As part of their COVID-19 initiatives under the new normal, Republic Cement, Globe and various other companies stepped up and helped the country through their donations and many CSR initiated projects.
In addition to providing relief aid such as rice and food pack donations, Republic Cement CEO Nabil Francis shared that they have also donated various medical equipment, PPEs, and supported many schools in the community who have a hard time adjusting to distance learning. For Republic Cement, the local cement manufacturing industry can play a key role in the nation’s economic recovery through partnership and camaraderie between sectors.
“Through true partnership between the public and private sectors, we will emerge from this crisis stronger together and ultimately build a safer and stronger Republic,” said Francis.
Meanwhile, telecom giant Globe has partnered with the Department of Education to create the Wifi2Teach Program. Under this program, Globe has donated 1,000 Globe At Home Prepaid WiFi modems to selected public school teachers with connectivity, ensuring that education remains unhampered in the country despite the current global health crisis. In this way, educators across the country have access to fast and reliable internet to help them reach students from a distance. The program is also part of Globe’s contribution to Brigada ng Ayala – Ayala Group of Companies’ group wide participation in the DepEd’s Oplan Balik Eskwela (OBE) and Brigada Eskwela (BE) programs.
“The migration to digital learning poses a lot of challenges for us at DepEd and most especially to public schools and teachers who commonly have limited access to the Internet and online learning tools. With Globe’s WiFi2Teach program, we can gradually address these challenges and help more public educational institutions and teachers to become more adapted to the new normal of remote, online learning for the upcoming academic year,” said DepEd Director Abraham Abanil.
In addition, Globe also empowered its consumers by donating P100 of every purchase of a Globe At Home Prepaid WiFi modem from Globe’s official store on Lazada LazMall to public school teachers.
“WiFi2Teach is designed to assist public school teachers in carrying out their work and duty of teaching students remotely. Like our partners from DepED, we advocate for quality, accessible, and relevant education to help uplift the lives of more Filipinos as we continue accelerating the country’s digital transformation.” said Vice President and Head of Marketing for Globe At Home, Barbie Dapul.
Similarly, Globe had also recently donated homeschool kits to children living in the Baseco Compound. Through hosting a variety of workout classes last September, each Globe Platinum customer was able to provide a backpack full of school supplies and materials to a vulnerable child while at the same time getting a good workout.
They also help hone teachers’ skills through Global Filipino Teachers, which is a series of training sessions that focuses on 21st Century skills needed by teachers most especially in the new normal, including digital literacy and overall capacity-building to maximize the digital tools available to them. By developing educators’ digital literacy, it ensures that the next generation will also be equipped with these skills that will be very useful in the corporate field.
The program involves conducting training of teachers for Psychological First Aid as well as How to be Responsible Online Citizens under the Digital Thumbprint Program (DTP). DTP is an award-winning series of workshops designed to educate learners, parents and educators alike on digital citizenship, online safety, and the responsible use of the internet. Although the internet is a vast web of information, children and even adults can easily fall victim to some online scams and hackers, which only highlights the importance of the program to ensure the safety of students, parents, educators and the community itself from harm.
However, it is not just secondary education students who will be receiving help. The UNIFAST (Unified Financial Assistance System for Tertiary Education Act) board members, led by J. Prospero De Vera III, are also doing their part in helping students get through the new normal.
Through a Tertiary education subsidy, or TES, currently enrolled undergraduate students can finish their program within a span of 4 to 5 years with a one year grace period, as long as they are enrolled in colleges and programs recognized by CHED. The program also covers students who are also PWDs, empowering them and showing them that disabilities are no hindrance in achieving a higher education.
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