1st Philippine Business Plan Challenge launches
in September

Filipino entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas will compete in the 1st Philippine Business in Development (BiD) Challenge, a year-round competition of business plans that both generate profits and improve the quality of lives of Filipinos.

Initiated in the Netherlands, the BiD Challenge has reached 3 million people in 65 countries, enlisted 4,000 promising entrepreneurs, and generated 2,000 business ideas with a double bottomline of profit
and social good. The Philippines has consistently submitted the
most number of entries among developing countries. Two Filipinos have already bagged top prizes.

The launching event will be in September of this year. Interested investors, event sponsors, entrepreneurs and organizations
supporting Filipino entrepreneurship may contact
Lani Briosos-Mc Donough, Training & Consulting Group at (02) 527-7741 loc. 104 or email lmbrisos@pbsp.org.ph. To know more about BiD, log on to www.bidnetwork.org/philippines.

FSPI adopts PBSP’s Tuberculosis in the Workplace Program

Fairchild Semiconductor Philippines, Inc. (FSPI) launched its Tuberculosis in the Workplace Program, which was marked by a
TB Education session attended by its 1,000 employees. FSPI, the Pusok Health Center and PBSP signed a Memorandum of
Agreement for partnership in TB control in the workplace.

FSPI is the 23rd company implementing the TB-DOTS in the Workplace Program developed by the Foundation. DOTS stands for Directly Observed Treatment Short Course, the cost-effective TB control strategy prescribed by the World Health Organization
(WHO), Department of Health (DOH) and Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).

PBSP assists companies in the following ways: 1) develop policies consistent with the DOLE Guidelines on Workplace TB Control and Prevention; 2) TB education to increase awareness on TB and eliminate stigma; 3) reorientation from dependence on x-ray in TB diagnosis; 4) training of company health staff in TB management
and TB education; and 5) linkage of companies with public health centers and DOTS-certified diagnostic facilities. Assistance for companies interested in helping control TB in their communities is also available.

For information, contact the Training & Consulting Group’s Nilda Loresto for Luzon & Mindanao at (02) 527-7741 or email nuloresto@pbsp.org.ph, and Chellow Ochea for the Visayas at
(032) 232-5270 or email dlochea@pbsp.org.ph.