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  It’s 100 Days ‘til Christmas and it’s all about caring and giving at SM Supermalls Memories of the festive Christmas season fill our hearts and minds as we usher in celebrating our 2 nd “new normal” holiday season. Things may be a lot different, but SM Supermalls never fails to make it significant and meaningful by #SM100DaysOfCaring with a countdown that kicked off today. The 100 Days of Caring aims to spread love and care for one another that extends towards the surrounding communities of our favorite SM Malls. The virtual event showcasing the pledges happened Thursday, Sept 16, 2021 over FB Live and WatchSM on YouTube.   “100 days of Caring”. To kickstart the Christmas countdown, SM pledged to donate to over 10,000 beneficiaries, namely communities in need, hardworking SM employees, medical frontliners and dedicated delivery partners, among others. Some of the beneficiaries and their partner malls are as follows: SM North EDSA is giving 100 pairs of World Balance...

Watch Cine Europa Films for FREE! Visit cineeuropaph.com to register for your virtual seats now. Cine Europa 24 brings the best of European films to audience worldwide right in the comforts of your home. Now on its 24 th year, Cine Europa is the longest running European film festival in the Philippines. The EU Delegation and the EU Member States Embassies together with Goethe Institut Manila, the Philippine-Italian Association and Instituto Cervantes de Manila are proud to present Cine Europa 24 from 1 to 29 September.   This year’s CE24 festival would be different as we are all following health protocols in this challenging time. CE24 has innovatively turned this challenge as an opportunity to present world class EU films via online screening reaching more Filipino moviegoers than ever. Cine Europa continues to stand proud with its strong partnership with the Film Development Council in the Philippines. There are 17 films from the EU Member States and everyone is invited...

“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” — Maya Angelou   One of the best traits of a Filipino is resiliency, we can easily adopt to the “new normal”. And with the current worldwide state of pandemic, everyone is prompted to stay at home which makes a Filipino home a center of Filipino’s everyday life. For more than a year, most of us are spending more time at home- adults are busy with their WFH set-up while kids are glued to their devices for their education. This has brought many families closer together making it one of the best reasons to start investing and building a new home now! When it comes to affordable housing, Vista Land’s Lumina Homes comes to mind as a popular choice for residential property. Ready to push forward to mark a new decade of being recognized as a national housing player, LUMINA HOMES welcomes everyone to come and celebrate its 9 th year of being “ unsta9ppable ”! With more than 800 he...

  GCash, Hope and Century Pacific plant 1M coconut trees to boost farmers’ income GCash, the Philippines’ leading mobile wallet, together with the non-profit organization HOPE, and Century Pacific Food, one of the country’s largest branded food companies, will be working together to fund the planting of 1 million coconut trees in the provinces of South Cotabato and Sarangani. This will be done via GForest, the environmental protection feature on the GCash app . This marks the first time that a GForest tree-planting initiative will be implemented in Mindanao, extending the app's reach nationwide, and helping thousands of farmers in the province. HOPE has been working  to provide agriculture interventions such as replanting, farmer training, intercropping, and increasing market access to smallholder farmers in Mindanao since 2014. To date, they have distributed over 100,000 quality seedlings to over 10,000 smallholder farmers in the region.   With this tree-planting...

  Ito ang Dugong Pinoy! 3 Mommies Share How They Keep Their Blood Healthy to Strengthen Their Immunity   2020 has presented numerous challenges to Filipinos, more so, to women. The stress and pressure of pushing forward has left a lot of Filipinas with more on their plates than they could handle. Despite this, women have continued to be the main care providers of their homes, their children, all on top of maintaining a full-time career.   This leaves us wondering, how do Filipinas keep their bodies healthy for their families? We asked three Filipinas how they were able to push through with their daily responsibilities on top of taking good care of their loved ones, and still serve as a greater inspiration for many women.   Besides the usual chores and daily tasks, Mommy Jenica shares that she has been busy with her home-based business making cakes and baked goods. With a business that requires her to exert time and attention to detail being loaded with mult...