GStuff Stuffs Us with Everything Healthy and Helpful!

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G stuff was created out of a desire to conserve the natural beauty of the Philippines while growing sustainable wealth and creating stability in local communities. By sending profits of the sales of premium Filipino products back into supporting local, social and environmental projects, GStuff aims to eradicate poverty, while protecting the natural environment. G Stuff's mission is to be a model of social entrepreneurship embodying the qualities of integrity, creativity, dynamism and social conscience at its best. This means when poverty is reduced, a community benefits. When we protect our natural environment, everyone benefits.

Owned by ABS-CBN Foundation Lingkod Kapamilya’s Chairman Gina Lopez, G Stuff offers a wide variety of health and wellness products! They range from Sun Blocks, Herbal Rubs and Lotions, Lip Balms, Natural Insect Repellants, Moringa-based products from Breath Sprays, Lip Care to Hydrating Lotions to , VCO Massage Oils and Oil Pulling Solutions, Essential Oils to Home Collection like Room Sprays and to gorgeous Abaca-Sinamay Roses, woven stool boxes, woven bags and clutches. G Stuff also offers healthy food products like all-natural Coconut Flour, Kefir Spread, Duck Eggs, Gluten-free untreated Taro Chips, Volcanic Pili Nuts, the amazing Anvil Tsokolate Drink and Coffee with Malunggay, Healthy Oatmeal Cookies with Duck Eggs, and Healthy Gourmet Tuyo.

The G in G-Stuff is a play on G-Spot therefore these are goodies that hit your health and hoist it to a premium level. It also ushers to G of Gina Lopez, an advocate of health and wellness. Being a person who will never do anything to put anybody’s health in danger, GStuff gets to the three famous slogans:

Good for You

 It's committed to promoting products that are good for your health, and to things that are Filipino. They’re made from the country’s natural resources.

Good for Communities

 It pays fair trade prices for raw materials, and the profits go back to community projects, helping the micro-entrepreneurs in the provinces, for their businesses to thrive.

Good for the Environment

 Profits go back to protecting the environment because G-Stuff uses products from sustainable farming.

GStuff is at the Powerplant Mall Rockwell,  Alabang Town Center, and Trinoma. 

Visit our website at www.gstuff.ph, like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/gstuffph and Instagram at @gstuffph. 

Call 09175864530, 5005623, 5005587, 5005604, 4161828.

G Stuff Hits the G-Spot of Your Health With New Store!

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GStuff Alabang Store Opening is GS! Great Success!

Emphasizing natural goodness, G Stuff finally reopens its doors to a more improved location to shoppers last February 29 in Alabang Town Center. Shoppers will enjoy a wide variety of sustainable produce from herbal remedies, aromatherapy oils, personal care, home remedies to food products.

Ms. Gina Lopez  and Ms. Dyan Castillejo,

Simultaneous to its store re-launch last Thursday is another successful health and wellness fare held at the ground floor of the mall as it offered a wide variety of G Stuff’s well-loved locally sourced products. Part of the fare’s program included a Health and Wellness talk prepared by G Stuff’s founder, Ms. Gina Lopez and Wellness advocate, Ms. Cory Quirino.

The Health and Wellness talk started with a powerful fitness prayer routine conducted by Ms. Dyan Castillejo, in which she shared that exercise is also a form of prayer.

Ms. Dyan Castillejo

In her talk, Ms. Gina Lopez enthusiastically shared about the healing testimonials of using the products of G Stuff.

Ms. Gina Lopez 

Ms. Cory Quirino also gave her wisdom on wellness to participants as she shared her secrets in staying young and beautiful.

Ms. Cory Quirino 

Visit G Stuff at the 2nd level of Alabang Town Center’s main building for all your all-natural needs. 

For more information, you may visit their website at www.gstuff.ph, 

Facebook at www.facebook.com/gstuffph and Instagram at @gstuffph. Or call 09175864530 or 5005623

‘Upcycling Project’, UNIQLO Philippines and ABS-CBN Lingkod Kapamilya Foundation (ALKFI) Helps Empower Women in the Philippines.

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UNIQLO Philippines and ABS-CBN Lingkod Kapamilya Foundation (ALKFI) found a way to use excess denim fabrics and do some good - UNIQLO Excess Denim Fabric Helps Empower Women in the Philippines.

What happens to the excess denim fabrics from alteration processes in UNIQLO stores in the Philippines?

