Ordinance Formulation Workshop

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Art 'N' Nature's Venus Genson is Woman Entrepreneur of 2012

Congratulations to Ms. Venus Genson for bagging the Women Entrepreneur award for her trailblazing feats in social entrepreneurship and community development through Art 'N' Nature Manufacturing Corporation. The award is one of the citations given during the recently capped Entrepreneur of the Year Philippines 2012 awarding ceremonies.

SGV Foundation, Inc. established the Entrepreneur Of The Year program in the Philippines in 2003. It is also supported by De La Salle University, the Department of Trade and Industry, Development Bank of the Philippines, Philippine Business for Social Progress, the Philippine Stock Exchange and the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship.

Ms. Genson is also the president of the Venus Group of Companies, a member company of PBSP.

The Perks of Goat Raising

As a component of the DISOP BUTTERFLIES AND TREES Project, members of PBSP's community organizations in barangays Buhisan and Toong participated in a two-day seminar on goat production and management. 

During this seminar, PBSP taught the participants how to make silage (preserved goat food). A barrel will feed a goat (weighing 30 kg) for approximately 10 days.  The advantage of this technology? Farmers need not feed and look for food for their goats all the time. And, when food sources go scarce, this will serve as a reserve since it spoils after two years.

After this seminar, each people's organization will be provided with startup capital and at least 12 goats as their additional means of earning income.

Taiyo Yuden Philippines plants 10K seedlings at Buhisan

Employees of Taiyo Yuden Philippines planted 10,000 native and endemic tree seedlings on a four-hectare site in Toong, Cebu City. The activity is led by their EMR Director Koichi Iguchi, General Managers Toshihiko Uemura and Akira Takahashi, Assistant General Manager Keiichi Kimura, and EMs Shozaburo Kanai, Satoshi Miyamae, Toshiaki Nakano, and Koji Taketome.

Taiyo Yuden Philippines has been a partner of PBSP for its reforestation efforts since 2001. The company will continue to adopt four hectares for reforestation every year until 2015.

     

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SMB to plant 45K trees in Borbon

San Miguel Brewery Communications Officer Romelinda Garces and Plant Manager Manuel Moreno turn over the check to PBSP Visayas Regional Office Manager Jessie Cubijano and Program Coordinator Malu Largo for the planting of 45,000 native and endemic tree seedlings. The seedlings will be utilised for the company's reforestation efforts in Borbon, northern Cebu.

Veco employees plant trees with PBSP

More than 70 employees of the Visayan Electric Company (Veco) planted 12,500 seedlings over five hectares of the Buhisan Watershed and Forest Reserve.

This activity is in partnership with the Visayas Regional Office of PBSP.

In 2010, Veco also partnered with PBSP for a five-year reforestation park project in the Cebu Hillylands. The Veco Refo Park Project aims to plant 1 million trees over 540 hectares of the Cebu Hillylands.

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