The Giving Café in BGC serves coffee for a cause

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Aug 202017
 
TGC

The Giving Café (TGC), a third wave coffee shop serving specialty blends in BGC Mandaluyong, is serving coffee to help La Trinidad, Benguet farmers sustain their operations.

The Giving Café is the newest social enterprise operated by coffee solutions provider Henry and Sons (H&S) to support the company’s advocacy arm, the Foundation for Sustainable Coffee Excellence (FSCE).

The TGC offers the Bloom Coffee range of specialty coffee each crafted to directly fund a specific farmer assistance program such as:

  • The Giving Well – to fund atmospheric water generators that provide clean and potable water to farming communities
  • Cup to Seed – to fund livelihood projects which the farmer communities can engage in between harvests
  • Coffee for Great Minds – to fund educational needs
  • Beans for Little Ones – to fund basic health care for children of farmers
  • Beans Within Reach – to launch activities that connect local and global buyers to the farmers and their products

“What we’re trying to do is support the farmers, to help them put Filipino Arabica back in the global spotlight. We want the effort directed at that,” Henry and Sons CEO Michael Harris Conlin said in an ABSCBN report.

Bloom Coffee

The Bloom Coffee range offer products of the blending and roasting of Arabica beans from around the world with local Philippine beans from Benguet.

TGC has marked 1% of the total sales per drink to go to the implementation of a specific FSCE initiative.

The Giving Café joins the FSCE initiatives that include The Giving Caravan, a roving Kombi Volkswagen café giving out free cups of coffee in BGC streets, and The Giving Cart.

 

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Fire bureau: BGC unit owners required to do self-inspection of condos

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Jul 102013
 
Fire bureau: BGC unit owners required to do self-inspection of condos

The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) is now requiring homeowners in Bonifacio Global City to conduct their own inspection of their units following the explosion at the Two Serendra condominium on May 3. The bureau will start giving out a “self-safety assessment and evaluation” checklist for the tenants to complete starting Wednesday, BFP officer-in-charge Carlito Romero said. “Safety is a shared responsibility and interest… We’re on the same boat. This is a consultation, so we welcome comments,” Romero said in a statement. An interagency task force determined that a gas leak caused the explosion, which claimed the lives of four persons, including three whose vehicle was crushed by a wall that was ripped off the unit. The unit’s tenant, Angelito San Juan, succumbed to burns on July 4. The owners should submit their accomplished checklists to their building administrators, the fire bureau said. “Take advantage of this period, after which we will issue directives with or without comments,” Romero said. Unit owners and building administrators have until July 19 to comment on the checklists, and have from July 20 to 26 to accomplish them, Romero said. After an inspection and a directive to be issued in August, the BFP will inspect the units in BGC every three months, said Taguig city administrator Joel Montrales in the statement. “For this to work, we need 100-percent compliance,” he added. The Department of Interior and Local Government is expected to release the final report on the blast in two weeks’ time. Foreign experts Read More …