NutriAsia and Papa team up with DepEd to teach students about proper nutrition

 

School children from Regions I, X, XI, and the Cordillera Administrative Region received DepEd workbooks and Papa products for a truly unique learning experience

 

Proper diet and nutrition are crucial in young children’s formative years. These foster proper development for children, leading to good health, intelligence, and behavior, thus giving them better chances in succeeding later in life.

In light of this, NutriAsia and Papa forged a partnership with both Marylindbert International and the Department of Education (DepEd) for school year 2020-2021, the Pinggang Pinoy Pina-Sweet Sarap Comprehensive School Program. It is a special module that teaches the importance of having the right diet and nutrition. Powered by Papa Banana Catsup and Papa Spaghetti Pack, the program aims to educate Grade 1 and 2 Filipino students about how keeping a good diet with the right nutrition leads to proper and healthy development.

In photo (L-R): Department of Education Usec. Diosdado M. San Antonio and Former DepEd Regional Director and K to 12 Curriculum Consultant Dr. Paraluman Giron paved the way for the partnership with Papa Catsup.

“With the Pinggang Pinoy Pina-Sweet Sarap Comprehensive School Program, we have a whole plan ready for teaching young Filipinos how to keep a proper diet and take in the nutrients they need,” said NutriAsia President and COO Angie Flaminiano. “We hope to be a part of their good growth and development and, in turn, the Philippines’ growth as well.” The Pinggang Pinoy program will be launched in 30 participating schools across the country, namely in Regions I, X, XI, and the Cordillera Administrative Region.

The class module is the first in the three-stage Pinggang Pinoy program. The second stage will involve cooking demonstrations and activities that will show students and parents how to prepare healthy snacks using Papa products. The final stage will involve a cooking contest that will challenge students, teachers and parents to create unique recipes using Papa Banana Catsup and Papa Spaghetti Pack.

Papa’s advocacy of helping educate Filipinos in the classroom and beyond has also led them to produce edutainment Facebook videos for NutriAsia’s HomeSchool Program. These videos can be viewed at https://nutriasia.com/homeschool/

For more information and updates on Pinggang Pinoy and NutriAsia’s other initiatives, visit the official website at www.nutriasia.com, and follow NutriAsia on Facebook.

 

5 commuting hacks in the new normal

 

 

 

When commuting, wear your face mask and face shield properly at all times.

With the holidays over, thousands of Filipinos are coming back from their hometowns or simply traveling to get to work.

 

If you are one of these commuters, please remember that the pandemic is not yet over, and strict health protocols are still in place. However, there are ways for you to be able to get to your destination safely. AXA Philippines, one of the country’s leading insurance providers, is here to give you some tips on just that.

 

Prepare for cashless payments. Many transport services have implemented cashless paying schemes as a precautionary measure against the COVID-19 virus. For example, ride-hailing apps only accept bookings if you will pay through your e-wallet or credit or debit cards. Also, trains and some buses only allow passengers to ride if they have a reloadable contactless smart card. To avoid any hassle, make sure that you have the necessary apps and cards. But if you have to pay with cash, it’s best to prepare the exact amount to lessen physical contact.

 

Always bring your essentials. When you take public transportation, you may be at risk and be exposed to many strangers. Remember to always protect yourself by properly wearing your face mask and face shield. It’s also best to bring a spray bottle of alcohol and a pack of sanitary wipes to not only clean your hands, but to also sanitize handrails, windows, and other surfaces in a public vehicle.

 

Check required travel documents. Since regions in the country are under different levels of quarantine, some places may have stricter policies and health measures than others. This means that some cities may require you to present certain documents prior to entry. These may include a travel pass issued by municipal offices or city chief of police, medical certificate, company ID, and a negative RT-PCR result. Because of this, make sure to do your research before traveling and prepare whatever is necessary.

 

Keep yourself entertained. If you’re going to ride the train, a bus, or a van service, expect the lines to be long. Since these modes of transportation can’t operate at full capacity, you probably have to wait in line for a long time. So, fight the boredom and frustration by keeping yourself entertained. Before you leave the house, you can download movies or a television series that you can binge-watch on your phone as you wait in line. You can also create a music playlist, listen to podcasts, install new games, or bring a pocketbook to help you pass the time.

 

Avoid talking and eating. When in public transportation, refrain from talking or eating as this will require you to open your mouth or take off your mask. Conversations can wait until you are indoors and no longer around strangers. Likewise, make sure that you eat before you leave the house so that you won’t get hungry while travelling.