Everyday, UNIQLO collects denim fabrics from the customers who have their jeans altered. The scrap pieces of fabric are virtually unusable on their own, but UNIQLO Philippines and ABS-CBN Lingkod Kapamilya Foundation (ALKFI) found a way to use them and do some good. 

Dubbed as the ‘Upcycling Project’, UNIQLO and ALKFI are providing an economic opportunity for disadvantaged women to support their families. With some creativity and on-site instruction from UNIQLO’s sewing takumi (sewing experts), these women have designed beautiful and functional bags from the alteration fabrics, which in turn were purchased by UNIQLO. After several months of hard work, the first lot of 1,000 ‘upcycled’ denim bags is now complete.

Katsumi Kubota, Chief Operations Officer, UNIQLO Philippines.

“UNIQLO not only tries to make life better for our customers through high-quality products. We also want to support communities like the ABS-CBN Foundation’s Bayan ni Juan project in Calauan, Laguna,” says Katsumi Kubota, Chief Operations Officer, UNIQLO Philippines.

“We want to give back to the community by providing training and an opportunity to empower these talented women.” 

Gina Lopez, ABS-CBN Lingkod Kapamilya Foundation (ALKFI)

The women are from families who used to be an informal settler and lived along the polluted Pasig River in 2009. ABS-CBN Foundation’s Bayan ni Juan project relocated them to a community in Calauan, Laguna. 

UNIQLO is committed to give back to communities and make the world a better place through the power of clothing. In 2006, UNIQLO began All-Product Recycling Initiatives globally, and from November 2015, the company also runs a special recycling campaign called ‘10 Million Ways to HELP,’ to collect lightly used UNIQLO clothes and distribute them for refugees and others in need worldwide. In addition, UNIQLO Philippines has its own unique program to help local communities, like the Upcycling Project. 

“Through our Upcycling Project, we hope to restore the dignity among people and the environment, even in a small way,” Kubota adds.

These upcycled denim tote bags will be distributed to consumers as novelty items during UNIQLO Philippines’ events.

For more updates, please visit the UNIQLO Philippines’ website at www.uniqlo.com/ph and social media accounts, Facebook (facebook.com/uniqlo.ph), Twitter (twitter.com/uniqloph) and Instagram (Instagram.com/uniqlophofficial).

About UNIQLO LifeWear

Apparel that comes from the Japanese values of simplicity, quality and longevity. Designed to be of the time and for the time, LifeWear is made with such modern elegance that it becomes the building blocks of each individual’s style. A perfect shirt that is always being made more perfect. The simplest design hiding the most thoughtful and modern details. The best in fit and fabric made to be affordable and accessible to all. LifeWear is clothing that is constantly being innovated, bringing more warmth, more lightness, better design, and better comfort to people’s lives.

About UNIQLO and Fast Retailing

UNIQLO is a brand of Fast Retailing Co., Ltd., a leading global Japanese retail holding company that designs, manufactures and sells clothing under seven main brands: Comptoir des Cotonniers, GU, Helmut Lang, J Brand, Princesse tam.tam, Theory, and UNIQLO. With global sales of approximately 1.6817 trillion yen for the 2015 fiscal year ending August 31, 2015 (US $13.88 billion, calculated in yen using the end of August 2015 rate of $1 = 121.18 yen), Fast Retailing is one of the world’s largest apparel retail companies, and UNIQLO is Japan’s leading specialty retailer.

UNIQLO continues to open large-scale stores in some of the world's most important cities and locations, as part of its ongoing efforts to solidify its status as a truly global brand. Today the company has a total of more than 1,700 stores in 17 markets worldwide including Japan, Australia, Belgium, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, U.K. and the U.S. In addition, Grameen UNIQLO, a social business established in Bangladesh in September 2010, currently operates several Grameen UNIQLO stores in Dhaka. UNIQLO manages an integrated business model under which it designs, manufactures, markets and sells high-quality, casual apparel. The company believes that truly great clothes should be supremely comfortable, feature universal designs, are of high quality and offer a superb fit to everyone who wears them.

With a corporate statement committed to changing clothes, changing conventional wisdom and change the world, Fast Retailing is dedicated to creating great clothing with new and unique value to enrich the lives of people everywhere.

For more information about UNIQLO and Fast Retailing, please visit www.uniqlo.com and www.fastretailing.com.

"After Manila, Pasig River Rehabilitation Goes to QC " - Gina Lopez

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ABS-CBN Foundation managing director Gina Lopez
at Estero de San Miguel

Following the significant changes on the surroundings and the lifestyle of residents along the esteros revived by the Kapit Bisig Para sa Ilog Pasig (KBPIP), the campaign for the rehabilitation of Pasig River is set for an aggressive push to spur local government units in cleaning their own esteros.

