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Smile Train has always been committed to finding new paths and using technology to serve more patients and communities around the country through its Interactive Telehealth Program and Speech Camp. The Public Relations Society of the Philippines (PRSP) and the Philippine Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators honored the programs with awards from colleagues in the communications industry. The program’s awards recognized the volunteers’, healthcare organizations’, and corporate partners’ commitment and devotion to rallying support for cleft patients so that they could continue to receive quality cleft treatment even during the disease outbreak.

Smile Train’s Speech Telehealth Program in the Philippines has supported more than 100 patients, providing them with more than 700 cleft care-related sessions, including speech therapy, nutritional support, breastfeeding guidance for mothers of babies with clefts, pre-surgical consultations, and psychosocial care. Results which made it possible for the programs to be conferred with the Silver Anvil Award at PRSP’s 56th Anvil Awards and a Merit Award at IABC’s 18th Philippines Quill Awards.

Launched in April 2020, two weeks into the lockdown, the Virtual Telehealth program is manned by volunteer speech language pathologists. Maximizing technology and social media, the Virtual Telehealth Program made use of Facebook Live, chat applications such as Viber and Messenger, and online discussions to ensure that speech therapy classes continued virtually. More than that, the Telehealth Program managed to reach cleft patients who live in rural or isolated communities and made its services more readily available or convenient for people with limited mobility, time, or transportation options.

Every kid, according to Smile Train, is deserving of the chance to live a normal life. Its willingness to provide speech therapy sessions online during such trying times demonstrates the foundation’s flexibility and dedication to delivering consistent comprehensive cleft treatment to its beneficiaries’ ever-changing needs. The program not only showed Smile Train’s ability to adapt rapidly, but it also helped to illustrate the numerous disparities that remain when it comes to the assistance that cleft lip and palate patients need.

To learn more about how Smile Train’s sustainable approach means donations have both an immediate and long-term impact, please visit smiletrain.ph. For more information about Smile Train’s work in the Philippines, please contact [email protected].

Sameer Singh has been appointed Head of Global Business Solutions, Southeast Asia, at  TikTok, the leading destination for short-form mobile content. Singh will be in charge of leading sales and business marketing solutions across all TikTok for Business products in the area in his new role. Singh has pioneered creative marketing and advertisement strategies over the course of his 25-year career. Prior to joining TikTok and ByteDance, Singh was the Chief Executive Officer of GroupM South Asia, where he helped clients gain a strategic edge in digital leadership and content. Singh has also worked for Google, where he held important leadership roles, GSK, Procter & Gamble, and IPG have offices in Palo Alto, Boston, London, Dubai, and Guangzhou, among other locations.

In a career spanning over 25 years, Singh has pioneered innovative marketing and advertising solutions. Prior to joining TikTok and ByteDance, Singh spearheaded the operations at GroupM as Chief Executive Officer, South Asia, providing clients with a competitive advantage in digital leadership and content. Singh has also held key leadership positions in Google, GSK, Procter & Gamble, and IPG, across geographies including Palo Alto, Boston, London, Dubai and Guangzhou.

“TikTok has supported tens of thousands of enterprises and partners, especially small and medium businesses, to elevate their marketing and advertising efforts and grow their business with our extensive product suite. Southeast Asia is a fast-growing region with boundless potential, especially in the short-form content space, and the SEA markets continue to be a priority for us as we expand and innovate our TikTok for Business offerings to suit the diverse needs of this region,” said Singh.

TikTok’s Global Market Solutions arm enables companies of all sizes to connect with their target customers in new and innovative ways, while also providing a supportive and secure atmosphere for brand partners. Singh’s appointment reaffirms TikTok’s contribution to Southeast Asia’s local economies by assisting the region’s few small and mid-sized companies.

 “We are in a dynamic time at TikTok as we introduce new and creative ways for brands of all sizes to reach success on TikTok, and Singh has been indispensable in driving TikTok’s advertising efforts thus far,” said Blake Chandlee, TikTok’s President of Global Business Solutions. “We’re absolutely delighted to welcome him to this new role and look forward to seeing how he will propel the team to new heights as Head of Global Business Solutions in Southeast Asia.”

TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, Mountain View, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo. www.tiktok.com.

Summer is officially here, and just because you won’t be able to spend it outside in the sun doesn’t mean you can’t have a good time. It’s entirely possible to have a different kind of summer at home, and Devant will assist you in doing so. The brand takes the best of summer indoors, helping you to remain healthy and worry-free. Its feature-rich televisions, such as the Devant Smart Quantum 4K TV Series, are ideal for this. Large screens equal big entertainment, and the Devant Smart Quantum 4K TV, which comes in 65”, 55”, and 50” sizes, delivers just that. Its Quantum Ultra HD 3840×2160 resolution produces a crisp, direct picture that is reminiscent of scenic views on a beautiful summer day. It runs the Vidaa U operating system, which has a simple, easy-to-use interface that can be customized to fit your unique needs.

Through the VIDAA STORE, an HTML5-based storefront of exciting apps that are all optimized for TV, you can get all the apps you need for entertainment. Missing the sea? Watch movies and TV shows set on the beach on Netflix. You can also use YouTube to learn how to make summer-friendly food and drinks, like smoothies and fresh cold salads. And, with Anyview Cast, you can mirror your phone screen onto your TV to watch and relive all the fun memories of past summers on a larger screen.

Here are all the fantastic Devant Smart Quantum 4K TV features that you can enjoy:

1. Available in 65”, 55”, and 50”
2. Quantum Ultra HD 3840×2160
3. Vidaa U Operating System
4. VIDAA App Store
5. HDR Compatible
6. Ultra Smooth Motion
7. Bluetooth Function
8. YouTube
9. Netflix
10. Screen Sharing
11. Dolby Atmos
12. Dolby Vision

At the Devant Summer Splash Sale, get a free Devant Soundbar when you upgrade to an amazing Smart Quantum 4K TV! The Devant Summer Splash Sale is available in Devant’s Official Flagship Stores on Lazada (https://bit.ly/DevantLaz9) and Shopee (https://bit.ly/DevantShp9), as well as participating retail stores, until March 31, 2021.

For more about the #SummerSplashSmartTVs, as well as other products, check out the Devant Website (www.devanttv.com) Devant products are also available in leading appliance stores nationwide.

Follow Devant on Facebook (www.facebook.com/devant.tv), Instagram (www.instagram.com/devanttv), and Youtube Devant Official Channel for the latest updates.

(L-R) Mike Dauden (Head of ConcepStore), Jojo Concepcion (Chairman & CEO, Concepcion Industrial Corporation, JT Solis (Co-Founder & CEO, Mayani), Atty. Ron Dime (Co-Founder & Chief Legal Counsel, Mayani)

A Farm to Kitchen 3-Day Mega-Sale will be held this March 29 to March 31 against the backdrop of tighter neighborhood quarantines and a preference for shopping from the comfort of one’s own home, offering customers up to a 20% discount on selected kitchen appliance and fresh produce packages conveniently delivered to their doorsteps.

Mayani, the country’s fastest-growing farm-to-table network with over 10,000 rural smallholder farmers, Kumu, the leading live streaming app for Filipinos around the world, and ConcepStore, the e-commerce arm of the Concepcion Industrial Corporation, have come together to launch the initiative (CIC),Carrier, Condura, Toshiba, and Midea are only a few of the well-known home brands that are publicly traded.

Mike Dauden, Head of ConcepStore stated, “ConcepStore is focusing on the big home reboot as people learn to cope and adapt to the new normal. We are beginning to see a shift towards a safer and healthier lifestyle with more and more families staying home and eating fresh. Our goal is to provide a healthier lifestyle with us providing modern kitchen appliances, Mayani bringing in the fresh produce, and Kumu as our community builder.”

