Sharp celebrates 110 years of transforming lives
Sharp Corporation celebrates its 110th year anniversary with the introduction of a new management system to realize transformation giving emphasis on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) and raise its social value and revitalize its brand for sustainable growth. Its introduction of ESG shows the companies’ vision of providing better health, sustainable environment, and innovative solutions for the people while providing a conducive environment to grow.
Founded in 1912 by Tokuji Hayakawa in a metalworking shop in Tokyo, Sharp is a worldwide developer of innovative products and core technologies that play a key role in shaping the future of electronics. Sharp sets its business vision as “Changing the World with 8K+5G and AIoT.”
To achieve its vision, Sharp uses its three core brand businesses, Smart Life, 8K Ecosystem, and ICT, along with two device businesses, Display Devices and Electronic Devices that support them, in an integrated fashion in pursuit of “One Sharp” business.
Sharp has continued to introduce unique products and solutions including world-firsts and Japan-firsts resulting in many milestones over its history with notable products and solutions including the AQUOS LCD TVs, photovoltaic power generation (Solar power, 1959), the Plasmacluster air purifying technology (2020), the world’s first all-transistor calculator in 1964, mobile phones, convection microwave ovens, multi-copier, and millions of face masks. These include:
Such activities over all these years have been recognized by various worldwide institutes, including IEEE(The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), the world’s largest academic society for electrical, electronics, information, and telecommunications engineering, recognizing three individual developments by Sharp as IEEE Milestones including “Pioneering Work on Electronic Calculators”, “Commercialization and Industrialization of Solar Cells”, and “Sharp 14-inch Thin-Film-Transistor Liquid-Crystal Display (TFT-LCD) for TV.”
World Vision joins Globe’s Hapag Movement to help alleviate hunger
Christian humanitarian organization World Vision Development Foundation is the newest member of the Globe of Good ecosystem of partners, as it has joined Globe’s hunger alleviation program, the Hapag Movement.
World Vision’s participation will contribute significantly to the larger goal of feeding and empowering 100,000 families or half a million individuals within four years.
The Hapag Movement is Globe’s united fight against hunger through technology. It helps address the problem of involuntary hunger and joblessness affecting millions of low-income Filipinos by connecting multi-sectoral partners and mobilizing local and international donations from multiple sources.
As a global group devoted to improving the lives of children and their communities, World Vision joins other Globe partners– the Ayala Foundation, Caritas Philippines, and the Tzu Chi Foundation– in a holistic intervention to benefit vulnerable families in the country.
Hapag’s community support includes food distribution programs in the most disadvantaged communities, capacity-building sessions for upskilling and micro-entrepreneurship, provision of seed capital through microlending to jumpstart livelihood activities, and access to employment opportunities via partner companies.
Specifically, World Vision’s livelihood programs under the Hapag Movement center on financial literacy, capacity-building for the Antique CoMSCA Credit and Cooperative (AnCCC), with plans to put up a mini grocery and meat processing business.
It also includes swine dispersal and basket weaving training, as well as the Himaya 2 Fishing Boat Project, which aims to increase the daily income of fishing families in the program area.
The Hapag Movement is anchored on Globe’s Alagang Globe campaign, focusing on the company’s ecosystem of relevant services and products which enable Filipinos to uplift their lives.
Globe invites its customers and partners to help put food on the table for every family in need. They may donate via GCash or use their Rewards points to support the movement through the New GlobeOne app.
Soil Rejuvenation: ENVIRO helps Filipino farmers bring soil back to life
Every crop season, farmers use more and more chemical inputs to keep up with the yield and high quality needed for harvest. This creates a vicious cycle feeding the need for the chemical fertilizers that strip the soil of essential nutrients. To combat this anti-productive practice, ENVIRO’s agripreneurs have introduced BioFertilizers to Filipino farmers. This sustainable method has been proven to bring soil back to its healthiest state of biodiversity and nutrition, increasing yields by 30-40%.
ENVIRO has partnered with globally accredited specialists, government research centers, top universities, and the best scientists to bring forward an innovative product that doesn’t only benefit our environment, but also the nation’s food security. One of the company’s main missions is to achieve Balance Fertilization, or the practice of bringing our soil back to its healthiest state.
Research has shown that the use of BioFertilizers have increased farmer’s crop yields by 30-40%, while cutting costs by at least 30-50% —making it a highly sustainable, cost-efficient method of farming.
With ENVIRO’s BioFertilizers, farmers are risk free as the product significantly lowers environmental pollution and reduces greenhouse gas emission. Finally, prices for their products have been specifically designed for farmers.
ENVIRO highly encourages soil rejuvenation, knowing that there would be no future without it. “We need to do it today,” ENVIRO co-founder Prashat Dargani explains.
The agripreneurs behind ENVIRO have built the organization on the mission of changing how farming is done, rather than trying to introduce “trendy” organic farming trends. They have also partnered with government agencies particularly, the Department of Agriculture.
By introducing this sustainable method of farming, ENVIRO hopes that they will leave a big impact on the Agricultural Sector by “saving our soil.”
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