Caritas Manila Inc., Makati Garden Club together World Flower Council Join Hands to Present "Nature & Fashion with Compassion" Charity Event

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In observance of National Children's Month, a group of women has joined forces to address the rising threat of online violence against Filipino children. A recent inter-agency study reveals that over 13% of children, more than 1 in 10, are at risk of online sexual exploitation, yet awareness remains shockingly low.

"Nature & Fashion with Compassion" is more than just a charity event but a powerful initiative to raise awareness and support the vulnerable children. This event is scheduled this November 12, 2023 at Mayuree Ballroom of Dusit Thani Manila. This is in a collaboration between World Flower Council and Makati Garden Club, Caritas Manila Inc. as the benefactor.

Key Highlights:

1. Floral Demonstration (Hope and Healing in Bloom) : Educational advocacy-International guest artists will showcase their unique floral creativity from 8:00 am to 11:00 am.

2. Protecting Children from Online Violence Community Forum: Invited Guest Speakers will share their expertise to spread awareness about these issues. 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

3. Evening Fashion Show(Nature & Fashion with Compassion): A collaboration of compassionate artists to showcase their talents that will blend nature’s beauty and fashion for a cause.

This charity event supports Caritas Manila's Restorative Justice Program, focusing on Women and Children’s protection against online violence and human trafficking.

We encourage you to contribute to this worthy project for a cause. Feel free to call Ms. Rye Zotomayor of Caritas Manila all your donations and further information at partnerships_events@caritasmanila.org.ph for

Caritas Manila Inc.: A non-profit organization committed to helping vulnerable communities in the Philippines.

Makati Garden Club: A non-profit, prestigious organization promoting horticulture and community welfare.

World Flower Council: An international organization celebrating the beauty of flowers and nurturing global communities.

‘Tis the season of gift-giving: Home Credit’s ultimate gift guide this holiday season

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Enjoy a 0% interest installment offer on gadgets, laptops, and home appliances for the perfect presents for your loved ones this festive time of the year!

The holiday season is fast approaching and with it the comes the time to find the perfect gifts for your loved ones. It might be the most wonderful time of the year, but going through a ton of choices while keeping within a certain budget is one of the challenges that most grapple with during this season.

Luckily, Home Credit, the leading consumer finance company, is here to make your holiday season merrier as it now offers 0% interest on different installment options across a wide range of products. This means you can now give your loved ones the best presents during this festive time of the year without breaking the bank, just as shared in this video.

If you are wondering about the perfect gifts you can get with Home Credit, here are the top ideas you can consider:

Excellent everyday gadget companions

As technology is now an important part of our daily lives, gadgets make excellent presents this holiday season. With reliable or powerful features, these devices can serve as your loved ones' everyday companions, providing them with essential tools to stay connected, increase their productivity, and improve their entertainment.

If you are looking for perfect devices for your loved ones, Home Credit offers a range of options you can consider. You can surprise your loved ones with smartphones equipped with excellent cameras and high-performing specifications, all wrapped in long-lasting and stylish designs, such as iPhone 11 and Realme 11 Pro Plus 5G.

For more versatile gadgets that can seamlessly handle your loved ones’ work and play, tablets are the best option. By gifting the likes of Xiaomi Pad 6 and Huawei Matepad 11.5, you can provide a well-rounded experience with its incredible features, enabling your loved ones to excel in their everyday tasks.

Enhance productivity and entertainment with laptops

Laptops offer the power and flexibility to handle a wide range of tasks—be it for work or school. With their powerful features packed into a portable device, you can allow your loved ones this holiday season to be productive anywhere, especially now that we’re embracing a digital lifestyle.

Aside from that, laptops also deliver immersive entertainment experiences with their vibrant displays and powerful processors and graphic cards. This allows your loved ones to enjoy their leisure and relaxation as laptops can cater to various entertainment preferences, such as playing graphically intensive games and streaming shows and movies, among others.

With that in mind, consider gifting your loved ones with laptops that will elevate both their productivity and entertainment experiences. Models like the Acer Nitro 5, Huawei MateBook D15, Apple MacBook Air MGND3PP/A 13", and Asus TUF Gaming F15 are all available through Home Credit, making it easier than ever to get these devices for your loved ones this holiday season.

Enable your loved ones’ lifestyle with home appliances

Home appliances are a thoughtful and practical choice for holiday gifts, as they can significantly enhance the quality of life for your loved ones. They simplify daily routines, provide greater convenience, and even deliver added comfort.

For instance, gifting your loved ones with a new refrigerator not only helps them preserve food more effectively, but also enables them to stay organized, making daily meal preparation and grocery management efficient. An air conditioner, on the other hand, can ensure their comfort especially during the summer. You can also consider giving them a smart TV to elevate their entertainment experience or a washing machine to simplify laundry chores so they can save more time and effort.

