Visits home for erstwhile street children to welcome 2009 activities
Manila, Philippines, January 31, 2009—In its efforts to engage its 650-strong workforce in endeavors beyond business, Headstrong, a global IT consultancy and solutions company, formed Headstrong 2.0utreach in its Manila Global Delivery Center (MGDC) to institutionalize community-conscious and socially-veered programs.
Formed in November 2008 as part of the employee engagement committee, Headstrong 2.0utreach has thus far organized three internal activities that conjure employees in to whole-hearted sharing.
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Polaris, Virlanie’s very own rock band, formed after a drum class turned into a series of band practice sessions. Here, the keyboardist, guitarist, drummer and vocalist learnt the discipline that music demands. A year, three original songs and a live performance later, Polaris has recorded a demo tape.
With little knowledge of the language, culture, and the country in general, Dominique Lemay left France for the Philippines more than two decades ago with an assignment as a social worker… barely knowing that he would stay for a long term.
Five years from his arrival in the country, Dominique founded Virlanie Foundation, one of the country’s largest organization catering to street children and their families.
Dominique Lemay, social worker, founding president of Virlanie foundation and People Asia’s People of the Year 2008 awardee, talks about why he left France and a relatively comfortable life to effectuate change in a community 13,000 kilometers away from his homeland.
Listen to or read this interview as Dominique speaks to Greater Good Philippines about how he has come to love the Philippines and adopt to its culture, one that is far from his own.
All these and more only here on Greater Good Philippines.
These water bottles can go a long way for the boys of Pangarap Shelter in Pasay City.
Cecil Artates, “sherpa” at Hands On Manila, along with the members of Unitiima and Pinikpikan, Filipino world music bands, are organizing percussion sessions at the Pangarap grounds in aims of “healing” the boys through music.
The group needs close to 100 bottles.
Put your unused or broken five-gallon bottles on the social cycle. Exciting projects from the organizers and the boys of Pangarap Shelter awaits!
For more information, please visit inaykupo.multiply.com, or contact tetilartates@gmail.com or jayr@greatergoodinc.com.
In line with this, you can visit www.lifehackery.com to find out 17 unusual things you can do with a five-gallon water bottle.
Pangarap Foundation offers a wide variety of services to street children, on the streets or in drop-in and residential settings.
ECHOstore Sustainable Lifestyle introduces ECHOteach, a new mentoring program of public lectures and seminars focusing on the three principles the store stands for—the self, community enterprises and development, and environmental issues. The monthly series, each one highlighting a theme, begins this January.
Exploring inner awareness and wellness this month, ECHOteach debuts with lectures on angels, aromatherapy, and personal and environmental wellness. Angel Reader Nonoy Ozaeta tackles questions like Are angels real? What do they do to us? How can we communicate with them? Nonoy has been a practicing architect since 1983 and is now a faculty member of the UP College of Architecture. But he also leads another life as an angel counselor where he acts as a channel or medium between people and their guiding angels, a vocation he has been undertaking since 1993 when he first saw and experienced his own guiding angel. His introductory lecture ARE YOU MY ANGEL? is on January 20, while HAVING IT ALL WITH YOUR ANGEL on January 27 helps you understand abundance, and how you can work with your angel to bring it into your life. Both lectures are at 9:30 am.
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