PHILIPPINE Airlines (PAL) recently flew outstanding students from the Mariano Marcos State University in Ilocos Norte to represent the country in the Enactus World Cup 2016 in Toronto, Canada.
Enactus is an international non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring students and business leaders to improve the way of living of underprivileged communities through entrepreneurial action.
Now on its 41st year, Enactus is comprised of students, academic and business leaders committed to using the power of entrepreneurial action to transform lives and make a more sustainable world. It is composed of about 70,000 students from 36 countries who conduct about 5,000 projects that benefit about 2 million people worldwide yearly. The Philippines is presenting two entries to the competition—“Opening Gates” and “Breaking Waves.”
Opening Gates is an enterprise- development project on mushroom production that aims to help prison inmates support their livelihood. Breaking Waves, on the other hand, is a program that helps empower fishermen through seaweed production and value-added marketing.
The country is competing in the annual competition participated in by 35 other countries and over 400 corporate and organizational partners.
Last year PAL flew students from University of the Philippines Iloilo to represent the country and compete in the 2015 Enactus World Cup in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The team placed third in its league after host country South Africa and the United Kingdom, which was later declared champion of the 2016 Enactus World Cup.
The UP-Iloilo team’s entry was “Arms to Farms,” a program that promotes a comprehensive training program for farmers, particularly former members of rebel groups from advance farming techniques to basic business skills, from packaging and marketing to increase their income and help uplift their lives.
PAL, through its flagship corporate social responsibility program Represent Pinoy, supports exceptional individuals chosen to represent the country and bring the best of the Philippines to the world.