With Home Credit, you can turn these ideas into reality by gifting your loved ones with home appliances, such as a Panasonic 9.4 cu ft Two Door Refrigerator, LG 1.0HP Dual Inverter Split Type Air Conditioner, Devant Ultra HD Smart TV 43", and Sharp 8.0kg Black Top Load Fully Automatic Washing Machine.

So, what are you waiting for? Take advantage of Home Credit’s 0% interest installment offer now to provide your loved ones with the perfect presents this holiday season. Start shopping with Home Credit today and make this festive time of the year truly special!

To know more about Home Credit Philippines’ latest updates, visit its official website, www.homecredit.ph. You may also follow its official Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok accounts. Customers are also encouraged to download the My Home Credit App on Google Play to learn more about the latest promos and see what’s new in shoppingmall.ph.

Home Credit Philippines is a financing company duly licensed and supervised by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP).

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About Home Credit

Home Credit Philippines is the lifestyle partner of every Filipino, providing access to credit through fast, convenient, and affordable financing in more than 15,000 partner stores nationwide. The brand offers a wide range of products from smartphones and laptops, home appliances and furniture, bicycles, and motorcycle accessories to electronics and hardware, sports equipment, and many more – offered at low or 0% interest rates in easy monthly installments.

In its 10th year in the Philippines, Home Credit has served over 10 million Filipinos. Beyond installment financing and related insurance services, Home Credit also offers cash loans, a virtual spending limit named Qwarta, and a credit card for its existing qualified customers. With the My Home Credit app, Filipino customers are just a click away to get the products they want for an elevated lifestyle.

More information on HCPH is available at www.homecredit.ph.

From SafetyWing, remote health for your remote team

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At present, the remote work is on the rise. working remotely is only now becoming mainstream. People sait It's the new normal. Remote work (also known as work from home [WFH] or telecommuting) is a type of flexible working arrangement that allows an employee to work from remote location outside of corporate offices.

Some companies and organizations settled into a work-from-home routine said, it took time as they set up systems to enable remote work. Is it better to work onsite or remotely? Working remotely exposes you to fewer distractions than you may encounter when working in the office or at another onsite location.

While having the ability to work from outside of a corporate office has been feasible. Some people extol the flexibility of their lifestyles and the benefits that they’ve seen in their professional lives because they can work remotely.

There are advantages and disadvantages of remote working for employees.

• Teamwork and leadership can be a little bit more challenging.
• Remote workers reported stable or increased productivity while working remotely compared to in an office,
• On the employees' side, greater sense of comfort and better work-life balance lead to less stress.
• Flexibility, on time and place event not just on their home.
• Cost savings, both for the employees and company.

With employees potentially working from anywhere, companies need to be prepared to insure them everywhere. Remote workers’ insurance covers health, and accidents during the workday in their remote work.

SafetyWing offers Insurance for remote teams

SafetyWing provides travel medical and health insurance for nomads and remote companies worldwide.

Remote Health is a global health insurance to cover your employees and contractors worldwide under one plan, regardless of where they live.

Remote Health provides worldwide coverage. All are also covered while they travel. Travel can be for any reason, business or pleasure.

Health insurance for remote teams + platforms

• A fully equipped health insurance, designed for your global workforce
• From $80/ month, per member
• Add your team to the same plan, regardless of location. 
• Remote Health insurance works globally, so you can hire the best talent in the world.
• Dynamic like your team
• Add and remove team members at any time. Whether they are on a full-time salary, a part time contract or somewhere in between.
• Support you can rely on
• Your team gets dedicated 24/7 support from day one. In your time of need, you should never have to wait on hold.
• Premium health insurance that works in every country across the world
• 175+ countries covered as main residence.

SafetyWing is simple and flexible

• Easy to use website
• A simple overview of your company’s insurance details and your covered members.
• Lower price and extra benefits as your number of members grows.
• Customizable add-ons
• Optional coverage for things like dental, maternity, screenings and vaccinations to ensure that you have the perfect insurance for your company.

Visit the website and you can find the most up-to-date versions of all SafetyWing insurance policies here.

DOH, Galing Pook Foundation hold 2023 Healthy Pilipinas Awards honoring exemplary contributions in health promotion

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Following the continuous success of the Healthy Pilipinas campaign, the Department of Health (DOH), recognized partner organizations for their continued support and promotion of healthy lifestyles among Filipinos, through the Healthy Pilipinas Awards for Partners held on October 27, 2023 at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City.

 

Co-presented with Galing Pook Foundation, the Healthy Pilipinas Awards for Partners 2023 celebrated unwavering efforts in building a healthier Philippines, across different areas including Healthy Governance, which recognizes efforts to implement policy, legislative, and research agendas promoting healthy behaviors; Healthy Settings, as determined by interventions that lead to healthy communities, learning institutions, and workplaces; Health Literacy, encompassing social and behavior change communication interventions; and lastly, Citizenship, which recognizes excellence in participatory governance, yielding a positive impacts and empowering communities.

