SUN LIFE Donates PHP 40 Million To Promo Healthier Lives Through Basketball For Marginalized Youth Across Asia
Sun Life Chief Client Experience & Marketing Officer Carla Gonzalez-Chong, sixth from left, led the opening of the Sun Life 3x3 Charity Challenge which was graced by celebrities Various communities in the Philippines, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam will soon get to enjoy revitalized basketball courts and basketball training programs as Sun Life donates PHP 40 million to promote healthier lives among marginalized youth across Asia. The philanthropic program will be mounted in partnership with Beyond Sport, a global sport-for-social-change foundation. This is in answer to the 2022 Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance report sponsored by Sun Life, which showed high levels of physical inactivity and sedentary behavior among children and adolescents across Asia, contributing to high rates of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, mental health challenges, and other damaging health outcomes. The report further showed, that in terms of overall physic...