 

Have an emergency contact. When you’re on the road, regardless if you are commuting or riding a private car, it’s best to have someone to reach out to in case of emergencies. To help with this, AXA Philippines has Rescue Line, a special service accessible through the Emma by AXA app that provides 24/7 free access to emergency response such as roadside assistance, police, and ambulance anytime, anywhere. With just a few taps, professional help may be requested, and your loved ones will be simultaneously notified of your emergency situation and current location. What's more, AXA has also enhanced its emergency response services with Rescue Line’s geotag feature which can help pinpoint your location faster and more accurately. You may download Emma by AXA via App Store and Google Play and register or create your account, even if you are not yet an AXA insurance policyholder.

 

For more information about AXA Rescue Line, visit https://axa.com.ph/rescue-line .

Canva empowers home based entrepreneurs with its accessible suite of tools

Sandee Sevilla, who use Canva as their main business tool.

With the passion for helping more online entrepreneurs, Canva has launched Canva for Negosyo, the Filipino business owner’s partner in creativity and productivity for their digital footprint. It’s an online hub that offers a wide selection of resources useful for designing, marketing, and managing a small business online: from video tutorials on branding and graphic design to customizable marketing templates and toolkits. 

Entrepreneurs who are looking to present their products and services to attract more customers can choose from among Canva’s many user-friendly templates and toolkits. Then, there are entrepreneurs, like Sandee Sevilla, who use Canva as their main business tool.

Sandee, a stay-at-home mom, creates banners, visual content, marketing assets, and various other designs for her clients. “I had a client 3 years ago who needed a postcard. I did my research, saw Canva, tried it and fell in love with it.” She has been taking on her clients’ design needs ever since, averaging 30 clients a month. “I have taken on more than 600 projects already, with 14 regular clients who ask me for social media graphics, banners, etc.,” she says proudly.

Currently she earns up to 150,000 pesos monthly. Sandee has been able to provide employment opportunities as well. “I started as a one-woman team, but with the big demand, I then had to hire my first assistant.” Now, she has five team members who are mostly fellow Filipino stay-at-home moms.

With her home based business allowing her to earn as much as P20,000 to 30,000 a month back in 2016 to 2017, Sandee has been able to contribute significantly to their family income, “We have been able to move to a bigger home where my four kids now have rooms of their own. My husband and I have also transferred them from public school to private school.”

“For me, Canva is a time-saver because it is so easy to use. It allows me to compete internationally even though I am just a self-taught designer. It has opened so many doors for me. There are really a lot of opportunities through Canva,” Sevilla shares.

Maisie Littaua, Head of Growth for Canva Philippines says that Canva is happy to partner with “homepreneurs” in building their online businesses. “Canva is designed for ease of use, and with our toolkit, we offer a variety of choices which small businesses can harness for their growth. Madaling matutunan at gamitin ang Canva, at maraming business opportunities ang pwedeng pag-gamitan ng skills dito. With Canva, truly, your imagination is your limit.” 

Canva for Negosyo also hosts a series of webinars covering topics such as Intro to Canva and Designing 101, Branding for your Business & Social Media Mastery, and Designing Your Marketing Materials on Canva. A Canva for Negosyo Facebook community is also online, where members can network and share their own tips on how to expand their market. These and other business help tools are available on Canva.

 

If you are a small business owner, a local entrepreneur, visit https://www.canva.com/canva-for-negosyo/ to know more about Canva for Negosyo.

 

ABOUT CANVA

Launched in 2013, Canva is an intuitive online design and publishing platform with a mission to empower everyone in the world to design anything and publish anywhere. Featuring a simple drag-and-drop user interface and a vast library of templates ranging from presentations, social media posts, posters, invitations to resumes, a huge collection of stock photography, illustrations and fonts, anyone can take an idea and create something beautiful. Canva is available on web, iOS and Android.

 

Defensil Isopropyl Alcohol introduced newest Ambassadors

Defensil Isopropyl Alcohol is welcoming Richard Gutierrez, Sarah Lahbati, and kids as brand ambassadors

Defensil Isopropyl Alcohol continues its campaign to be Filipino families’ ally in germ protection as they welcome newlyweds, Richard Guttierez and Sarah Lahbati, together with their adorable kids Zion and Kai, as their brand ambassadors.

