{"id":8387,"date":"2023-06-03T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T09:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/?p=8387"},"modified":"2023-06-03T17:36:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T09:36:01","slug":"allianz-pnb-life-expands-ride-safe-campaign-to-support-filipino-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/allianz-pnb-life-expands-ride-safe-campaign-to-support-filipino-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Allianz PNB Life expands ride safe campaign to support Filipino families"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Bike commuting has become more mainstream in the Philippines because of the pandemic, as Filipinos sought safer and more cost-effective means of transportation during the height of the quarantine restrictions. In April 2022, data from survey company SWS showed that 7.3 million Filipino households owned a bike, one million more than its May 2021 survey result of 6.2 million. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this growing biking\ncommunity, Allianz PNB Life launched the Ride Safe initiative in 2020 to help\ncreate safer, more bike-friendly cities in Metro Manila. Through the program,\nAllianz PNB Life partnered with local government units (LGUs) and organizations\nto promote road safety and road sharing through cyclist education and by\nadvocating for bike-friendly infrastructures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sustainable futures <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though Covid restrictions\nhave been eased, many Filipinos still choose to ride their bikes to work and\nfor leisure as an efficient, low-cost, and sustainable form of transport. This\nled Allianz PNB Life to expand its CSR campaign and evolve Ride Safe into a new\nprogram. The program now incorporates a livelihood intervention component in\npartnership with global non-profit organization SOS Children\u2019s Villages\nPhilippines (SOS Philippines) and bike advocacy group Tambay Cycling Hub\n(Tambike), an independent bike repair shop in Pasig City that aims to help all\nbikers, whether recreational bikers or those who use bikes for transportation\nor livelihood. The program will provide participants with livelihood skills\nthat will help them support their families, as it has been found that poverty\nis one of the challenges in keeping a family together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through this\nentrepreneurship and bike-skills program, Allianz Ride Safe selected 9 SOS\nChildren\u2019s Village Family Strengthening program participants from Iloilo, Cebu,\nand Tacloban. The participants underwent one week of training on bike\nmaintenance and repair from instructors at Tambay Cycling Hub. The participants\nwere also equipped with entrepreneurship and financial literacy mentoring to\nhelp them start their own small businesses. During training, the participants\ndrafted a business plan and received a grant of P150,000 to set up a bike shop.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br>\n<br>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kevin Skinker, president\nof Tambay Cycling Hub, lauds the Ride Safe initiative as a vital support to the\nbiking community. \u201cWith more Filipinos taking to the road on their bikes, there\nis a need for more skilled bike mechanics and bike stores. This program will\nhelp to grow the bike community and make the world a better, safer, more\nenvironment-friendly place.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br>\nAccording to Andrea Celica Santos of SOS Children\u2019s Village, the program was\nmet with much enthusiasm by the participants who were eager to learn new skills.\n\u201cThe primary reason for the breakup of families is poverty and the lack of\nlivelihood opportunities. With this program, families can stay together and\nhave stronger foundations because they have a source of income. Our\nparticipants are motivated by the future of their families.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Program participants Renato\nGadot and\nRicky Natalyo from Iloilo agree, adding that this will help greatly in\nsupporting their families. Both of them are excitedly planning to start a\nbusiness as soon as they return home from training. Maria Filipinas Ansale, a\nmother from Tacloban, is also proud to be a participant. \u201cLearning is hard, but\nit shows that women can also do bike repairs.\u201d She previously availed of an SOS\nChildren\u2019s Village training program in cooking and is glad to have learned a\nnew skill that can help her raise her children.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Creating green jobs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new Allianz Ride Safe\nprogram not only promotes biking as an environment-friendly form of transport,\nbut it also enables the creation of sustainable green jobs to support families\nand communities. This will not only help secure the financial future of more\nFilipinos, but will also help preserve nature for future generations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Allianz PNB Life Chief\nMarketing Officer Gino Riola says, \u201cWith the brilliant revolution in terms of\ncycling, we wanted to turn this into livelihood opportunities for Filipinos.\nThe ability to make this happen is dependent on our partners, with Tambay Bike\nHub extending training to our program participants and SOS Children\u2019s Village\nproviding the platform to reach out to those in need. We are happy that we\nextended our advocacy out of Metro Manila, with Ride Safe now in the provinces.\nThe success of this program is also dependent on our participants who will work\nwith bikes in their respective communities.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Allianz Ride Safe is an\ninitiative under the Allianz PNB Life Kaagapay program that aims to teach\nfinancial literacy and aid families through microinsurance. In 2021, the Ride\nSafe campaign won the CSR Initiative of the Year at the Insurance Asia Awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More\ninformation about Ride Safe and AZPNB is available at allianzpnblife.ph or\n@allianzpnblifeofficial on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With this growing biking community, Allianz PNB Life launched the Ride Safe initiative in 2020 to help create safer, more bike-friendly cities in Metro Manila. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,13],"tags":[1810,2275,1914,1809],"class_list":["post-8387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-product-showcase","category-business-builders","tag-insurance","tag-insurance-industry","tag-insurance-policy","tag-travel-insurance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8389,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8387\/revisions\/8389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}