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For 25 years, PSFI has been innovating means by which to help people go further in life through the conduct of various programs.

Representatives from Petro China and Shell companies in the Netherlands, Egypt, Iran, New Zealand, Australia, and other Asian countries learned from PSFI’s experiences in managing sustainable development programs.

Shaima Al-Lawati, Social Investment Manager of Shell Representative Oman, and Sukardi Suparjan, Social Investment Manager of Brunei Shell Petroleum  spent three weeks in the Philippines to learn from PSFI’s experiences in managing sustainable development programs.

PSFI moves to improve English proficiency through the Specialized English Enhancement Course for High School and Elementary Teachers (SPEECH) Program.

Through the Northern Palawan Sustainable Livelihood Program, El Nido now has a slaughterhouse that is both hygienic and environment-friendly.

PSFI officers and staff share their personal experiences and visions for PSFI.

Shell retailers talk about the successes of “Gas Mo Bukas Ko” and encourages other retailers to support the program.

Four former-Executive Directors of PSFI reminisce their terms and suggest how PSFI may further its mission.

PSFI’s non-corporate partners and couple Gonzalo, Jr. and Mary Villarin share their passion for helping others and why it is always rewarding to lend a hand.

PSFI Chairman Cesar A. Buenaventura tells of the humble beginnings of PSFI and shares his visions on what PSFI will labor to achieve in the future.

Shell companies in the Philippines Country Chairman Edgar O. Chua discusses the importance of keeping a healthy population, and the growing need for PSFI, Shell, and the business community to help manage health programs.

Palawan Distict 1 Representative Antonio C. Alvarez and District 2 Representative Abraham Kahlil B. Mitra talk about PSFI’s programs in Palawan.

PSFI has had varying degrees of participation in health programs.

The secret to the success of Kilusan Ligtas Malaria is in making community-based malaria control measures work from bottom to top.

Palaweños benefit from surgeries conducted by PSFI and its partners: Operation Bright Eyes, Operation Smile, and surgeries performed by Physicians for Peace.

Programang Pagkalusugan ng Mamamayang Nagkakaisa (PAMANA) sa Pandacan aims to ensure the health of residents by improving access and delivery of basic health services.

Lingap sa Kalusugan ng Palawan taps Barangay Health Workers to guard communities against common diseases.

Impok pang-Kalusugan (IpK) is a health micro-insurance program implemented by PSFI in TALIM, Batangas.

PSFI launches Expanded Impok pang-Kalusugan (E-IpK) in TALIM, Batangas and introduces IpK in Palawan.

PSFI's health programs help far-flung communities like Sta. Teresa, Narra in Palawan become capable of diagnosing and treating malaria and other common illnesses.

Yoyon Rebueno, Gladys Luminario, and Manong Bitoy share their field experiences in implementing Kilusan Ligtas Malaria.

Mary Vil Diate, 22, makes her jewelry business grow by applying business management skills she learned from the Shell National Youth Business Camp.

Four beneficiaries of Suporta sa Buhay (SUHAY) in TALIM, Batangas relate how they are faring as entrepreneurs and how SUHAY changed their lives.

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, Department of Health, and World Health Organization have integrated their strategies and resources to help fight malaria in the Philippines thru the Movement Against Malaria.

On 4 July 2007, Pilipinas Shell Foundation, Inc., Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (GFATM), Department of Health (DOH), and the World Health Organization (WHO) organized a Media Orientation and Engagement on Malaria at the Manila Golf Club, Forbes Park, Makati City to solicit media support in raising public awareness on malaria.

Long-lasting Insecticide-Treated Nets, known to effectively control malaria transmissions, are ready for distribution in MAM sites.

PSFI obtains the commitment of New Tribes Mission, Agape Rural Program, Sulu Ulama Council, and local government units of Palawan, Apayao, Quirino, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi in implementing MAM.

PSFI named Principal Recipient of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria-Malaria Component Round 5.

MAM launched in Apayao, Quirino, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi.