Richard and Sarah’s family also needed to go through a lot of adjustments in the new normal. One adjustment that they had to do was to look for better ways to protect their family against germs. They found their newest ally in Defensil 70% Solution Isopropyl Alcohol, which promises a higher level of protection against germs and viruses.

About Defensil 70% Solution Isopropyl Alcohol

One way to prevent the spread of germs is regular disinfection of hands and high touch surfaces using a rubbing alcohol.

To provide a higher level of defense against germs in the new normal, the Philippine Society for Microbiology is recommending Defensil 70% Solution Isopropyl Alcohol.

Created by Beauty Elements Ventures Inc, Defensil 70% Solution Isopropyl Alcohol

·        kills 99.9% of germs to give people the peace of mind that they are well-defended.

·        It starts to kill germs on contact and upon constant use, will provide up to 12-hour protection.

 

Defensil 70% Solution Isopropyl Alcohol is also a pharmaceutical grade alcohol, which means that it has passed the strictest quality standards of the Philippine Food & Drug Administration (FDA). To know if an alcohol is pharmaceutical grade, people can check the label.

 

Isopropyl Alcohol Label 101: Pharmaceutical vs. Cosmetic Grade Isopropyl Alcohol

Isopropyl Alcohols are registered under the Philippine FDA as either Pharmaceutical or Cosmetic Grade. To know the difference, the front label of a pharmaceutical grade alcohol shows the product’s generic name enclosed in a box. Meanwhile, the back label should show a DRHR number, which is the FDA Production Registration Number, proving that the product has passed the highest FDA Standards for isopropyl alcohol.

Check out this infographic for more info!

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Go beyond resilience to renaissance –UnionBank President and CEO

 

Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank) held the seventh iteration of its E-Talk Tales webinar series last December 9, wherein UnionBank President and CEO Edwin Bautista gave an overview of the Bank’s milestones in the past year and how it went from providing help for Filipinos to survive the pandemic to creating a better digital normal for everyone.

UnionBank made headlines in May this year after being named ‘second most helpful bank in Asia-Pacific’ in the BankQuality Consumer Survey on Retail Banks that was conducted in April.

This helpfulness was evident in UnionBank’s commitment to ensuring that its essential banking services remained accessible and reliable 24/7 during the enhanced community quarantine period, a time when uncertainties ran rampant and the needs of customers could change at any time.

The Bank helped the government in the disbursement of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)’s Social Amelioration Program (SAP) cash assistance to 700,000 beneficiaries 

amounting to P4.9 billion. It also assisted partner Local Government Units (LGUs) in the distribution of cash or loan proceeds to constituents.

UnionBank has also helped countless micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) digitize amid the pandemic through its MSME platform GlobalLinker, and through MSME-leaning platforms Sentro, SeekCap, and bux, which are offered by its fintech spinoff UBX. To date, more than 27,000 online shops have already been made using Sentro, SeekCap now has more than 16,000 MSME signups, and bux has over 92,000 users. GlobalLinker's user base is also now at more than 38,000.

Another sector of society that UnionBank was able to assist especially at the height of the pandemic were teachers, with the help of its thrift bank subsidiary CitySavings Bank. To date, CitySavings has extended a total of P26.1 billion in teachers' loans, P3.2 billion in motorcycle loans, and 2.9 billion in MSME loans to beneficiaries.

And now, with the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic in the rearview mirror, UnionBank has begun the next major phase in its digital transformation journey, going full-speed ahead from merely displaying its resilience in the face of an unprecedented global health crisis, toward a renaissance in innovation and co-creation.

UnionBank has been a leader in the practice of the agile methodology, which enables the Bank to react quickly to any situation and achieve innovation at a much faster rate. But the Bank knew it had to become much faster. So, to do this, the company started migrating to an even faster way of working: DevSecOps.

Short for “development, security, and operations,” DevSecOps is an ideology that aims to integrate security into every stage of the development-deployment cycle. With this new methodology, the Bank has been able, among other advantages, to test new features that they develop much faster and deploy the said features on an almost real-time basis. Moving forward, DevSecOps will play a key role in the creation of new services for the Bank.

Aside from DevSecOps, another key element of the Bank’s digital renaissance is data science and AI. This will be implemented across various verticals within the Bank, from mobile banking to credit, from algorithms to operational enhancements, among others.

"This is really the time wherein, together we can usher in a renaissance in the area of banking and technology. It's an area where the Philippines can not only be a fast follower, but can actually be a trailblazer in the banking world,” Bautista said.

