through sustainable livelihood and the availability of employment opportunities.
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Lumad scholar pays it forward
I am Mark Amban and I am a Lumad. The school community where I belong to is a microcosm of […]
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CSR Mid-year Forum: Aboitiz Group takes CSR to the next level
Exciting things are ahead for the Aboitiz CSR Group as it continues its journey to drive change for a better world. The interactive and fun-filled Midyear CSR Forum 2017 introduces a shift in development program’s strategies towards co-creating safe, empowered, and sustainable communities.
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Aboitiz Foundation banners LCF Expo, shares initiatives on driving change for a better world
Inspired by its purpose of driving change for a better world, the Aboitiz Group’s CSR Expo delegation, led by the Aboitiz Foundation, commits to take the lead in developing more innovative and inclusive business models within the Aboitiz Business Units (BUs).