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SMFI Livelihood & Outreach Programs It started as a “mall-based” project in 1996. It grew from the expressed wish of people to donate to the many, already on-going projects of SM Foundation, the SM group’s corporate social responsibility arm. Today, the SMFI Livelihood & Outreach...

Recalling made the tears threaten to fall down her cheeks. Thirty years across nine barangays with ill-equipped, rundown health centers made midwife Tarita Anne Ballesteros flushed and teary with appreciation at the newly-renovated rural health center in Brgy. District 1 in Cauayan, Isabela. A...

“An SM Foundation school building is more than just a structure with four walls. It is an edifice of hope for the youth, a place that brings them one step closer to achieving a brighter future.” SM Foundation’s School Building Program donated its first...

Portrait of an SM Foundation Scholar Politics, a natural calamity, and continuing peace and order problems shaped the first six months of the Philippines in 2002. Manila, the country’s seat of power, still rippled with the after-effects of the 2nd People Power Revolution that...

“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”—Warren Buffet Forty years ago, in 1983, the late visionary business leader and philanthropist Henry Sy, Sr. lovingly called “Tatang” by his family and those he employed, established the SM...

Citing provisions on equality in employment and occupation agreed upon in the recently concluded International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention 111 in Geneva, Switzerland, the Federation of Free Workers (FFW) called for the acceptance of Afghan refugees in the Philippines. “Despite opposition of Vice President...