ABS-CBN Foundation managing director Gina Lopez with
the River Warriors

This year, KBPIP is focused on the waterways in Quezon City which empties most of its trash to the San Juan River. San Juan River, meanwhile, contributes over 40% of the filth that flows into the Pasig River.

“If we clean San Juan River, we’ll clean half of Pasig River. If we have to clean San Juan River, we have to clean Quezon City,” said Gina Lopez, the managing director of ABS-CBN Foundation that operates KBPIP.

Estero de Paco (Quirino to Pedro Gil) -
Current taken 20 Sep 2012

KBPIP patterns much of its rehabilitation efforts after the rehabilitated and beautified Estero de Paco in Manila. It has since undergone a major makeover since the start of its rehabilitation in 2009 – what used to be an immense garbage patch occupied by informal settlers is now a park bordered by plants and illuminated by streetlights.

The rehabilitation process of the estuary began by relocating thousands of families living along the waterways, building linear parks, training of River Warriors or community volunteers who clean and guard the esteros against polluters, and installing active island reactors to bring life back into the estero waters.

Using Estero de Paco as a template, Lopez said she wants every estuary in the metro to be developed as a commercial hub where residents can earn a living and improve their lives. Lopez even takes pride in the construction of a supermarket and a three-story hotel near Estero de Paco that she said wouldn’t have been possible had the estero not been cleaned.

“The conjecture here is that when you clean the esteros, the economy will boom up,” said Lopez.

Estero de Paco (Trece de Agosto to Apacible) - Current taken 20 Sep 2012

Lopez also emphasized the benefits of the Estero de Paco clean-up on the lifestyle of residents in the area. For one thing, the estero’s vicinity didn’t suffer from flooding during the onslaught of rains brought by the monsoon winds last August because water could flow easily without trash jamming the stream.

Since the estero was cleaned, substantial changes have been noted in the area. Based on the barangay blotter, a 40% reduction in crime incidence was recorded in seven out of 16 barangays near the estero. According to the City of Manila, the value of land near Estero de Paco has also gone up and might benefit the land owner of up to P2 million in 20 years.

More notably, a survey sponsored by KBPIP with 7,000 households living within 200 meters from Estero de Paco revealed that 100% are getting more exercise, 97% have greater sense of community pride, 97% are satisfied with their lives, 89% feel less sick, and 89% feel safer in their community. Eighty five percent of them also claimed they have lower medical expenses due to their cleaner and healthier environment.

“Cleaning the esteros reaches far beyond the economic effect. It goes into the very way they feel about themselves, the way they feel about each other. This is the way to go. We clean the estero and we have a much happier and fulfilled life,” Lopez stressed.

The long-term crusade for cleaner waterways in Metro Manila will go full blast in the upcoming “09.30.2012 Run, Ride & Roll for the Pasig River” to be held at the Quezon City Memorial Circle on Sunday (Sept 30). Over 80,000 participants are expected to show up and take part in the advocacy event that will fund the rehabilitation of esteros in Quezon City.

“The Quezon City experience is really important because it sets the template for other cities. Unless local government units take on the cleaning of the esteros, it’s not going to happen,” said Lopez.

KBPIP has a track record of organizing three successful runs, namely the 2009 Philippine International Marathon: A Run for the Pasig River with an estimated 23,000 participants, the historic 10.10.10 Run for the Pasig River that broke the Guinness World Record for the “most participants in a racing event” with 116,087 runners, and last year’s 11.20.2011 Run for the Pasig River was the largest foot race joined by 86,547 runners.

The 10.10.10 Run for the Pasig River won a Bronze Anvil and an Award of Excellence at the 45th Anvil Awards given by the Public Relations Society of the Philippines, while the Estero de Paco clean-up earned an Award of Merit from the 2010 Philippine Quill Awards given by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Philippines.

Registration for the 09.30.2012 Run for the Pasig River is ongoing at SM North EDSA, SM Megamall, SM Mall of Asia, R.O.X, Chris Sports Festival Mall and Chris Sports Glorietta. Registration is until Saturday (Sept 29). Aside from the registration, there will also be merchandise available in the SM booths, in which part of the proceeds will also go to the river rehabilitation.

For updates on this advocacy run - 

visit www.runforthepasigriver.com 

like www.facebook.com/runforthepasigriver 

follow @run4pasigriver on Twitter

Photos by : Faizza Tangol, ABS-CBN Foundation Inc.