The alliance continues with what is also considered the first-of-its-kind Farm to Kitchen offerings that showcase quality and inherently support the local agricultural industry, one of the hardest hit sectors during the pandemic. With CIC’s 60-year conglomerate controlling nearly 40% market share in the consumer appliance space, the alliance proceeds with what is also considered the first-of-its-kind Farm to Kitchen offerings that showcase quality and inherently support the local agricultural industry, one of the hardest hit sectors during the pandemic.

“We have long laser-focused on moms, health buffs, and kitchen aficionados as they are the drivers of our retail growth, so this is way to further capture more holistic data on their spending patterns and constantly come up with new offers that meet their total needs – from what they eat to how they prepare the food,” said JT Solis, the Co-Founder & CEO of Mayani, top brands like Shell, WalterMart, and Safe Options now use who to control their fresh produce supply chains.

The 20 percent flash sale on bundles like the Multifunctional Vegetable Sterilizer with Fresh Benguet Basket and Bean to Cup Coffee Maker with Barako Coffee Beans is only available on the Mayani e-commerce platform and Kumu app’s live commerce channels starting March 29 and is stackable – meaning customers can check out with multiple discounts. On April 5, deliveries will be made.

Irving Mendoza, Vice President for Live Commerce of Kumu said, “We evolved our app not just to provide a venue to for authentic communities but also a launchpad for homegrown brands such as Mayani and ConcepStore to amplify their e-commerce roadmaps.”

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The cost of having your home destroyed by fire is immeasurable; fires can occur at any time and in any place, destroying your life, household appliances, and more. From January to December 2018, the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) reported a total of 14,316 fire incidents.

This is why every March is Fire Prevention Month in the Philippines, and BFP’s campaign for this month is safety consciousness among our people every day of the year as a positive preventive approach to a problem that can be solved by more caution, vigilance, sobriety, exercise of common sense and respect for the law.” It is a campaign that focuses on exercising vigilance at home and keeping oneself knowledgeable on the best way to protect your home and family from destruction brought about by fire. “Cebuana Lhuillier has always committed to be of help to the Filipinos at all times, and our call for Fire Prevention is a reflection of that, our insurance products that aims to keep our clients protected at all times is a complementary effort to our advocacy for this month.” said Jean Henri Lhuillier, President and CEO of Cebuana Lhuillier.

PJ Lhuillier’s insurance arm, the Cebuana Lhuillier Insurance Brokers, Inc (CLIB), has also expressed its support for BFP’s campaign through the years. It has been a staunch advocate of having Filipinos insured, posting almost a 35% contribution to the total number of insured Filipinos through microinsurance. CLIB has also worked together closely with the Insurance Commission in promoting microinsurance in the country, they have settled over more than 5,300 million claims worth over Php 500 million they have serviced over 16,500 claimants. Cebuana Lhuillier Insurance Brokers’, Inc. is also the first and only ISO-certified insurance broker in the Philippines. Also launched this month in conjunction with the celebration of the Fire Prevention Month is a promo dubbed “Panalo ka sa ProtectMax” where clients of the ProtectMax product of CLIB get a chance to win Php 25,000. The promo is open to all clients who will purchase 5 ProtectMax COCs; these 5 COCs are equal to e-raffle entry. For the promo, 20 lucky raffle winners will be selected and will win Php 25,000.

“This Fire Prevention month, it is very important to drumbeat awareness on fire safety and prevention, and the importance of being protected. CLIB believes that an information and education drive is very important to ensure that everyone is well-informed against conflagration.” said Cebuana Lhuillier Insurance Brokers’ Inc., Jonathan Batangan.

For clients who are interested to keep themselves protected without having to go to Cebuana Lhuillier’s more than 2,500 branches, they may purchase Home Insurance via the ProtectNow app or website, just log on to protectnow.com to see CLIB’s full range of products online.

They’ve also organized the #SunogFreeWorryFree: ProtectMax Kontra Sunog webinar, which aims to emphasize the importance of being prepared for unexpected events, especially fire, as well as the importance of having protection whenever conflagration is a hazard.