Road crashes kill 1,670 children yearly

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Children unveil a mural to urge government and stakeholders to commit to safer roads for vulnerable road users.]

Public interest law group ImagineLaw on Sunday urged the government to ‘save 1,670 children’s lives yearly by preventing road crashes in the Philippines’. According to the group, the public should be alarmed that 1,670 Filipino children and young people (0-19 years old) are killed by road crashes every year, citing data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).

“Injuries and deaths due to road crashes are preventable,” said Atty. Daphne Marcelo, ImagineLaw’s Project Manager for Road Safety, during a mural unveiling for the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims at a children’s park in Manila.

In September this year, a 4-year-old girl was killed after being hit by a sports utility vehicle (SUV) in Malate. In the same month, another 4-year-old child and his father were killed because of a road crash in South Cotabato involving more than a dozen vehicles.

“The government, in partnership with stakeholders, should continue improving road infrastructure, updating policies and enforcing traffic laws to make sure they are inclusive of children’s safety,” said Atty. Marcelo. “Playing outside or commuting to school should not be a death sentence for children,” she said.

“Every [road] death is preventable,” added Robert Siy of Move As One Coalition, a transport and mobility advocacy group. “[W]e should not pull back on our road safety campaign until we bring the number of Filipinos killed or injured from road crashes down to zero,” he also said.

According to ImagineLaw, blaming parents solely for road crash deaths among children is ‘unproductive, misguided, and myopic’. “Everyone–government and community leaders, parents and teachers, and road users–has a role to play in making our streets safe for children,” Atty. Marcelo said. “Our road system should be designed to protect the lives of the most vulnerable road users such as children and pedestrians,” she added.

“Yung ideal na kalsada po para sa isang bata na may kapansanan ay magkaroon po ng extra lane at railings (The ideal street for a child with disability should have extra lane and railings),” Hannah Estepa, a 15-year-old visually-impaired child-advocate from the Youth Alliance for Road Discipline, urged the government.

“Our streets are far too hostile for a child to even simply exercise their right to play,” said Nicole Anne Cobarrubias of AltMobility, another advocacy group. “In our commitment to building safer streets, we will be more firm in prioritizing children's safety above motor vehicles,” she also said.

2023 Hult Prize OnCampus Program: Everything You Need To Know

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by Denise Audrey T. Enriquez


A streak of good news for aspiring Filipino changemakers, as the world’s largest student movement organization for social entrepreneurship will be kicking off its annual challenge this coming November 2022 to be hosted online by De La Salle University in Taft, Manila.

The Hult Prize Foundation has launched its OnCampus Phase, happening in over 121 countries around the world and 3,000 universities and campuses. De La Salle University will be hosting its local edition for its students to tackle this year’s challenge entitled Redesigning Fashion in hopes of changing the world through social enterprise.

This year’s challenge probes on the adversities that arise from contributing to fast fashion, which often include social problems such as depletion of non-renewable resources, unethical manufacturing, excessive energy and water-use, and so much more. These contentious issues were addressed head-on by 13 contending groups through their innovative social startup ideas. These were further cultivated during the expert-led Training Session Series offered by the organization preceding its main event, the Competition Pitch Day, which will be held on November 26, 2022 on Zoom.

During the initial phase of the Global $1M USD Competition, the OnCampus Program takes place in around 2,000 college campuses around the world, on five different continents. Teams competing strive to create a social startup concept which is done through training and mentoring sessions. Contenders present their ideas to CEOs, founders, and managing directors of Philippine companies during the program's competition pitch day. The last team standing will power through to represent DLSU and the Philippines at the Impact Summits that will take place at the regional level all over the world.

For more than a decade, the Hult Prize Foundation has been transforming how young people envision their own possibilities as impact leaders of change in the world around them. Originally founded as a one-million-dollar prize startup program, the organization today is the worldwide leader in impact education and has trained and graduated more than two-million alumni across 121 countries. Indeed, it is no wonder why the organization has been considered the “Nobel Prize for Students” given its prestigious honor along with the sizable social impact that comes with the glory of facing the annual challenges.

