It is hard. Trying to go against the current of the status quo. Witnessing everyone around me taking the relatively safer road, the one tried and tested, while I am contemplating what I will do in the future. This term made me ask questions. To start pursuing corporate or start with a socially/sustainability-oriented career? Corporate […]
The final prayer for our YFC Shared Learning was filled with these series of words: “Thank you, Lord!”“Salamat po!”“Gusto lang po namin mag-thank you!”“…kahit na medyo maulan, biniyayaan pa rin kami!”“… di Mo kami pinabayaan!”“Salamat din po sa mga darating pang mga blessings!” This kind of gratitude is very rare. Most of the time, people […]
For me, the highlight of our COSORES class discussion today lies on the concept of “imperfect competition”. If I’m not mistaken, (economics majors please correct me!), the assumption of capitalism and economics is that the invisible hand of the market will enable justice and fairness due to perfect competition. Now I know what Yunus was […]
Our mentor in the Social Entrepreneurship and Good Governance Training Program at ADMU said that social entrepreneurs must introduce: “Pattern-breaking social change”. Then I remembered my father telling me that positive change can only happen, especially in the Philippines, when: “People get sick and tired of being sick and tired.” Is tremendous poverty not yet […]
I remember playing an exciting role-playing game in the PlayStation1 called “Suikoden II”. It is a game where the hero leads a rebellion army to unite the state called Dunan. Before the climatic final war, Shu the strategist asks the hero, (paraphrased) “Would you choose the easy path, the path of the ordinary and safe, […]
It has been quite a year. Since January, I have been eager to explore a career social innovation, particularly through social entrepreneurship. Some would deem me as to being too worried – I still have one academic year to decide what to do after graduation. Fast forward to 7 months later, I’m still torn whether […]
Awhile ago, we helped conduct the YFC Sports Festival at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament near Mindanao Avenue and Quirino Highway. The activity started and ended in prayer through song worship. And boy, it has been a long time since I’ve been part of a song worship. Then it occurred to me: what if […]
I have enrolled in a short course in Ateneo De Manila University, which is dubbed as the “Social Entrepreneurship and Governance Training Program”. This class is very interesting, and in the vernacular, nakakakaba, since most of the students are graduates already and in fact, some already have their own social enterprises. Only I and James […]
We will be involved in the Youth for Christ (YFC) for our Shared Learning activity in COSORES. I think this is a great exposure to see how a Christ-centric organization functions, and how we can integrate our business student skills and talents to help their organization achieve their goals or execute projects. I remember encountering […]
Ethics has been a very delicate issue especially in business. Numerous principles and frameworks, such as utilitarianism and deontology, have been developed and even applied to the business setting to address the need for enterprises to have guiding principles. This is a tricky situation, indeed. How do you mix ethics in an environment where results […]