In an effort to show support and assistance in this time of need, telecoms and digital services provider PLDT Inc. and the Makati Medical Center Foundation have provided decontamination services and care packages containing hygiene and food items to COVID-19 hospitals and their health workers.
With over 50 years of championing Filipinas, Kotex remains steadfast in empowering women to face challenges head on. With its assistance to women in need and heroic frontliners, the brand hopes that it helps in the growing call for support and addresses women’s needs in today’s health crisis.
On Labor Day, an army of Filipino photographers have come together to launch an initiative that aims to support each other in this time of need. Shelter Fund collects an impressive roster of working photographers–from portrait, celebrity, commercial, conceptual, landscape, and street–who are all affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the government-mandated quarantine, and are also in the face of uncertainty with life in the new normal.
In a bid to support local agriculture in this time of adversity, The Department of Tourism (DOT), in partnership with leading retail group Stores Specialists Inc. (SSI), mounted the online leg of the Philippine Harvest trade fair last April 22, 2020.
As the country continues to struggle in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, One Meralco Foundation (OMF), the Manila Electric Company’s (MERALCO) social development arm, has mobilized to help thousands of homeless families and frontline medical personnel heavily impacted by the health crisis and the current enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) imposed on Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon.
Southeast Asia’s leading super app, Grab, continues to offer ways to serve the everyday essential needs of Filipinos in this time of uncertainty through the launch of GrabMart. With the limitations and restrictions due to the COVID-19 situation, Grab has provided a solution that will make acquiring of basic necessities easier despite the enhanced community quarantine.
The Filipino-made dengue case forecasting system utilizing space data made by homegrown developers won the 2019 National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s International Space Apps Challenge.
In response to the needs of communities affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, Ortigas Land has mounted the fund drive,#TogetherWeGive, that seeks to mobilize its personnel to share and pool together resources dedicated for COVID-19 relief efforts.
Online classifieds marketplace in the Philippines, Carousell, leads the charge in recognizing the challenges brought about during these very critical times with established proactive measures to provide aid to both the medical and business sectors.
In response to the rising number of confirmed cases due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, leading software solutions company Multisys Technologies Corporation recently launched a community-driven social distancing system through an emergency response website called StaySafe.ph.
