RUN FOR A SCHOLAR BY AMERICAN CHAMBER FOUNDATION AND CHEVRON

Join the first (1st) AmCham Run for Scholar on May 27, 2012 at the Bonifacio global City. The event will include 3k, 5k and 10k distances. This charity run will benefit the AmCham foundation scholarship program.

The AmCham Foundation and Chevron Phils. Inc. is inviting everyone to join!

It is a friendly race that involves running on a measured course over an established road at 9th Avenue, Bonifacio Global City. The purpose of the charity run is to raise funds for scholarship programs. The event will include 3K, 5K, and 10K distances.

AmCham member companies who can send many runners will be rewarded. Please be sure that the employees will be properly identified by wearing the company name or logo. This is also open to all individuals or other enthusiasts that may belong to other association or organization. They expect participants to take part for their own enjoyment rather than competition.

They welcome donations of products that we could distribute to the participants. Exposure as a sponsor will be throughout the marketing of the event. For more info on the sponsorship and how to register you can contact Candy Angeles-Gabriel at 834-0184/728-9208 or e-mail at candy@amchamphilippines.com

Everyone is welcome to participate.

Registration Period: April 13 to May 20, 2012

Registration Centers: 

1. AmCham Foundation Office 
2. Chris Sports Branches 

• (Festivall Mall
•  Alabang
•  Glorietta 3
•  Market! Market!
•  SM Megamall
•  SM City Manila 
•  SM North The Annex

Assembly Time: 5:00am at 9th Ave. cor 26th Street, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, Philippines

Click here to download a copy of the REGISTRATION FORM

Click here to download a copy of the GROUP REGISTRATION SHEET

FREE RIDES,SKATES, GAMES AT VISUAL MUSIC CARNIVAL

Are you aware that according to statistics there are around four (4) million deaf people in the Philippines alone? And only around one hundred cast their votes during the last election? I hope the government supports them in their quest for public Video Relay Service (VRS)  to be provided in public areas. NOT everyone is aware of the plight of our comrades in the deaf community. I believe that our brothers and sisters who are deaf should have equal chances with everyone and a public Video Relay Service (VRS) will help them a lot.

Do you have Php 150 to spare? I am knocking on your heart please. Yes, I am calling on everyone, please support a carnival-themed fundraising event for the deaf come May 12, 2012 entitled Visual Music Carnival (VMC).  It will be an exciting event packed with fun-filled activities and performances bundled together with the most awesome rock bands in the Philippine music industry. Ms. Bernadette Herrera and her Bagong Henerasyon campaign support this event. This is a truly remarkable endeavor for our hearing and speaking impaired friends.

This charity event will help the Telecommunication Service Network for the Deaf (TSND) Inc., to raise funds to buy at least 5 (five) units of Video Relay Service (VRS) that will help deaf people here in the Philippines.  

ABOUT VISUAL MUSIC CARNIVAL


The Visual Music Carnival is a celebration of music, visual arts and extreme sports with a direct cause. It is a fundraising event aimed to provide support to the projects of the Telecommunication Service Network for the Deaf (TSND) Incorporated. Part of the goal is to support the TSND’s public VRS station installation project in communities with a high volume of hearing impaired residents. This will be held annually in venues such as stadiums or fields upon which the stages and other structures are erected.

ABOUT VIDEO RELAY SERVICE


Video Relay Service is an internet powered service that helps deaf people call anywhere and anytime hassle free. A VRS booth comes with a V-Pad.

A V-pad is a touch screen videophone with a camera; it will be bolted in to a wall just like public pay phones. Where in there will be a sign language interpreter on standby during service hours.

To simplify, it’s a videophone with a built-in interpreter that will make the calls for the deaf caller.

Telecommunication Service Network for the Deaf (TSND) Inc., plans on installing these Public VRS stations in different public and private schools within Metro Manila with the most number of deaf students such as:

• Philippine School for the Deaf
• Lagro High School
• Miriam College-Southeast Asian Institute for the Deaf
• De La Salle-College of St. Benilde
• and a whole lot more.

What:    Visual Music Carnival (VMC)

When:   May 12, 2012 from 12NN to 12MN

Where:  Amoranto Stadium grounds in Quezon City

Tickets are being distributed through SM Tickets and can be purchased for only PHP150 with tons of freebies such as rides, game tokens and skate plays. Activities such as jumpers, outdoor rides and carnival games and other thrilling activities, mind blowing games, band performance, battle of the bands, photo booths, skateboard exhibition demonstrations, playgrounds, cosplay competition.

