Author: Team Orange

Since the beginning of time, Filipinas have glowed with the spirit of strength and beauty. Whether they be draped in the intricate filipiniana or clad with warrior’s garb in many of our fiercest battles, Filipinas have always shone with power. Their intelligence and beauty have been an inspiration to many and have left a trail of positive impact on the world. Since its inception almost six decades ago, Binibining Pilipinas has proudly bannered these qualities and showcased them for the whole world to see. It has always strived to display the magnificence of Filipinas on the global stage, and with…

With school season fast approaching, World Vision Philippines launched its Back-To-School Program to help enable and empower children to have joyful experiences in this school year and beyond. According to the World Bank, learning poverty reached an all-time high in the Philippines last 2021, with 90% of children still unable to read by age 10. The same report found that only 26.9% of Filipino students had broadband internet access, while distance schooling only covered 20% of children in the country. Even with access to online learning, children ages 12 and below have been found to have trouble focusing on on-screen…

Leading life insurer Pru Life UK’s health insurance product is now available on GCash, the mobile wallet provider, to offer easy access to protection to millions of Filipinos. PRUPersonal Accident Junior for children is now available, to be followed by its equivalent for adults, PRUPersonal Accident Standard soon this year. Insurance penetration in the Philippines is still among the lowest in Asia, recording lower than 2 percent of the population according to the Insurance Commission1. On the other hand, mobile phone users in the country have grown to around 82.3 million, highlighting the potential in digitizing insurance to reach even…

Just in time for the celebration of Philippine Environment Month in June and coinciding with Philippine Arbor Day last June 25, 2022, JG Summit Olefins Corporation (JGSOC) commemorated an important milestone on its One Million Trees Project after it reached the halfway mark. A symbolic planting of the 500,000th seedling was held at the JGSOC Petrochemical Complex in Batangas City led by Batangas 5th District Congressman Mario Vittorio Mariño, Batangas City Mayor Beverly Rose Dimacuha, Executive Assistant to Batangas Governor Carlos Jose Pastor, Batangas Provincial Government Environment and Natural Resources Officer Luis Awitan, JGSOC Senior Vice-President of Government Affairs and…

The Philippines’ only fully digital, end-to-end, content monetization and event ticketing company, Ticket2Me, partners with the educational institution, Arellano University, for an upcoming online concert happening this July 30, 2022, Saturday. Titled HIMIG AU, HIMIG NATIN – The #ONEARELLANO Virtual Concert 4.0, this fun, exciting, and lss-inducing virtual concert will feature musical artist, Kiyo, and singer-songwriter, Moira Dela Torre. The concert will stream via the enhanced Ticket2Me platform at four different time slots, between 8:00 AM to 10:00 PM, to accommodate more than a 60,000 audience. During the week of the concert, various online games will also be held through…

The rapid growth and development of the tech industry over the last decade calls for a new way of molding future tech leaders. In order to keep up with the fast-paced industry, there is a need to equip future leaders with a global perspective and a constant desire to learn. Part of equipping them with such skills includes expanding their scope of work to enable them to gain new competencies and exposure to different peers, colleagues, business functions, teams, markets, and more—all of which are crucial in training future tech leaders. This is exactly how Shopee, the leading e-commerce platform…

Mekeni Food Corporation, one of the country’s biggest food manufacturing companies, is further solidifying its commitment to promoting local heritage not just in the country but in the US. The home-grown food brand recently partnered with Hiraya Foundation, a New York-based non-profit organization established by Filipino and Filipino-American professionals, for the first-ever Gawad Alab ng Lahi. Gawad Alab ng Lahi is a program by Hiraya Foundation that aims to recognize individuals, enterprises, and communities that contribute to uplifting the lives of Filipinos and promoting progress in the Philippines.

It’s the time of the year when the mishaps of the rainy season come around – floods, more extended traffic jams, lack of sunlight heat, and the exhaustion that comes from all of these. Rainy weather not only drains your energy but also makes laundry more complicated since clothes usually take more time to dry up. This is why homemakers opt to seek ways how they could make their laundry a more effortless and less exhausting chore to cope with the challenges of doing laundry and bearing all the tiring mishaps of the rainy weather.

Sun Life Grepa Financial, Inc. (Sun Life Grepa), one of the country’s major life insurance companies, made its annual donation to the Hebreo Foundation for the latter’s twin advocacies on health and education. This was given as part of Sun Life Grepa’s support for the 2022 Sunpiology Family Challenge event. Apart from supporting the health goals of the Sunpiology event, the annual donation from Sun Life Grepa has been used to also send poor but deserving children to school. Seen during the handover to Hebreo Founder and Sun Life brand ambassador Piolo Pascual (2nd from right) and Chiqui Gonzales, Corporate…

The Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) partners with Ayala Foundation, Inc. (AFI), the social responsibility arm of the Ayala Group of Companies, for a donation drive that aims to encourage BPI cardholders to donate to Ayala Foundation to promote arts and culture in the country. The two institutions signed their partnership for this donation campaign in a ceremonial signing held on July 20 at the Ayala Museum.

Sun Life Philippines has officially been certified as a Great Place to Work™ after 86% of its employees affirmed in a recent survey that the financial services company provides an overall great employee experience. The employee survey was conducted independently by Great Place to Work®, the global authority on workplace culture. Results show that 92% of employees feel that they are treated fairly regardless of their race, 93% feel they are treated fairly regardless of their gender, and 94% feel that they are treated fairly regardless of their sexual orientation. Meanwhile, 93% deemed Sun Life as a physically safe place…