Philippines 2016

Partner Organization: All R Up (Pagtambayayong Foundation, PFI)

Sector: Packaging

Objective: Establish proper branding, marketing, and packaging solutions for pork and milk products to make them competitive within the mainstream market, without compromising affordability for the organization’s current urban poor partners.

The Branding and Packaging for Meat and Dairy Products team includes, from left, Yung Jin Kim, Cynthia Smith, Amit Shah, Anthony Mitchell, Stefanie Boos, and Carolina Gregorio.

Partner Organization: Cebu Technological University

Sector: Education/Agriculture

Objective: Develop global linkages and networks with foreign universities and organizations to improve the professional employability of graduates of the agricultural programs, as well as develop partnerships with various industries for collaborative research and product development.

The Creating Pathways for Employment in Ag Fields team includes, clockwise from left, Rachael Christiansen, Thiago Esteves, Josh DeVelvis, Stefan Boesenberg, Stephanie Wu, and Rebekah Feist.

Partner Organization: Lamac Multi-Purpose Cooperative

Sector: Agriculture

Objective: Educate farmers on techniques to increase the production of high-quality crops, reduce post-harvest loss, and support their financial literacy.

The Increasing Crop Production through Better Farming team includes, from left, Everton Luz dos Santos, Maureen Shi, Jason Ramps, Anthony Mitus, Sadie Bell, Marloes Wigman, and Facundo Lamot.

Partner Organization: Department of Science and Technology Region 7

Sector: Agriculture

Objective: Promote the production and commercialization of dried food products that are acceptable to local and export market consumers, through the development of a hybrid (solar and boiler) dryer.

The Promoting Exportation of Dried Foods Using Hybrid Dryer team includes, clockwise from left, Silvia Pena Alonso, Poompichate Eakawut, Guillaume Artois, Matt Lendzinski, Amanda Ciccone, Eunice Ch’ng, and Umashankar Sistu.

Partner Organization: Philippine Business for Social Progress

Sector: Water

Objective: Increase access to sufficient and affordable safe water to 50 households of Sitio Kabatbatan, on the Buhisan Watershed, for their personal consumption and to boost their ornamental plant production, which is the basis of their livelihood.

The Water Access for Enhanced Consumer Plant Production team includes, from left, Lotheronie (Teenie) Raby, Jack Chen, Lisa Malik, Marta Feliu Pamies, Arthur Bremski, Ayush Bafna, and Arda Ozkaynak.

Partner Organization: University of San Carlos School of Engineering

Sector: Water

Objective: Develop recommendations for funding sources and methodologies to assess the water quality and quantity of Tinago Creek, as a pilot for subsequent river rehabilitations throughout the city of Cebu.

The Water Quality Assessment and River Rehabilitation team includes, from left, Tong Wu, Rogerio Mantovani, Mohammed Sami, Cristina Fandino, Abhishek Roy, Gregore Tom Oliveira, and Elizabeth Uhlhorn.

Silvia Pena Alonso

Title: TS&D Specialist
Functional Area: Research & Development
Location: Spain
Project Team: Department of Science and Technology

Roberto (Bobby) F. Batungbacal
Country Director for Dow in the Philippines

Neil Hawkins
Corporate Vice President, Sustainability

John Kolmer
Human Resources Manager, Global Leadership Development

Kow Sin Yee
Public Affairs Manager for Malaysia, Philippines and Singapore

Willie Rytlewsk
Associate Director, Public Affairs - Global Citizenship

Eddy Setiawan
President, Southeast Asia – Dow Chemical Pacific (Singapore) Private Limited

Johanna Söderström
Corporate Vice President, Human Resources and Aviation

Rob Vallentine
Global Director, Corporate Citizenship