For more information, please visit www.vmcarnival.com

For contest and exhibitor inquiries, please contact: vmcarnival@gmail.com

For battle of the bands inquiries, please contact: royalteatime@gmail.com

For cosplay contest inquiries, please contact: cosplay@animealliance.asia

For media and other inquiries, please contact:

Futomi Nomura AAP-VMC Team Lead M: +63 9064052235 E: futomi.nomura@animealliance.asia	Tessa Villareal Anime Alliance Marketing Specialist M: +63 9277158160 E: tessa.villareal@animealliance.asia
Katherine Barrameda Anime Alliance Coordinating Manager M: +63 9261530548 E: kat.barrameda@animealliance.asia	Patrick Alvin Cham Anime Alliance Marketing Specialist M: +63 9165512650 E: patrick.cham@animealliance.asia
David Michael Ramas Anime Alliance Operating Manager M: +1 9083422948 E: michael.ramas@animealliance.asia	Katt Taylor Event Organizer – Visual Music Carnival M: +63 949678736 E: vmcarnival@gmail.com

Unilever donates Php 400,000 to United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)

UFS, WFP join hands to boost school meals for 40,000 students in Central Mindanao

MANILA – Through its innovative “Sandwich Heroes” campaign, Unilever Food Solutions, a subsidiary of Unilever, has raised Php 400,000 in the Philippines for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). The donation will allow WFP to feed 40,000 children under its school meals programme in conflict-affected areas of Central Mindanao, particularly in Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur and Lanao del Norte.

“We are very grateful to Unilever for its longstanding partnership with WFP in the Philippines, including its latest creative efforts to help raise awareness of the issue of hunger in the country,” said WFP Philippines Representative and Country Director Stephen Anderson.

“The funds Unilever has donated will help WFP and its government counterparts, the Department of Social Welfare and Development and the Department of Education, provide hot nutritious meals for children in remote, conflict-affected areas.”      

Thirteen restaurants took part in Unilever Food Solution’s pioneering project, which involved each restaurant offering their signature or best sandwiches for the campaign. Unilever Food Solutions made a donation to WFP for each featured sandwich sold from October 2011 to January 2012.     

Bigg’s Diner, Cibo, The Coffee Experience, CoffeeBreak, Figaro, HotShots, JD Bakeshop, KFC, Mushroomburger, The Flying Pig, Holy Cow, The Sandwich Guy and Wham! Burgers all participated in the campaign.

“We’d like to thank our partner establishments for making our ‘Sandwich Heroes’ initiative a great success. We’re very proud to help feed 40,000 children in Central Mindanao,” said Unilever Food Solutions Managing Director Pinky Laurena.

“While this is just a pilot programme, what we already achieved here in the Philippines has caught the attention of other Unilever offices globally. Now, the Philippines effort has become an example for other countries to emulate, so we’re planning to expand this ‘Sandwich Heroes’ campaign this year,” she added.   

Unilever has contributed to WFP and its fight against hunger in the Philippines since 2008. Globally, Unilever has been a WFP corporate partner since December 2006, donating a total of US$17.7 million to support WFP’s work around the world.

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About WFP

WFP is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.  Each year, on average, WFP feeds more than 90 million people in more than 70 countries.

WFP now provides RSS feeds to help journalists keep up with the latest press releases, videos and photos as they are published on WFP.org. For more details see: http://www.wfp.org/rss.

Twitter: @wfp_asia and @wfp_philippines and @wfp_media

Facebook: WFP Philippines

About Unilever and Unilever Food Solutions

Unilever works to create a better future every day. We help people feel good, look good and get more out of life with brands and services that are good for them and good for others.

We are one of the world’s leading suppliers of fast moving consumer goods with strong local roots in more than 100 countries. Our portfolio includes some of the world’s best known and most loved brands including eleven €1 billion brands, and global leadership in many categories in which we operate.

Unilever Food Solutions is one of the world's leading foodservice businesses. The business works with customers including caterers, restaurateurs and major hotel and fast-food chains to create food solutions that help grow their business.  

For more information about Unilever and its brands, please visit www.unilever.com .

For more information, please contact:

World Food Programme - Philippines (Email: charlene.tordesillas@wfp.org):

Charlene Tordesillas, WFP/Manila, Tel: +63 2 7502561 Mobile: +639178809368

Unilever Food Solutions (Email: liza.vengco@unilever.com):

Liza Vengco, Unilever Food Solutions, Tel: +63 2 5887342 Mobile: +639088805776

 

Visual Musical Carnival on May 12, 2012

An invitation to a rhythmic revelry for a cause where our Hearing impaired friends will take center stage for a concert that will help the deaf community resonate with their own frequencies.

We appeal to your hearts to please join our deaf comrades takes the spotlight on May 12, 2012.

Funds will be used to support Telecommunications Service Network for the Deaf Chairman George Taylor as he installs the Video Relay Service -- a groundbreaking tech that provides a more convenient interpreting services for hearing impaired communities. 

There will be cosplay contest.