ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma After winning the Australian Open last Sunday in a thrilling, come-from-behind five-set match triumph over Daniil Medvedev, Rafael ‘Rafa’ Nadal is now being hailed as the G.O.A.T. — acronym for the Greatest of All Time — in the history of men’s tennis singles...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Zoom is one of the wonders brought on by the coronavirus. It has become the dominant virtual platform for corporate videoconferences, seminars and workshops, family meetings, high school class reunion, novena prayers for the dead — and all other milestone social events like...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta said: “I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.” When Mt. Pinatubo...
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...