The winners of this OnCampus event will automatically advance to compete in its Quarter Final Phase and continue on the run for its one-of-a-kind award in seed capital of 1M USD to change the world. “Sustainable social impact starts with just one idea and as the 6th iteration of the OnCampus Program in DLSU, we’ve strived to support and help cultivate these budding ideas the best we can. We have all the confidence that our Top 5 finalists will showcase the business acumen partnered with the community-centered values that Lasallians aim to embody. We hope you watch just how Lasallians can change the world!” Mariah Camille Oliveros, the current Campus Director of Hult Prize at DLSU, said.

Be in the know with the concluding competition day by staying tuned for updates on HPDLSU’s social media pages.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hultprizeatDLSU/Instagram: https://instagram.com/hultprizedlsu

4 Top Advantages of Hard Drive Data Recovery

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A damaged hard drive and lost data are the most difficult things that businesses face. You end up losing all your business and customer-centric information. Again, you lose innumerable files that you were using all these years for doing business. The files took much of your time to get as well as money and additional resources in getting those. Worry not. There is a process of recovering your hard drive data, and reinstating the drive to its previously known ideal configuration after your computer system or drive gets crashed or corrupted.

According to an article published in Forbes, companies leverage data recovery tools to prevent data loss because of hardware/software failure, software becoming corrupt, and due to human error. Data recovery software is also used to recover essential data lost as a result of natural calamities, power outages, or virus attacks.

 

1. Recover business-critical files

Using a hard drive recovery tool will let you restore your business-critical files. There are numerous files of clients, customers, employees, reports, and so on. Losing them as well as essential data imply a huge setback for operations and your organization’s reputation!If your clients learn that their sensitive data is lost, you may even face a lawsuit. You might also be sued for non-compliance by various data regulation authorities.

 

2. Easy to use

These days, you will find hard drive recovery software that is effective and user-friendly. You can use data recovery tools for business as well as personal reasons. They’re extremely easy to use and you do not need any special skills to use them. You will have to download the application, install the same, and simply run it.

After running the software, you need to choose the hard drive from where you would want to recover data and files. The software will scan that specific drive. You will view a list of the required files that you can easily recover. Choose the files you would want to recover and the application will begin the recovery process. All you need to do is copy these files to another drive in your computer system. The hard drive recovery software is professionally developedgiving you multiple options for various hard drive issues. Next, you need to choose the recovery type that is related to the drive issue you are facing. You will need to quickly recover data or files to ensure business operations aren’t interrupted.

 

3. Saves your money

When you have a foolproof and failsafe hard drive recovery process in place, expect to save much of your business dollars. Usually, traditional business with no data recovery tools ends up spending huge money in restoring countless files. There are also internet or data costs to consider. In the absence of recovery software, your team will have to spend much of their time recovering hard drive data and files rather than getting more business for the company.

There could be an additional financial loss if clients sue your business for losing or corrupting their data. Legal suits are very expensive and can rip you off financially. However, when you use data or file recovery tools in place, you can recover all files and information before your clients learn about it. You do not need to pay for legal suits.

 

4. Saves much of your valuable time

When your business loses important files and data on the system hard drive, much time is lost recovering loads of files/data. First, you need to ascertain which files are most important and that you cannot afford to lose. The process will take time because it’s impossible to remember which files are critical for your clients and which aren’t. Once you figure out which files need quick restoration, you will have to spend much of your time going to the actual source to restore those files.

If you do not have data recovery tools in place, it means you may have to recreate all essential files manually. It signifies enormous waste of time amounting to several hours of productive hours, especially for mid-sized to large companies.

That is why hard drive data recovery is the ideal solution to the problem to help you recuperate files in less time. When you have data recovery software, all you need to do is choose the files you would want to recover. It means there is no loss of productive time in recuperating files as well as data that you don’t require anymore. You just need to recover the essential files in less time. It will take a few minutes; the recovery process will be effective and quick.

 

Conclusion

Now you know about the hard drive recovery process with the use of apt tools offers loads of benefits when you lose files or data on your hard drive. So, if you have recently lost important files and data, invest in a recovery tool without delay to avoid legal hassles and expenditures.