What is Wellness Pilipinas?
The Philippines' response to the call of World Health Organization (WHO) in 2009 to lessen the augment of Lifestyle Diseases of stroke, cancer, diabetes, etc, and the country's compliance to United Nations Climate Change Peace Building Campaign in 2007. Wellness Pilipinas! was conceived by "Wellness for Peace" Author, Public Speaker & former Peace Ambassador Zara Jane Juan. It consists of pep talks, workshops, symposiums & fora meant to achieve wellness in mind, body, spirit & economics as tools for peace & nation-building. Wellness Pilipinas aired as a live TV show at GNN via G-SAT Asia from 2009-2010 supported by private and public corporations
Disadvantaged kids in Mindanao get Japanese-sponsored education | The Japan Times Online: "Tomo Matsui first set up Tomo Library in 2000 in nearby Davao Oriental Province, followed by the Library Fund for Asian Children in 2002.
MCLF currently has more than 500 students from elementary school to college, comprising Christians, Muslims and members of indigenous tribes like the Manobo. Around 80 of them are housed in the foundation, given free food and other basic necessities.
Supported by benefactors from Japan, the foundation has already produced around 50 college or vocational school graduates, including MCLF President Asrie Sabil Hussain."
