Archive - 2010

Date

April 29th

Collecting pull-tabs sends children to school

Recycling tabs as bags provides livelihood for parents, raises funds to keep Filipino children in school

Coca-Cola Foundation Philippines, in partnership with Yellow Cab Pizza Company, launches “Open a Coca-Cola, and help send a child to school today,” a campaign targeted at collecting aluminum pull tabs from Coca-Cola beverages consumed in all Yellow Cab Pizza restaurants nationwide.

55 Coke Barkada volunteers join ‘Servathon’

“Volunteerism is not a choice, it’s a responsibility,” this is what committee chair of the 2009 Hands On Manila Servathon Gianna Montinola emphasized when 32 companies gathered together for a day of volunteer service last October 10, 2009. Now more than ever, this holds true especially with the destruction that typhoon Ondoy brought to parts of Metro Manilanearby towns of San, particularly Pasig and Marikina and to Mateo and Cainta in Rizal.

Coke Barkada Tambayan guests are role models for the youth

Now, the youth in Paradise Heights community have models to look up to. Thanks to VIPs like Sen. Francis Pangilinan, Gawad Kalinga Chair Tony Meloto and Coca-Cola Bottlers President Bill Schultz, who attended the Inauguration of the Coke Barkada Tambayan in Tondo, Manila last September 5, 2009.

Barkada is a group of friends – but not just ''a group of friends''. As with many Filipino words, it is difficult to translate barkada to a single English word - ''clique'' and ''gang'' come close, but do not quite capture the essence of barkada. Clique connotes exclusivity and snobbishness. Gang, in the informal sense, mimics barkada but lacks the lifelong bond that differentiates barkada from a mere social group. The best definition of barkada is probably ''family'', minus the pre-requisite blood relationship. Barkada is the group of peers that one is always comfortable with, knowing that he will be accepted no matter what.