Hope founder and philanthropist Nanette Medved-Po with students at a public school in 2019 Its flagship product is the bottled water Hope in a Bottle, which donates 100% of its profits to building public-school classrooms.
Apart from Nestle, major brands that have joined the program include Unilever, PepsiCo, Dunkin Donuts and Shakey’s.But as proven over the past year, the best-laid plans were shaken up by the coronavirus pandemic. However, Medved-Po noted that Hope’s nonprofit Friends of Hope, which manages the classroom-building operations, and PCEx “did very well even during the pandemic.”PCEx inked a memorandum of agreement with the City of Manila last July so that its communities can earn by selling plastic waste. Theempowers women who are sari-sari store owners to be an aggregation hub of plastic.
Since then, three more schools have been built by November. Of Hope’s 100 schools and couting, 85 are in Mindanao, and over 19,000 students are served in all the classrooms it has built.But with the shift to distance learning, are classrooms still necessary?