BPI employee-driven volunteer program

MANILA, Philippines - Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) is celebrating its 160th anniversary with a unique employee-driven volunteer program. Billed as BPI BAYAN (Bayanihan Para sa Inang Bayan), the program involves employees and officers giving back to communities that have nurtured BPI through the years by way of projects specifically designed for them. Volunteers from non-life subsidiary BPI/MS headed by its president Takaaki Ueda will be assisting the Boys Town Orphanage by addressing basic personal needs, sports, feeding programs, a livelihood program, academic as well as physical, mental, emotional and spiritual needs, and instill proper values to help them face the challenges once outside Boys Town. In Malabon, indigent women, mothers and housewives of Barangay Ibaba were introduced to a four-month program “Basura, Pera at Iwas Baha Pa, Let’s Make it easy for MISIS” which includes the monitoring on implementation waste reduction, segregation and weekly coordination with members of KKM (Kayang Kaya ni Misis Association). Other activities launched Aug. 6 were the adoption of day care centers in Pampanga depressed areas, regular clean-up of Siliman Beach in Dumaguete, gift giving to pediatric cancer patients and skills training/psychosocial program for parents of the cancer patients in Davao.