Shopee recently awarded a one-year scholarship grant worth ₱100,000 each to the first batch of Shopee Scholars. Launched in July, Shopee Scholars is an education assistance program created for the benefit of sellers and their families. Among the numerous applicants, Victor Voltaire Cabanes, Shana Catherine Quilalang, and Johanna Caresse Eusebio were chosen because of their academic excellence and essay entries.
FamilyDOC, the country’s largest chain of primary care clinics, under Ayala Healthcare Holdings, Inc. (AC Health), recently launched its advocacy campaign, D’BEAT Movement (D’BEAT), to promote diabetes prevention and management to more Filipinos.
Ready your wish list—the biggest shopping month of the year is coming this September with Home Credit’s Hulugan Knockout promo. Every weekend of the month, you can drop by the partner stores nearest you and get a 5% discount on the price of the item you want on top of paying for it in easy monthly installments. Prefer a 0% interest deal instead? You can get this on select items as well! Just pay the downpayment and go home with your item. Now isn’t that the best pre-Christmas shopping gift ever?
Managing a home can be challenging. Whether you’re someone trying to live solo for the first time or an experienced homemaker moving into a new abode, you have to prepare yourself for some amount of trouble-shooting at your home – loose pipes, a wall that needs to be repainted, a table with a loose foot, the likes. While it’s easier to hire or ask someone to help you out, this isn’t always convenient for your wallet and on situations when you need to have something fixed ASAP.
The growing number of gender identities is a hot topic for all sectors and niches of society. From supporters to dissenters, it’s still not everyone’s cup of tea and there’s still more people not accepting and embracing the idea of it. Some people give their full support for the LGBT+ but a lot more are still on their way to adjusting and aligning their mindsets. Even after creating laws to protect the interests and rights of LGBT+, these beautiful people are still being discriminated at work, in the park, at church or even in school. You can read more about the hardships of the LGBT+ community here.
Last August 19th, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the UN Refugee Agency, and UNIQLO, a global retailer giant, commemorate World Humanitarian Day by distributing clothing to some 750 families displaced by the Marawi conflict. This marks the second visit by the partnership to the besieged city of Marawi.
The Manila Electric Company (Meralco) announced on its monthly infomercial, Meralco Advisory, a Php 0.42 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) reduction in power rates this month. The downward adjustment this month equates to Php 84 in total savings for a typical household consuming 200 kWh and represents a total net decrease of almost P1.00 per kWh since May 2019.
FamilyDOC, the country’s largest chain of primary care clinics, under Ayala Healthcare Holdings, Inc. (AC Health), recently partnered with Transportify, a full-service logistics marketplace, to promote primary healthcare behavior to over 20,000 drivers.
Ballet Manila, the most solidly trained classical ballet company in the Philippines, has launched its 24th Performance Season with the theme “On Pointé” at S’Maison in Pasay City.