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Filipinos who want to contribute to environmental preservation can now conveniently use an innovative mobile phone app to help plant trees and increase the Philippines’ forest cover.  Leading mobile wallet, GCash, Is introducing an exciting ”green” feature on the app called GCash Forest, which lets subscribers plant virtual trees that will have real-Iife counterparts. By the end of 365 days, GCash Forest aims to plant 365 thousand trees with the help of GCash subscribers.  According to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources’ Forest Management Bureau (FMB), the Philippines is losing 47,000 hectares of forest cover every year. The FMB also reported the need to rehabilitate 1.2 million hectares of forest lands by 2022 to prevent landslides, ensure water availability, and preserve biodiversity . “GCash Forest is about making it easier, more convenient, and even rewarding for everyone to take care of our environment for the benefit of future gener...

I did not know that Tilapia can be cooked in so many ways till I went to Laurel Batangas. Laurel, officially the Municipality of Laurel, is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Batangas, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 39,444 people. Laurel had been part of Talisay, its current neighbor town. The town used to be known as Bayuyungan. I was invited to witness their very popular Tilapia Festival by having a lot of activities. One of the activities that I participated as a judge was the MASTER CHEF COMPETITION. The contest had 2 divisions; the junior division and the senior division. The junior division was participated by the high school students and the senior division consist of chefs from different restaurants around the area. All of them should present their 3 different dishes. Pasta dish, Asian dish and Creative dish. It was just so amazing tasting a lot of dishes by only using the main ingr...

Can’t think of any other way to Spice up my night yesterday than feasting at the newly opened  FIERY STYLE  at the 2nd level of EASTWOOD MALL QC. This restaurant gave the  Hungry byaheros  in me a glimpse of what the southwestern countries have to offer in terms of food. Eastwood City is a familiar place for me as this is where I worked for 4 years. After strolling around the place I was in search for a good place to eat and relax before heading home. I was to eat at a place that is familiar to me but something caught my attention. FIERY STYLE SOUTHWESTERN FLAMING GRILL was written on the signeage and there was even a video giving the passersby a glimpse of what they have to offer. After watching the video I entered the resto, checked their Menu and ordered for me and my friends. I knew we were in for a fun and satisfying night. Started by having the FIERY NACHOS(388php) together with some cocktails. From left to right: Strawberr...

PHOTOS AND WRITE UP BY AMALAKWATSERA OF HB FAM GCash made life easier and convenient for most of us and now they have once again raised the bar for execellence by creating a program which will not only look out for the welfare of loyal GCash users but as well as the community. Proving that geographical location does not matter when it comes to helping GCash launched its new program GCash for Good in Davao held in Park Inn Hotel Davao City on June 4, 2019. GCash for Good - a pioneering corporate social responsibility program that enables Filipinos to donate to non-government organizations (NGOs) that champion worthy advocacies from education, environment to animal welfare and the likes. It is a platform for everyone to create change, to make a change and to have an impact and contribute to our society, community, and environment. #GCashforGood made helping much esier and convenient for everyone to practice and exercise. With just a few clicks you get to help other and make a diffe...