How do you teach children the value of money, the importance of saving and the meaning of inflation? With “Estudyantipid” television-based video modules produced by Knowledge Channel, Citi Foundation and Citi Philippines, public school teachers can now simplify economic and financial concepts for their students to understand.

Rina Lopez Bautista, president and executive director of Knowledge Channel Foundation, Inc. (KCFI), spoke at the first Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Asia meeting held last December 2 to 3 at the Grand Hyatt in Hong Kong. She was a panelist for the Education working session entitled, “Bridging Digital and Learning Divides.”

Can an act as simple as going on leave from work have a significant impact on another person’s life? Apparently, it can if you choose to forego of it instead to make it count. This Christmas, employees of the various companies under the Lopez Group are making a difference in the lives of public school children across the country by donating some of their leaves to the Knowledge Channel (KCh).

From Cebu to Bohol. The 8th turnover event of the "Proficient Measures for Quality Education" project was held at Bool Elementary School, Tagbilaran City last March 14. For the "Green Mile" project, a strip of sidewalk in front of the school was swept clean by the students and volunteers from PMPMI. The area is just across the Blood Compact Monument, which is a favorite tourist/historical destination.

Cebu is the 7th recipient province of the "Proficient Measures for Quality Education" project. The turnover ceremony was held last March 12 at the Babag Elementary School, located at the highlands of Cebu City. PMPMI Managing Director Chris Nelson and KCFI Director for Channel Operations Doris Nuval led the event.

Knowledge Channel Foundation makes its contribution to environmental preservation by helping clean a beach front at San Juan, Ilocos Sur, through a project called The Green Mile. The Green Mile is a partnership project with Philip Morris Philippines Manufacturing, Inc., which involves an environmental clean-up activity in 15 provinces nationwide.

Zambales is the third provincial recipient of the Proficient Measures for Quality Education project. The partnership project between Knowledge Channel Foundation (KCFI) and Philip Morris Philippines (PMPMI) provides Knowledge Channel and textbooks in elementary Math and Science to three schools in Zambales and an Aeta-school inside the Subic Base.