Roberto Lavina
alumni of the Haggai Institute
It’s great how God’s using the Haggai Institute (HI's) Mid-Pacific Center on Maui to change life in the Philippines through a national volunteer program.
Speaking on his experience at the Haggai Institute, Roberto Lavina, alumni of the Institute said that the H.I. volunteers are not just the people who keep the Mid-Pacific Center in five-star condition but that they are an integral part of the impact H.I. makes on the leaders who join its seminars.
He stated: "I heard many say that Haggai Institute transforms lives. And it's true: the H.I. international session at Maui made me change tracks altogether."
Lavina continued: "I returned to the Philippines and accepted the position of Chief Operating Officer of Phinma. It is a conglomerate of companies that have invested in running schools, building affordable housing, generating power and financing oil explorations, among a myriad of nation-building activities."
On the many impact and differences that Haggai training made in his life Lavina said that he used his position and influence in the organization to ensure everyone follows ethical and moral principles at work, and that they choose only those projects that glorify God's name.
“But also, I was inspired by the volunteer program at the Mid-Pacific Center in Maui. I started a similar program in our group, calling it the Phinma Hero Network.It took off successfully, and today Phinma has hundreds of volunteers engaged in various programs that make life better for our fellow Filipinos,” he stressed.
Passive corporate social responsibility has now turned into individual social passion which is having a deep impact on society Lavina said adding that this is how Haggai Institute enabled him to change tracks. “You leave your past behind and bring your future to the present. You want to tell the whole world about it. For me, Haggai Institute training has been that meaningful.”
He noted that before H.I. training, he was serving himself, and seeing merely to the needs of his immediate family and church members adding that after his exposure in HI, he started to see himself as an agent of change in his country.
According to him, the volunteer program has come to stay adding that the Hero Network celebrated its first anniversary last year: "It will endure whether or not I am in it. That is what the H.I. spirit is all about. Freely I received, now freely I give."
Lavina noted that the mission of the PHINMA Hero Network is to inspire volunteerism among the PHINMA Group employees and that it aims at elevating the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) into individual social responsibility (ISR) where employees take the initiative to give back to the community in their personal capacity.
“In pursuit of our mission, we will promote, instill and support employee volunteerism.
We will consistently promote the CSR projects of the various companies under the PHINMA Group as well as external advocacies of non-government organizations,” he said.
He said that they will support and sustain volunteerism by collaboration with management and HR, internal communication, and fundraising activities stating that the PHINMA Hero Network is an advocacy campaign for the PHINMA Group of Companies, aimed at transforming its workforce into helpful employee responsible for others.
He stated: “The goal of this campaign is to encourage PHINMA Group employees to live and practice volunteerism in whatever cause or community they hold dear to their hearts, thus being heroes in their own way. This is living PHINMA’s philosophy of “Life can be better”.
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