A team of malaria experts manages the Movement Against Malaria and knows what it takes to make the program work on the ground.

Four women of PSFI present their life stories as they take on a mission to make the Movement Against Malaria work in Apayao, Quirino, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi.

Atlantic Gulf and Pacific Company of Manila, Inc. shares its strategies in keeping the best people within its organization.  AG&P hosts internship for PSFI welding scholars and employs qualified scholars.

PSFI scholar Edgardo Etac shares his life as a plain Visayan lad to becoming the Managing Director of Laguna Electronics, Inc.

Shell gas station staff cum Gas Mo Bukas Ko scholars express their appreciation for the scholarship program and tell about how GMBK is changing their lives.

PSFI partners with various academic institutions to implement its technical and vocational skills training programs.

Keppel talks about its skills development program and its partnership with PSFI.

Levi Strauss Philippines, Inc. looks back at the factors that made its partnership with PSFI in the 1980s successful. Former scholars employed at LSPI attest to the success of the training program.

Aboitiz-Metaphil, based in Cebu City, helps PSFI train young welders from Tagbilaran City, Bohol and get them employed.

PSFI scholar Mike Nacua survives the odds of his childhood.  He speaks about his life as a father, brother, salesman, and entrepreneur.

SAKA scholar Pepe Paoner reminisces the challenges of being a PSFI scholar and shares how his training is helping him develop his lands and run his own furniture shop.

PSFI scholars and now Puerto Princesa Depot Manager Bernie Marco, Culasi Depot Manager Jeffrey Devilles, and Lapus Depot Cashier Jessie Seguerra share their journey to the top.

The SKIL training program PSFI implemented with Toyota Motor Philippines Corporation continues to reap successes thru the accomplishments of its former trainees and now Toyota employees.

Panasonic Communications Philippines Corporation Human Resource and Administration Manager Mary Ann Diaz shares the PCP philosophy that the true measure of profit is when a company is able to spend for programs that benefit the community.

PSFI trained scholars for Philippine Airlines in the 1980s who are going up and going to places as they yield the fruits of their hard work and perseverance.

Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation-Retail, the Association of Petroleum Shell Dealers, Inc., and Pilipinas Shell Foundation partnered for “Gas Mo Bukas Ko”, a scholarship program that seeks to provide a better future for Shell station staff through capability building programs that will enhance their employability and livelihood skills.

Roger Reyes, former SAKA Director at the Pampanga Agricultural College, shares his views on how SAKA’s sustainability may be improved.

PSFI gives two of its agricultural programs a facelift with the help of inoculants.

Why PSFI ventured into agricultural programs and how these have evolved over the past two decades.

Marinez Seracarpio-Dingcol, a former SAKA scholar, tells how she became an agricultural estate developer.

A former SAKA Project Officer dreams of reviving SAKA at Pampanga Agricultural College.

PSFI continues to believe there is future in farming thus, it holds SAKA courses in Palawan and Mindoro.

Former SAKA scholar Fernando Sanque shares why failure is never an option.

Dr. Ruperto Sangalang, President of Cavite State University, talks about how farming can survive in the age of globalization and why it is imperative it must.

PSFI introduces the Community Skills Training and Accreditation Program in Bicol.

PSFI expands SKIL to include electronic SKIL which caters to the skills needed by the business process outsourcing industry.

Animation Skills Development Course graduate Bal Bautista shares his life before and after being employed at Toon City.

PSFI offers the Animation Skills Development Course to youth skilled in sketching and who aspire to become professional animators.

Former SKIL (Industrial Electronics) graduate Boyet Pasman now works as an Industrial Technician for I&E, an accredited contractor at the Pandacan Depot Services.

A total of 163 youths from Palawan, Mindanao, Muntinlupa City, Pandacan, Batangas, Bicol, Pililla, Tagbilaran, and Oriental Mindoro learned entrepreneurial skills during the conduct of Youth Business Camp 2007.

Jhey Hawari knows what it takes to become a seasoned entrepreneur - - never give up because sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.