ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Our second Christmas in the time of coronavirus seems to be more cheerful than last year. As the country eases into what appears to be a more benign coronavirus scenario, schools are gearing for the possibility of being able to resume face-to-face learning in greater...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Nine days before Christmas, there is a muted expectation that this year’s observance we are a tad short of being able to characterize it as a celebration would be more expansive than in 2020. Coronavirus has indelibly altered our mindsets. It would take some time before we...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Sustainability is “the capacity to endure in a relatively ongoing way across various domains of life.” When the banner of sustainable environment is raised, it must stand for rebirth, re-growth and regeneration – or, in a word, transformation. Thus declared Laura...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma “Business can be a force for good if you could transform it,” declared Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank, as he delivered the keynote address at the virtual Rotary Presidential Conference in Asia beamed from Manila on Nov. 26. He envisioned such...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Just a week after the onset of the first enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) lockdown in March 2020, I received a text message from a long-time friend: “You must have heard that Mike (not his real name) died last night. He went home after waiting for hours to be admitted; no...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma How would Rotary clubs and similar service organizations do their work while an entire country is under lockdown due to a national health emergency? This was the dilemma faced by more than 1.2 million Rotarians in more than 36,000 clubs in the world when the coronavirus...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma A global summit – the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – is ongoing in Glasgow, Scotland to address global concerns on the continuing threats posed by unabated global warming. The Philippines will likely...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Last week, an ASEAN Sustainability E-Summit was held with the theme, Private Sector in Solidarity with Sustainable COVID-19 Recovery and Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the SM Group, one of the region’s largest...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma In February 2019, a new and expanded Universal Health Care (UHC) law was enacted by Congress to improve upon the earlier version that was passed in 1995. Its implementing rules and regulations provided for a two-year period – or until this year, 2021 – for many of its...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Hometown Cha Cha Cha, the Korean drama series on romance that bloomed between a big city-bred dentist and a local village chief, has been topping the audience-share charts leading toward its season-ending episodes this weekend. In the Philippines, it was the number one show on...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma On June 1, 1988, I began a new career as a teacher as an associate professor at the Asian Institute of Management. I had just completed more than a decade of work with a leading commercial bank where my last stint was in corporate planning after many years in the human...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma From 2006 to 2015, the World Bank reports, “Robust economic growth helped the poverty rate in the Philippines to fall by 5 percentage points... from 26.6 percent in 2006 to 21.6 percent in 2015, due to factors like the expansion of jobs outside agriculture, government...
