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You can still catch the May 2023 Issue of the Philippines Graphic!

Available at Shopee and Lazada, Philippines Graphic 2023 featuring: SM Foundation: 40 Years of People Helping People o   SM scholars & the pursuit of happiness o   Portrait of an SM Foundation scholar o   Edifices of Hope: SM Foundation school buildings o   Sinag Schools o   SMFI Livelihood & Outreach programs PLUS! NICK...

Labor group endorses P150 Legislated Wage Proposal; calls for prompt action from other regional wage boards

The Federation of Free Workers (FFW) Lauds the First Hearing on Wage Increase in the National Capital Region; Calls for Prompt Action from Other RTWPB Regions and Endorses P150 Legislative Proposal The Federation of Free Workers (FFW) welcomes the first hearing on wage increase...

Uplifting lives and communities for positive change

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...

A Legacy of Health and Wellness

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...

SM Foundation School Buildings: Edifices of Hope

“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...

Q&A with Glenda Galino-Tayongtong

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...

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Workers’ coalition calls on government to extend urgent legal assistance to undocumented Filipinos in the U.S.

This week, leaders of the NAGKAISA Labor Coalition met with representatives from the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) in Manila to discuss, among...

The Heart Wants What It Wants

Such a slim volume but how sharply it connects, the Reader muses, feeling as though a door were creaking open as Annie Ernaux’s “Simple...

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Father the griffin

A year before he died in 2002, a documentary was made on the life and times of national artist for literature Francisco Arcellana, part...