PICPA FOUNDATION SPEARHEADS GREEN PROJECT

Atty. Randy B. Blanza, PICPA National President (left) hands over a check to Dr. Erwin Vincent G. Alcala, PICPA Foundation Chairman of the Board

Visitors will soon be seeing a greener Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) national office in Mandaluyong City as PICPA Foundation held a hoisting ceremony for its latest community development project.

The hoisting ceremony involved raising dapo ferns over branches of the existing balete tree. With the slogan “PICPANS Be Counted! Let’s Turn Our Green Dreams to Reality”, the project aims to green the PICPA National Office by incorporating classy, vintage ornamental plants and eventually edible plants to the otherwise concrete surroundings of the PICPA building.

Support from PICPA members will come from donations for naming rights in the different gardens that will rise in various areas of the compound: healing garden, wall garden, hanging garden, box garden and hedge garden.

The project which is aligned with the ESG standards for an organizations behavior where E stands for Environment, S for Social, and G for Governance symbolizes PICPA’s commitment to environment stewardship and sustainability.  “We are now mindful of the environmental impact of our business,” PICPA National President Atty. Blanza said.

According to PICPA Foundation Chair Dr. Erwin Alcala, the Foundation wants to turn the national office into a green home for CPAs. “We do a lot of tasks inside the office, we use computers, we use cell phones, and these actually are contributors to pollution.  At least with a green home, it can contribute a little to the clean air that is required by CPAs visiting our headquarters.”

Dr. Alcala added that eventually they want the different chapters to replicate what they are doing at the national headquarters. “We do it here first. We are launching it here for everybody to understand the purpose of this project.”

In attendance were officers of PICPA Foundation led by Dr. Erwin Vincent G. Alcala, PICPA Foundation Chairman of the Board; Dr. Noe Quiñanola, Chairman of the Board of Accountancy, Atty. Randy B. Blanza, PICPA National President, Ms. Lolita P. Tang, PICPA Foundation Executive Director and Ms. Florencia Gorospe, Chairperson of PICPA Foundation Community Development Support Committee.