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Traders
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Traders Hotel
Manila, in collaboration with the Pasay City
Barangay Action Center, carried out a free
medical mission to the less fortunate children
of Pasay City.
“Safeguarding the health and emotional
well-being of the underprivileged children is in
line with the Traders Hotel Manila corporate
social responsibility, said Andrea Mastellone.
“Shangri-la Hotels and Resorts, Asia Pacific’s
leading luxury hotel group, is constantly
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in improving
the quality of life for the employees, their
families and the local community and the
populace.
Five medical volunteers, professionally trained
in all aspect of medicine provided the children,
with thorough health check-ups and appropriate
medicines.
The children and their parents numbering 300,
were also treated to a day of fun with art
activities, games and a nice meal. |
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Traders Hotel
GM Andrea Mastellone with the beneficiaries of
the medical mission
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Hapinoy
Stores On the Roll:
Empowering the Filipino Microentrepreneur
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In
line with its vision to enable Filipino
micro entrepreneurs, Smart
Communications, Inc. (SMART) has
partnered with Microventure, Inc. on its
first microventure, Hapinoy, a project
instituted to increase the sales and
profits of microentrepreneur sarisari
store owners nationwide.
Hapinoy Stores are branded sari-sari
stores owned and run by
microentrepreneurs, supported by the
microfinance Council of the Philippines.
The pilot is ongoing in South Luzon,
initially targeting 8,000 Hapinoy Stores
by year end. Starting with the
microborrowers of the Center for
Agriculture and Rural Development , Inc
(CARD) the largest microfinancing
institution in the Philippines.
Microventures is also presently talking
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Under
the project, Hapinoy Stores will now
offer enhanced SMART products and
services including e-load services and
SMART Money transactions. Selected
Hapinoy stores will also offer Public
Calling Phones and Smart Bro Internet
Kiosks and Cafes.
“The Smart Hapinoy Store project serves
as a vehicle for opening new sustainable
business opportunities for Filipino
microentrepreneurs. The SMART Hapinoy
Store will benefit both the store owners
and the local community. For store
owners, its a sure source of additional
sales, while for SMART subscribers in
the community, it means easier access to
leading cutting edge SMART products and
services,” said Danilo J. Mojica, SMART
head for wireless consumer division.
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From Oil
Spill to Cement
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Occurring without warning, the worst
thing about oil spills is that they
leave wastes which are harmful to humans
and the environment. Fortunately,
innovative technologies developed by the
cement industry have enabled Holcim to
respond to disasters when the need
arises.
When the oil tanker Erika was
shipwrecked off the coast of France in
1999, spilling thousands of tons of oil
that washed ashore onto the beaches of
Brittany, Holcim France Benelux helped
dispose of the recovered waste by co-processing
the sludge as alternative fuel in its
cement kilns.
The cement manufacturer provided a
sustainable waste
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Holcim uses
oil-soaked sludge as alternative
fuel
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recovery solution to the disaster
which involved 300,000 tons of waste.
“Co-processing is a method by which
alternative fuels and raw materials (AFR)
are used in cement kilns in place of
fossil fuels,” Ernett Paredes said. “The
process is used by the cement industry
as an environmentally friendly
aternative and efficient form of waste
disposal,” he added.
Closer to home, in last year’s Guimaras
oil spill, Holcim Philippines offered a
sustainable and environmentally sound
solution to the debris disposal problem.
Five thousand metric tons of
oil-contaminated debris collected off
the island’s shorelines were transported
to Holcim’s cement plant in Lugait,
Misamis Oriental and safely disposed in
its kiln to fuel the manufacture of
cement.
Guimaras’s oil-covered debris composed
of sand, tree branches, leaves and other
materials. “The high temperature process
(2,000°C), ensures the complete
combustion of waste material,” Paredes
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French
Companies
Invade Agrilink |
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The Embassy of
France and Le Club–French Chamber of Commerce
with the support of the UBI-FRANCE French
government agency in charge of international
business development recently hosted a cocktail
reception for the Agrilink-Foodlink 2007.
Now on its 14th year, the Agrilink is the
country’s premier agribusiness trade exhibition
staged at the World Trade Center last October 4
to 6, featured modern and innovative
technologies in the agriculture industry.
Participating companies include: Bayle SA:
manufactures of slaughtering equipment for the
poultry processing industry; C-Lines: specialist
in poultry housing; Grimaud Frères Sélection:
specialist in genealogical genetic selection,
the reproduction and the marketing of healthy
animals; IMV Technologies: for the improvement
of species and the preservation of our genetic
heritage; Labaronne Citaf: exclusive
manufacturer of collapsible tanks, offering a
complete range of tanks to store liquids up to
400 cubic meters; Le Cellier: dedicated to the
importation and distribution of French wines in
the Philippines; Le Triangle International:
offers a wide range of static buildings for the
poultry and livestock sectors, designed
according to the climate; Pal Industries:
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manufacturers
of feeding and watering systems
for poultry and swine in the world; Pamora: a
Filipino-European joint-venture operating a
free-range chicken farm using the SASSO
free-range chicken breed from France. Pamora
Farm also manufactures the French traditional
“homemade” pâtés; Richel: the leading European
manufacturer of plastic greenhouses; Sasso:
selecting strains able to produce a high
standard poultry, easily recognizable by
consumers, and economically profitable; Sepalm:
a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sasso with its own
breeding centers, hatcheries, producers
associations, feedmills and processing plant
specializing in duck & goose breeds; Solraya:
breeder and distributor of Solraya’s Sunshine
Free-Ranged Chicken; Space: the biggest European
Stockbreeding and Livestock Trade Show. Tios
Consulting: assisting companies wishing to
penetrate the international market; Total: the
fourth largest publicly-traded integrated oil
and gas company in the world; Vétoquinol: a
family-owned, independent company exclusively
devoted to improving animal health, encompassing
research and development, manufacturing,
marketing and sales. (Katrina N. Cabanos) |
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Assumption Bazzar Set in November
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The Assumption
Alumnae Association will
hold the annual Assumption
Bazaar on November 25, 9am to
7pm at the Grand Ballroom of the
Hotel InteContinental. More than
a hundred concessionaires and
alumnaei who personally design
and sell one-of-a-kind items
would be putting up shop to
raise scholarship funds for
various Assumption Mission
Schools. Aside from Assumpta
Technical School in San Simon,
Pampanga and San Juan Nepomuceno
School in Malibay, Pasay, the
other schools are located in
Baguio, Passi-Iloilo, San Jose
in Antique, Cagayan de Oro,
Kibangay in Bukidnon and
Kauwagan in Lanao del Norte.
These schools have been set up
to provide basic education for
the less privileged children.
The school-beneficiaries would
also sell special food items and
indigenous products made by the
sisters and members the
livelihood project.
For more information, call
(02)894-3561. |
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Deutsche Schule Manila Celebrates German
Unity Day
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There is more to
the month of October than just
Oktoberfest. Deutsche Schule
Manila (DSM) recently celebrated
German Unity Day during the
German month of October with
“Project Germany”, a
walk-through of Germany’s
history which includes life in
the former East and West
Germany.
Students made a replica of the
Berlin Wall that was built in
1961 to separate East Germany
from West Germany during the
Cold War. A reenactment of the
difference in lifestyles of the
youth between the two former
countries was performed by the
German School students in order
to demonstrate how life was
during those times. The
celebration enabled the DSM
students to hear of the accounts
made by contemporary witnesses
as they recalled the events that
led to the Fall of the Berlin
Wall. |
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