Globe and Kiva Create Sustainable Livelihood Opportunities for Underserved PH Population

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Fifty-eight year old Josefina from Trinidad, Bohol only had P15,000 in savings when she started her small sari-sari store in 1999. Wanting to support the growing needs of her nephews, being single herself, Josefina requested P20,000 which she used to expand her business and attract more customers. She received financial assistance from 15 individual microlenders via one of Kiva’s Field Partners, Community Economic Ventures, Inc., which provides not only loans but training and insurance coverage as well.

Cebu-based Shayne Mae, on the other hand, is a hardworking entrepreneur who also needed additional funds to use as a working capital for her clothing sales business. With the assistance of eight individual microlenders under another Kiva Field Partner, Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation (NWTF), Shayne Mae was able to borrow P11,999 to sustain her business. She dreams of saving enough money to send her children to college and renovate her family home.

Josefina and Shayne Mae are just two of hundreds of Filipinos which Globe Telecom and international non-profit organization Kiva are crowdfunding loans to create sustainable livelihood opportunities for the underserved population in the country.

San Francisco-based Kiva is an online crowdfunding platform that enables anyone in the world to make a microloan to micro enterprises in over 80 countries in the areas of agriculture, food, retail, and services in a bid to alleviate poverty.

Made in the Philippines: Everything Done Pinoy Teleserye Style

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Filipinos are undoubtedly very creative, and could think of many ways to tickle your imagination -in terms of spoofing, or making fun of even the most mundane. Actually, those are their favorite stuff to play with as a means to mock or just have lots of laughter especially when they are either irked or plain bored.

The popularity of the FPJ's Ang Probinsiyano teleserye soundtrack whose portion of the song plays everyday every time there's a critically worrisome scene in the teleserye made Pinoys poke fun of it by making their own version.

They applied the same song to everything else out there, from foreign TV series to movies like Stranger Things and Game of Thrones, and even animes or cartoons like Slam Dunk and Pokemon, up to sports events like the UAAP and Arnis competitions.

Now there's even some created using the style of Eat Bulaga's Juan for All and All for Juan - split screen and all that is AlDub, like the How I Met your Mother Pinoy Noontime Show Style. Lol!

Nothing will stop Filipinos from being imaginative up to a point when the creators of the point of subject finally wakes up and try out something new. Please lang po. Your style stinks and is apparently "bulok" that many of the Pinoys are probably either choking to death.

We don't really know if this trend means a positive towards Coco Martin's Ang Probinsiyano, but there are so many ideas out there that would be more interesting to watch out for instead of playing the same irritating song all over again. 

Below is a compilation of most of the videos made into Pinoy Teleserye style: 

Print Photos from your Smartphone with the New Instax Share Printer

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With the rise of social media culture, today’s tech savvy millennials rely on their smartphones to capture their favorite moments and use various online platforms to share their photos. However, once uploaded or stored in their computer’s memory drive, these photos are left forgotten after some time.

Fujifilm Philippines has launched a product that would surely make preserving and sharing photos more fun. With the instax SHARE SP-2, you can make instax prints by sending the images from your smartphone directly to the printer. You can now turn your memorable moments into tangible keepsakes and share them with friends and loved ones.

The instax SHARE SP-2 is a small printer that allows users to produce instax prints using images sent wirelessly from a smartphone. It is powered by a rechargeable lithium battery and comes with a USB cable that you can connect to a portable charger (power bank)—perfect for travelers or those who are always on the go.

Unlike its predecessor, the instax SHARE SP-2 prints photos faster --- 10 seconds! --- and with a more improved image quality. It has new functions to meet users’ preferences and fit their lifestyle of taking and editing photos with smartphones. It also has a new exposure system that promises a higher image resolution.