‘Better World’ doors

Pictured are the doors to Better World Diliman, the third community center under San Miguel Corp.’s flagship “Better World” communities program. It serves as a ready market for excess produce bought from farmers at better-than-farmgate prices and sold to consumers and resellers for low prices. SMC President and CEO Ramon S. Ang also lauded the company’s partner — social enterprise Rural Rising Philippines, which runs the day-to-day operations of Better World Diliman — for its dedication to helping farmers. Rural Rising works with cooperatives all over Luzon, from Benguet province to Quezon, to bring their excess produce to the center.