Mother’s Day is all about commemorating moms everywhere and celebrating their love, kindness and inspiration. It is a time for thoughtful gifts, cheerful family gatherings and unique ways of showing them how much their kids care. It also serves as a reminder about the less fortunate children who grow up without devoted mothers, and urge kind souls to do their share to help.

This Mother’s Day, the Philippines’ online shopping mall LAZADA is teaming up with World Vision, the international community development organization, to improve the lives of underprivileged children across the country through special Mother’s Day gift cards. These limited series World Vision Mother’s Day gift cards are available for P600 until May 20 at www.lazada.com.ph/worldvision .

“When you purchase this World Vision Mother’s Day card, a donation in her name will be made in honor of your mother,” said Jun Godornes, Associate Director of World Vision. “This donation will go to World Vision’s Child sponsorship program that enables children from a poor community to be educated, cared for and protected against poverty and injustice.”

Since its inception, LAZADA has become the number one destination for online shopping and gift inspirations in the Philippines. With over 20,000 products ranging from consumer electronics, gadgets, home and living, clothing and accessories, this leading one-stop online shop caters to all lifestyles and tastes. It is known for its flexible payment terms, such as cash on delivery and credit card payments, and offers free shipping for purchases above P1,000, seven-day return policy, and excellent customer service.

For more than 55 years, World Vision has been committed to eliminating poverty and its root causes, uplifting the lives of more than 100,000 Filipino children every year. Many more, however, are still in need of aid. “Adding the Mother’s Day gift card to your order will not only put a smile on the sponsored child’s face, but will also tug at the heartstrings of any mother,” said LAZADA’s Vice-President for Marketing Paul Mendoza.

Getting these special Mother’s Day gift cards serves as an initial step to the exciting journey of being a World Vision Child sponsor and making an indelible change in a child’s life. To sign up as a sponsor, one merely has to reply with the code inside the Mother’s Day gift card.

For more information on the World Vision Mother’s Day gift cards and other gift inspirations, visit www.lazada.com.ph .

About LAZADA

LAZADA is Southeast Asia’s fastest growing online store, with presence in five countries – Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines. As the Philippines’ Online Shopping Mall, LAZADA offers over 20,000 consumer products, ranging from electronics, gadgets, fashion and accessories, to health and beauty categories, as well as home appliances. LAZADA offers its customers a safe and convenient online shopping experience that is paired with excellent service, including multiple payment options, such as cash-on-delivery, free returns available and warranty commitments. With the widest product offering online in the country LAZADA is the Philippines’ leading one-stop online shop that caters to all lifestyles and tastes.

About World Vision

World Vision is an international community development organization that provides short-term and long-term assistance to 100 million people worldwide. World Vision Philippines works in more than 43 provinces from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao and carries the vital work of providing care and protection to the children in several villages nationwide.

For 55 years, World Vision Philippines has been engaging people to work towards eliminating poverty and its causes. World Vision is committed to helping the poor and works with people of all cultures, faiths and genders to achieve transformation. World Vision achieves this through emergency relief, long-term development projects, advocacy, collaboration and education.

World Vision depends on the support of the Filipino public for funding, with the majority of income coming from Child Sponsorship. Other funding avenues include emergency relief appeals, Federal Government grants, cash donations and corporate partnerships, such as this joint Mother’s Day campaign with Lazada. 

Paul Mendoza, VP of Marketing Lazada

Inanc Balci, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Lazada

Angela Aberin, Director of Finance World Vision

Jun N. Godornes, Associate Director World Vision

***This article is from Lazada.com.ph  for Lazada + World Vision Mother's day campaign .

What : Early Christmas Noche Buena project for the WV kids in Zambales

When : November 10, 2012 
Where : Iba, Zambales | meeting place at the World Vision office at Quezon Avenue corner West 6th Street, QC at 6:00 am and we’ll leave the community at 5:00 pm the same day
Who : World Vision Philippines invites all bloggers and writers in Metro Manila

The World Vision, a Christian relief and advocacy organization dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. We are currently working in at least 100 countries all over the world and in 55 provinces in the Philippines.

One of World Vision’s flagship programs is Child Sponsorship, where we encourage sponsors to donate PhP 600/month to support a child’s education. Through the years, we have seen many of our sponsored children become successful in their careers and are now actively involved in helping children themselves. Two of the most notable World Vision sponsored children are 2009 CNN hero of the Year Efren Peñaflorida and Philippine Coast Guard spokesperson Lt. Comm. Armand Balilo. World Vision currently supports over 35,000 children in our area development programs (ADPs) all over the country.

In line with this, we would like to invite you to join us in one of our Christmas projects for our sponsored children. We are inviting some bloggers and other writers to participate in a community visit to one of our development areas in Zambales on Saturday, 10 November 2012. This event is a prelude to our annual Christmas event for children where we give each of our 35,000 sponsored children a noche buena pack for the family and a gift of their choice.

We are sure that this will be a worthwhile experience to the bloggers as they get to interact with kids and a community supported by World Vision. We’ll also be preparing a program where the children will share their Christmas stories. It will be a one-day event and World Vision will shoulder all expenses (transport,food, etc.) In the event that you would need to stay overnight, we will also shoulder the lodging costs.

We hope you could join us in our campaign to make Christmas brighter and more meaningful for our sponsored children. For more information, please call 0917-8971894 and look for Anthony Valenzuela or call World Vision Philippines at (02) 374-7618.
 

-Repost from VideoBlogsPH