The Internationalization Office successfully launched the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) SDG Talks. This initiative aimed to raise awareness and drive engagement with the United Nations (UN) 17 SDG. Each week, the event will happen every Thursday from 4:00 - 5:00 in the afternoon at the SDG and IZN Corner of Panpacific University, Urdaneta Campus. Various offices are assigned with a certain SDG to present, although they are given autonomy to choose the type of activity they would like to conduct. 

During the kickoff, Mr. Kristoffer  John Panem, Lead of Internationalization, had given the significance of this event. He emphasized that this would serve as their guide, so Panpacifics would act towards SDGs.

The highlight of the first SDG Talk series on November 7 was SDG #1: No Poverty. The talk was led by the Panpacific Graduate School, focusing on the elimination of all forms of poverty by 2030 and to ensure social protection for the poor and vulnerable people. 

Dr. Danilo Alterado, Dean of the Panpacific Graduate School served as the speaker, where he mentioned that poverty is not a vast line and it should not be neglected, since it is a multidimensional issue. He also said that social justice is one of our urgent works. That equality is not the right term to tell, but instead, equity. He concluded the talk with a phrase that says:“The poverty of the poor is not simply a call to generous relief action, rather, it is a radical call that we go and build a different social order.”

In the end, every employee had a pledge of commitment to Sustainable Development Goals.