On September 26, 2009, Tropical Storm “Ondoy” (international name Ketsana) caused heavy flooding in the Philippines affecting more than 2 Million persons (source: National Disaster Coordinating Council, as of September 29, 2009).

To get updates on the situation, you can go to http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/09/26/09/tropical-storm-ondoy-updates-and-advisories

Photo Credits: Philippineaid.com

Lopez Group Foundation, Inc. (LGFI) is accepting cash donations for the disaster relief operations of ABS-CBN Foundation’s “Sagip Kapamilya”

Donors within the Philippines may deposit their donations in:

Acct name: Lopez Group Foundation, Inc.

Bank: BPI, Pasig Ortigas branch

Acct no.: 0201-0444-56

For donations in kind drop off sites are at 13 Examiner Street or at Scout Bayona in front of Rembrandt Hotel.

For international donors please refer to http://www.abscbnfoundation.com/donate.php

Gina Lopez, Managing Director for ABS-CBN Foundation Inc. (AFI) announces that the foundation amassed 5,044,000 signatures in their drive to declare the La Mesa Watershed a protected area. Bantay Kalikasan, AFI’s environmental arm, has launched the campaign to gather 5 million signatures with the help of several organizations from the religious sector, the academe as well as both sides of the political spectrum in support for the cause.

Over the past 15 years, ICAP Plc., the world’s largest interdealer broker, has been conducting an Annual Charity Day. Every December, the company’s total earnings in one day is dedicated to address the medical, developmental, social and emotional concerns of the underprivileged, around the globe. For 2006 alone, customers and staff of ICAP Plc. was able to raise USD14 million, worldwide.

ICAP Philippines Inc. has committed its support for the ABS-CBN Foundation, Inc. (AFI) Bantay Kalikasan Program in sustaining the reforestation and protection of the La Mesa watershed, ensuring clean water supply of almost 12 million residents of Metro Manila.

To conserve biological diversity through a nationwide forest restoration program that addresses both ecological integrity and human well-being, strongly supported by a social movement through private sector participation, Institutional partnerships, local governance and community mobilization.

Three small cogon areas within the First Philippine Industrial Park (FPIP), in Sto. Tomas, Batangas are being transformed into an ecology park

DZMM successfully concluded its 8th Annual “Takbo para sa Kalikasan” (Run for the Environment) last 11 February 2006 (Saturday) at the Quirino Grandstand, Luneta, Manila. More than 2,600 registered runners took to the streets at exactly 6:00 a.m. Among the runners were Unilever President Howard Belton, Macropharma President Salvador Rivera and the Ms. Philippines- Earth winners.

First Philippine Conservation Inc.

The Philippines has more diversity of life per hectare than any other country on earth. Yet few people, including Filipinos themselves, are aware of the rich biological treasures found in their own archipelago.