John Arcilla-led CAPABLE Foundation welcomes volunteers
through TimePlease.ph
Care and Protect Life on Earth (CAPABLE) Foundation, an
outreach program established by award-winning actor John Arcilla, recently
joined Globe Telecom’s nationwide volunteering program called Time Please, in a
bid to entice more people to participate in activities that promote
environmental awareness.
Globe, in partnership with The Walt Disney Philippines, last
month launched Time Please to encourage and empower Filipinos – including
companies, organizations, families, and friends – to provide volunteer activities
or participate in existing programs.
“As a responsible corporate advocate, Globe can best serve
the Filipino nation by ensuring that as we transform lives with technology, we
also do our part in sustaining a safe and green environment for this generation
and the next. In this effort, we are reaching out to individuals, communities,
and companies to help us create a ‘Globe of Good’ through Time Please,” said
Yoly Crisanto, Chief Sustainability Officer and Senior Vice President for
Corporate Communications of Globe.
Running from May 25 to August 19 this year, Time Please is
open to individuals willing and capable to do volunteer work. To join,
volunteers should form a group of two to four members as well as nominate a
team leader who is at least 18 years of age and has an active Globe or TM
mobile number.
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| Actor and CAPABLE Foundation President John Arcilla joins Time Please volunteers for an urban planting 101 in Parañaque City. |
CAPABLE Foundation President John Arcilla said the
objectives of Time Please complements the focus of his foundation, which
centers on taking care of the environment.
“Volunteerism is whatever you can share to the community in
terms of time, talent or resources,” said Arcilla, who is known for top-billing the
independently-produced movie Heneral Luna.
Among the programs of CAPABLE Foundation are Fit Earth-Fit
All, a weekly fitness and urban planting program; Sining Kalikasan, which
teaches kids how to appreciate and care for the environment; and a Sunday
school program aimed at teaching Science, Math, and English to in-school youth.
With an aim to green communities one ‘Fit Earth Fit All’ session
at a time, CAPABLE Foundation recently held an urban planting 101 program in
Parañaque City, wherein it taught around 30 mothers valuable gardening skills.
The program also aims to encourage mothers to plant their own crops and share
their knowledge on gardening to other mothers inside and outside their
community.
Interested individuals who want to join the programs of
CAPABLE Foundation can register to volunteer at www.timeplease.ph. The
group with the most number of volunteer hour credits at the end of the program
will win an all-expense paid trip to Hong Kong Disneyland.
Companies with existing volunteer programs may e-mail bridgecom@globe.com.ph to
enroll as a partner organization.
Time Please supports Globe commitment to the nine UN
Sustainable Development Goals and appeals to the Filipinos’ innate Bayanihan
Spirit.
Banking on the Filipino propensity for helping people, the
Philippines ranked 7th of 139 countries when it comes to the highest number of
people volunteering their time, based on 2017 Charities Aid Foundation (CAF)
World Giving Index.*
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