Apr 02, 2013 12:45 SGT QNET QNET Philippines sponsors charity golf tournament, benefitting Filipino war veterans.
Subject: Social issues
Blog posts
Apr 01, 2013 10:10 SGT QNET In the direct selling industry, females make up 80% of distributors. However, not many are in leadership positions. It's a similar story in the business world. There are those, though, who have achieved success in a "man's world". Learn from their advice in this article by global direct selling company, QNET.
Mar 15, 2013 19:30 SGT The Happiness Effect Mr John Helliwell shares 3 ideas on how we can celebrate the first International Day of Happiness by the United Nations. Mr Helliwell is from the Economics Department of the University of British Columbia and co-director of the 'Social Interactions, Identity and Well-being' program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
Mar 14, 2013 22:56 SGT The Happiness Effect Ms Angela Lam, founder of The Happiness Effect (THE) movement and Skool of Happiness, wrote about THE phenomenon and the unfathomable ripple effect caused by the smallest actions and events.
Mar 11, 2013 14:48 SGT QNET In honour of International Women’s Day on 8 March, QNET celebrates great women and lauds them for the amazing things they’ve accomplished. We want to dedicate this post to every woman who has inspired us and made us better! Here, we’ve profiled five women who have Made a Difference or are continuing to do so.
Jan 22, 2013 10:41 SGT Save the Children (Asia) As of tonight, thousands of children in Jakarta will not be sleeping in their beds at home. Instead, they will spend the night in a shared space of school or other government buildings, after they were forced from their inundated homes.
Jan 04, 2013 15:29 SGT Save the Children (Asia) It’s three weeks since typhoon Bopha, locally known as Pablo, made landfall on the eastern coast of Mindanao, Philippines; and the sound of hammering could be heard echoing throughout the community we went to for shelter assessment.
Dec 24, 2012 09:32 SGT Save the Children (Asia) When you’re a disaster responder you get hardened to the numbers. The millions affected. The roofs blown away. The roads broken. The schools closed. The food and water needed. You have to be hardened and focus on what has to be done. But sometimes something takes you by surprise and reminds you of the human story.
Dec 24, 2012 08:42 SGT Save the Children (Asia) On the night when the Typhoon hit, my house was crushed by a tree. Now I live in my father’s one bedroom house with seven other families. I am a day care worker but the day care centre was destroyed. Now there is nowhere for the small children to go. My two children live across the river and they are so scared that the storm might come back.
Dec 13, 2012 13:52 SGT Save the Children (Asia) Two years ago, no one would have expected a situation like this. Families here are not prepared for such disasters, simply because no one expects it to hit them. As a result, their houses were not built to resist such strong winds, fishermen were unlikely to pay any attention storm alerts, and children have not taught to react and respond to a situation like this.