 

Awardees in the event include National Government Agencies, development partners, private sector partners, and civil society organizations, with awards categorized according to the seven priority areas defined in the DOH Health Promotion Framework Strategy (HPFS), namely: Nutrition and Physical Activity, Environmental Health, Vaccine and Immunization, Substance Control, Mental Health, Sexual and Reproductive Health, and Violence and Injury Prevention.

 

Additionally, the criteria for determining awardees included reach, community empowerment, impact, scalability, sustainability, and innovation. Partners who scored 60% or higher in each category were awarded. Partners winning one category bagged Bronze Awards, winning two categories yielded Silver Awards, and awardees acing three categories received Gold Awards.

 

Through this ceremony, the DOH aims to strengthen collaboration with partners in implementing the HPFS by featuring initiatives that have already been implemented, and linking their proponents with Centers for Health Development and Regional Health Promotion Units for possible partnerships.

 

During the Ceremony, the Galing Pook Foundation also recognized the Citizenship Awardees and committed to facilitate the replication and scaling up of the health promotions initiatives of the Healthy Pilipinas awardees through their SPACES project supported by the Australian Government in partnership with Oxfam Pilipinas, Agrea, ISEA and PRESENT coalition. This project supports a whole of society approach in promoting health seeking behavior and improving social determinants of health.

 

“DOH has continued to work closely with its partners in creating, evaluating, and improving health promotion policies and programs in different localities, with the mission of instituting positive changes and uplifting the lives of Filipino communities. The Healthy Pilipinas Awards for Partners cements this goal and puts the spotlight on the initiatives that have been implemented by national government agencies, private sectors, development partners, and civil society organizations who have all been dedicated to adding their own colors to this dynamic fabric of promoting health for all Filipinos,” said Secretary Teodoro J. Herbosa.

To learn more about the 7 Healthy Habits, and other upcoming Healthy Pilipinas initiatives, you may visit healthypilipinas.ph.

 

HONOR opens in the all-new SM City Sto. Tomas Batangas, aims to dominate South

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Much to the delight of Batangueños on the unveiling of the all-new SM City Sto. Tomas Batangas, the leading smart devices provider HONOR Philippines also officially welcomed shoppers to its newest Experience Store in the said mall, located at the 2/F Cyberzone.

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The newest HONOR Experience Store is in the all-new SM City Sto. Tomas Batangas and is expected to open stores in SM City Dasmariñas Cavite and SM City San Pablo Laguna.

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HONOR Philippines GTM Manager Steven Yan with Greentelcom Chief Operating Officer

Ma. Theresa Luna and HONOR Philippines Retail Sales Director Tom Yuan

“It is really an honor to unveil our newest HONOR Experience Store the same time the much-anticipated SM City Sto. Tomas Batangas opened. This is part of our promise to continuously service our HONOR fans and tech enthusiasts alike and we are very far from what we have envisioned for the country,” said HONOR Philippines Vice President Stephen Cheng.

The successful store opening was officiated by HONOR Philippines GTM Manager Steven Yan and HONOR Philippines Retail Sales Director Tom Yuan together with Greentelcom Chief Operating Officer Ma. Theresa Luna and President Edwin Luna.

The viral smartphone brand also pledged to dominate the South as Experience Stores in SM City Dasmarinas Cavite and SM City San Pablo Laguna is soon to open.

The Unstoppable Trio: HONOR X9a 5G, HONOR 90 5G, HONOR 90 Lite 5G

Who would forget the HONOR X9a 5G that catapulted the brand into virality, with its industry-leading ultra-tough OLED curved display that was put to test through various means, including smash and drop challenges. HONOR X9a 5G is still available at Php 16,990 in Titanium Silver, Emerald Green, and Midnight Black.

HONOR 90 5G, beyond its 200 MP Flagship camera performance, also has one of the most advanced high-frequency Pulse Width Modulation dimming technology at 3840 Hz, which greatly helps with lessening eye strains with long periods of phone usage. Available in three colors – Diamond Silver, Emerald Green, and Midnight Black, HONOR 90 5G is priced at Php 24,990.

Last but definitely not the least, the HONOR 90 Lite 5G – the newest HONOR iteration still packs a wide array of specs that other competitors unusually carry within the same price range. Apart from its 100 MP Camera system, which allows for ultra clear photography, this phone packs 8GB + 256GB Super Storage, and a 4500 mAh battery that can last for up to two days. HONOR 90 Lite 5G is priced at Php 12,990 and available in Cyan Lake and Midnight Black.

For more announcements, you may visit HONOR’s website www.hihonor.com or social media platforms: Facebook (Facebook.com/HonorPhilippines), Instagram (Instagram.com/honorphilippines/) and TikTok: (Tiktok.com/@honorphilippines). To check out HONOR’s complete list of retail stores, go to https://www.hihonor.com/ph/retailers/.