On World Ballet Day: Prima Ballerina Lisa Macuja-Elizalde honored for supporting children’s learning

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Save the Children Philippines is honoring Prima Ballerina Lisa Macuja Elizalde for dedicating her world-class talent to provide support to children’s right to learn amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

In celebration of her birthday last October 3, Macuja-Elizalde conducted an online floor barre class and donated the proceeds to Save the Children Philippines’ Project ARAL (Access to Resources for Alternative Learning) which aims to help children from low-income families and those with disabilities to have access to alternative learning platforms.

Ballet and fitness enthusiasts participated, donated, and provided support in raising awareness to continue children’s learning needs during the pandemic.

The child rights organization gave the distinction to Macuja-Elizalde to mark the World Ballet Day, being celebrated every 29th of October. World Ballet Day is an annual global celebration bringing the dance community together through different activities to showcase their work.

“Artists and celebrities have important roles in amplifying our advocacy message to promote children’s rights, and through their dedication and tireless work, we are able to help more deprived and marginalized children fulfil their potential,” said Naida Pasion, Chief Business Development Officer of Save the Children Philippines.

Macuja-Elizalde, the Directress of Ballet Manila School, established Project Ballet Futures – a program providing support to promising young boys and girls by giving them free ballet training, apparel, meals and allowances to help them reach their dream of becoming professional dancers.

KC Concepcion joins Panda Family as newest WWF-PH Ambassador

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Hello, Panda! 

TV personality and long-time food security advocate KC Concepcion is the newest member of the Panda Family.

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Philippines welcomes KC Concepcion as the newest TV personality to join its roster of celebrity ambassadors this year, helping the organization spread awareness on food security and the importance of sustainable consumption and production in environmental conservation.

Working with WWF, one of her dream organizations, the actress expressed her enthusiasm about joining the Panda family in a video posted on her Youtube page.

“It has been my longtime dream to be supporting an NGO that focuses on protecting and improving our environment, our planet, our wildlife, and in turn creating a better world. And finally, that dream is now a reality. It humbles me to be part of an amazing family whose goal is to protect Mother Nature at all costs,” she shared. 

As a long-time food security advocate, Concepcion shared that among the sustainability practices she observes at home are planting her own herbs and vegetables in her balcony and making sure that no food goes to waste. 

Although new to the Panda Family, Concepcion has already lent her platform to encourage the public to practice sustainability in their own kitchens by running special episodes of her online show Kitchen Collabs for Kawali-Kasan—WWF-PH’s sustainable home cooking series aiming to promote sustainable food consumption and production while fundraising for the organization’s environmental frontliners and partner communities.

Concepcion aims to promote local produce and work on food security initiatives as a WWF-PH ambassador.

“We need to reconnect with our food and remember how it even got to our local market, or grocery store, and to our table. We forget that every produce harvested and farmed uses lots of energy, transporting them from the farm to our fork. We should have a certain respect for food and farmers and see how we can do our part in our everyday lives to lessen food waste, and learn steps on how to be self-sustainable now more than ever before. I aim to learn and help others learn with me the value of understanding our human connection with food, rallying behind local fishermen and farmers, supporting the consumption of local produce, and things like preventing food waste and learning new recipes to make the most of what grows in our own soil and seas! For beach lovers like me, remembering to protect and preserve and respect our marine sanctuaries and marine life is so important to me. Let’s all learn what it means to be living ‘the WWF lifestyle’ every day,” said Concepcion. 

WWF-Philippines looks forward to working alongside KC. Her passion and support will go a long way toward the organization’s goal to encourage the public in taking collective action to #ChangeTheEnding for the planet.

Kim Chiu Just Outed Gerald Anderson and Julia Barretto

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Trending na naman si Kim Chiu! Lupeeet!! This year is really yours, Kim.

2020 is definitely Kim Chiu's year... lmaoooo Kim just outed Gerald Anderson and Julia Barretto. Kim Chiu candidly mentions 'Julia Barretto' while scrolling Gerald Anderson's Instagram (IG). 

Hindi talaga nag iisip kahit kailan!!! 

Vice Ganda and Vhong Navarro's reaction gave it all.

"Yung pagbukas mo nandoon so Julia Barretto.....ayy bawal ba?"

It's the awkward silence for me.. 

Walang nagawa si Kim kundi mag peace sign na lang. She just spilled some tea that day.

It's Kim Chiu's day today spreading laughter, fun and good vibes. Lol! Ha ha ha! We all have that friend na Kim Chiu sa ka tactless an.   

Kim Chiu’s improvement as a host in It's showtime is so visibly good. Good choice!  Kim, keep it up. Can’t wait when you will have the same stage with the one and only Anne Curtis. Can't wait also for the show to kick-out Vice Ganda, the only bad influence here...aside from the alleged rapist Vhong Navarro.

Does anyone remember that show with Kim Chiu and Gerald Anderson where they kept dying over and over but kept going back in time to save each other but still kept dying especially that one scene with salt and pepper and then someone gets hit by a bus? 

Sana Maulit Muli had one of the best loveteam for all time next to Bea Alonzo and John Lloyd Cruz.

It was a wise decision to replace the traitor Mariel "DDS" Rodriguez Padilla with Kim. Mariel can eat all the Dolomites at Manila Bay.

Mas maganda yang hindi scripted ang mga dialogues. Walang binabasang teleprompter or idiot board. Natural talaga at adlibs lang. Something that Kim should be proud of kahit may instances na tactless at mali-mali ang information.

How about you? Do you love Kim Chiu's ala Kris Aquino trait?