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Tag: advocacy

  • Lily Cole campaigns for The Body Shop “Beauty With Heart”

    LONDON, United Kingdom – The Body Shop, one of the 21st Century’s most iconic and pioneering Brands, today launched a new beauty movement – called Beauty With Heart – that will inspire individuals everywhere and transform the boundaries of beauty.

  • Blog Action Day for Peace: September 2011

    This September 2011 the international community comes together to celebrate PEACE MONTH with the culmination on September 21, 2011, the International Day of Peace. In the Philippines the celebration is being spearheaded by PeaceTech and everyone is invited to unite and help promote the use of technology for peace.

  • Change your Facebook profile picture to a cartoon from your childhood to support the campaign against violence on children

    If you logged into Facebook recently you will surely notice a surge of profile pictures featuring cartoon characters. I tried my best to trace the originator of the campaign, but the earliest information that I found so far was a blog post on momento24. Apparently, the following is the original text of the campaign: November…

  • 5 things that everyone can do to preserve water

    Until fairly recently, I had no idea how huge the water crisis was. Water is abundant in nature. It covers 70% of the Earth’s surface, is vital to all living things. The problem is that only 3% of this can be used to sustain humans, the remaining 97% being nothing but saltwater.

  • Tip the waiter not the beggar (Entry for Blog Action Day 2008: Poverty)

    One of the most interesting things that happened during my stay in Jacksonville, Florida was when I gave alms to a panhandler / beggar. What made this experience unique was the fact that I am a visitor from a third world country, the Philippines, and there I was giving alms to somebody from the first…

  • I AM NINOY – The Filipino Youth

    Taken from the iamninoy website: Twenty-five years ago, a man named Ninoy Aquino fought nobly for a cause he believed in. He was a man who believed in heroism, in justice, in freedom, and he committed his life to upholding these values in a manner he thought would be for the greater good. This man…

  • E-Support for Gov. Ed Panlilio

    Got this in my mailbox today. Corruption here in the Philippines is really getting out of hand. Dear Fellow Filipinos, Good day to you! Last October 13 , Governor Ed Panlilio of Pampanga came out to declare that he was given P 500,000.00 in cash which came from a Palace Staff Member in Malacañang. The…