Social Media and Social Good

TrickedIn: Campaign to Raise Public Awareness of Sex Trafficking LinkedIn is a great platform to provide updates about one’s career and to connect with other professionals. Interns Alex Dickinson, Vera Chung, Holly Attrill and Andries Vaisman at BBH prove that it can be a great platform to use for advocacy too. Through a campaign called TrickedIn and based on a series of interviews with several illegal sex workers, the team created a composite…

How Can Social Media and Financial Literacy Aid in Advocacy? The ills of our society are formidable challenges that ought to be faced head on. In this age of the internet and social media, we are (more than ever) connected as a people to unite for this work to be completed. These challenges are not new to Filipinos. The Philippines, after all, is still a third world country. Government data…

What are Colorectal Defects or Anorectal Anomalies?   Anorectal anomalies are medical problems affecting the structure of the anus and rectum. A person with an anorectal problem would have some sort of deformative feature of the anus or rectum, collectively known as an anorectal malformation. On the other hand, an imperforate anus or anorectal malformations (ARMs) are birth defects in which the rectum is malformed. ARMs are a spectrum of…

On June 24, 2012 at 5:30 in the morning, children and young people and of people with a big heart for children are all invited to be part of Isa, Dalawa, Takbo: Run for Children’s Rights at UP Academic Oval, UP Diliman. As an advocacy event of MYLE and Lingap Pangkabataan, it has the following aims: • To raise child rights advocacy spirit among its partner communities- academe, young people,…

ILOILO, PHILIPPINES - Unilab Ideas Positive, the only social marketing congress and competition for college students in the country today, is expanding this year from Metro Manila to the entire Philippines, tapping students from the Visayas region to join and become part of this campaign. More college students will, thus, have an opportunity to help transform their chosen communities with their social marketing ideas. And because more positive ideas will be…