For the thousands of babies born with a cleft each year, speech therapy is an essential need. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, has disrupted access to speech therapy services. Smile Train, the world’s leading cleft charity, stands by its commitment to continue promoting comprehensive cleft care despite the challenges brought about by the pandemic with the launch...
Smile Train, the world’s leading cleft charity, furthers its commitment to champion Filipino children with cleft and spread more smiles through a partnership with AF Payments Inc. (AFPI), the joint venture between Ayala Group and First Pacific Group behind the contactless smart card, beep™. To sustain its goal to provide children with cleft with the urgent support...
2020 is definitely a year to remember and describing it as a challenging one seems to be an understatement. We’ve all had difficult years before us, but this year, it’s different. From volcano explosion, numerous typhoons which left many people homeless, and the global pandemic that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and counting. But despite all these,...
World Vision in the Philippines has recently launched its 1st Virtual Run for Children. The goal of this event is to promote fitness and health during the community quarantine in the country while raising funds for the benefit of World Vision’s most vulnerable children and communities. Due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, marginalized Filipino families especially...
Lamoiyan Corporation’s Licealiz Head Lice Treatment Shampoo rolls out Kilusang Kontra Kuto (KKK) Year 4, a yearly nationwide shampooing activity in its commitment to battle head lice infestation or pediculosis and eliminate the social stigma associated with it. In partnership with the Department of Education (DepEd), Lamoiyan Corporation is visiting 30 schools nationwide...
Pediculosis or head lice infestation or pagkalat ng kuto is a country-wide problem in the Philippines. Actually, according to a study conducted by the Department of Education (DepEd) and the University of the Philippines, head lice infestation is considered as the second common health problem in public schools next to tooth decay. And yet, it seems that many still...
LamoiyanCorporation, maker of Licealiz Head Lice Treatment Shampoo, has served 23,200 students in 116 public schools nationwide and counting since the start of its free shampooing program in 2014. This 2017,the company continued its initiative to educate the public on head lice infestation issues with the second year of its KilusangKontraKuto campaign. “Head lice...