To know more, visit their official pages:

Unionbank of the Philippines at https://www.unionbankph.com/, UBX at https://ubx.ph/, Unionbank GlobalLinker at https://unionbank.globallinker.com/login, and CitySavings at https://citysavings.com.ph/.

RISING ERA DYNASTY, Inc. (RED) gets to the heart of today’s health crisis

 

Rising Era Dynasty (RED), distributors of natural and organic high-quality nutritional products, advocates health and wellness through a holistic approach, ensuring these products are of the highest quality and optimum potency, very vital requirements to what we are now facing globally.

Go ESSENTIALS

As a fast-growing movement, RED continues to educate people on the importance of health and wellness and the impact of Organic Farming as means to Restore, Enhance and Defend the state of mother earth and the future of mankind.

 

RED is a trailblazer, not only in their support for today’s growing need of a nutritional revolution against viruses and the likes, but also in enabling this need to pave the way to Restore, Enhance and Defend a person’s desire to Abundance and Prosperity. By creating a business platform with a campaign for well-being, every person has the opportunity to attain Financial Independence and Time Freedom. Now that the majority of us work from home, the possibility of reaching out to more people is limitless.

 

“RED is totally dedicated in providing and delivering outstanding quality products and services that will improve lives. Our vision is to be known as a top-of-mind brand for all our innovative and superb quality products.  Expect our total commitment to exceptional standards of performance and productivity and we are willing to embrace new ideas and learn continuously to create a long-term value for our consumers, our people and business partners”, says RED President and CEO Jayant Red Era. “RED’s products are organically grown, manufactured and developed in the highest proprietary process and standard and are highly-essential items as we partner only with the best scientists and doctors together with a high-quality performing manufacturing company to achieve all these”, Era adds.

 

Top selling wellness products of RED which can help build a strong immune system are the GoEssentials consisting of RED GoGreen, RED GoZyme, and RED GoDefend. The newest member under the GoEssentials team is the GoWhite Glutathione capsules. To serve the rising clamor for beauty products, RED also has natural organic soap bars: RED Natural Organic Whitening Soap, RED Organic Sea Salt Soap, and RED Organic Algae Soap. And they also have the highly-preferred organic solution for soil and plants – Grand Humus Plus and Grand Humivet for livestock. To beat the bite, RED has an anti-mosquito lotion to beat the rising and fatal mosquito borne diseases such as Dengue, Zika Virus, Malaria and Chikungunya.’

To further serve the need for health and wellness problems, RED added vital products such as GoProtect, GoBreaker, GoProsgeum and GoHeart&Brain. Lastly, they also have premium healthy coffee blends with Ginseng & Tonkat Ali, Spirulina & Ganoderma, and Kacip Fatimah.

For more information about RED, visit https://redinc.net/ or find them on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/red.risingera.77

 

SM BEARS OF JOY 2020: HONORING FRONTLINERS

 

 

SM BEARS OF JOY

 

SM Bears of Joy is an annual project of SM Cares, SM Supermalls, and Toy Kingdom to encourage shoppers to share the holiday seasons’ joy with the children in need.  This year, SM Cares honors the bravery and selflessness of the frontliners with the special Bears of Joy -- Kit the Doctor, Heart the Nurse, Ace the Soldier, and Max the Police.  

These cute and cuddly Bears of Joy can be purchased at all SM Supermalls nationwide, online stores of Toy Kingdom, and The SM Store.  For only 200Php, you will get to purchase 2 Bears of Joy, one for you to keep and one for the mall’s partner beneficiary.  With this campaign, shoppers will have the opportunity to share and put a smile on the faces of children in need while commemorating our courageous frontliners during this pandemic.

For SM City Taytay, you can find the Bears of Joy booth near the entrance of the SM Store at the Ground level of Building A.

SM City Marikina’s Bears of Joy booth is located at the right side of the Main Entrance beside the carpark cashier.

For SM City East Ortigas, you can find the Bears of Joy booth at the Main Atrium near the Christmas centerpiece.

SM Bears of Joy project runs from Nov. 4 – Dec 25, 2020, in time for this season of caring and sharing.

SM Cares is the corporate social responsibility arm of SM Supermalls which handles initiatives to support communities, promote social inclusion, and care for the environment.  SM Cares’ advocacies include programs on Persons with Disabilities, Environment, Women and Breastfeeding Mothers, Senior Citizens, and Children and Youth.