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STAR helps sustain sari-sari stores and empower women entrepreneurs

The life of Carmelita Aspiras, a scholar of the Coca-Cola Philippines’ Sari-Sari Store Training and Access to Resources (STAR) Program, is a testimony to the many empowering and life-changing aspects of the initiative. Aspiras was...

Citihub transforms container vans into affordable low-cost homes

The lack of decent affordable housing for young working males in Metro Manila is a big problem. Not everyone can afford to live in the countless condominiums that have sprouted all over. Apartments and...

20 Inspiring Filipina Entrepreneurs

As the world celebrates International Women’s Day, GoodNewsPilipinas salutes Filipina entrepreneurs who have inspired business communities and the families in affirming the work-life balance for women is possible in the Philippines. We present these 20...

CHEERS saves and nourishes lives

“Innovation is essential to business.” This has always been the principle Alvin Montano, CHEERS President has gone by even when he helped establish the emergency medical training company in 2008. CHEERS, which stands for Community Health...

Balangay’s Best: Ushering in a Sea Change with Artisanal Fishing

Fisherfolk are among the most disadvantaged sectors in Philippine society. Slaves to the weather and the dictates of fish traders, fisherfolk often live a hand-to mouth existence. But Balangay’s Best is helping change the fortunes...

Bagosphere provides training for outsourcing industry with study now, pay later program

At the age of 17, Maritess de la Peña had to drop out of college and leave Negros Occidental to work as a kasambahay (housekeeper) in Metro Manila. She did not want to, but De...

ART ‘N’ Nature’s Inday Genius does business with a heart

The woman was clearly from a remote mountain village; her dress and demeanor gave her away. She was nursing a child and crying as she narrated how a middleman had shortchanged her.

How to Keep the Iconic Jeepney on the road

Metro Manila residents may have started to believe that heavy traffic is the new normal and they will just have to learn to live with it. But not Yuri Sarmiento, President of 1-TEAM, or 1-Transport...
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Outstanding student shares advice to the youth

John Paul Uminga is one of the four Filipino representatives chosen and sent to the United States for the US State Department-sponsored Professional Fellowship Program for economic development track.
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