Pru Life UK and British Embassy Manila Partners for the 4th Chevening Scholarship
Leading life insurer, Pru Life UK co-funds its 4th
Filipino Chevening scholar with British Embassy Manila, on its 4th
year of partnership for the Chevening Scholarship Program.
Virtual Meet and Greet Ceremony Event organized by Pru Life UK’s Government Relations and the Chevening Scholarship team in the United Kingdom for Prudential business unit representatives to get acquainted with their respective Prudential Chevening Scholars for AY (2020-2021). From upper left: Gizelle Camua, Pru Life UK Vice President and Head of Corporate Affairs; Maricel Estavillo, Pru Life UK Vice President for Government Relations, Atty. Emeren Vallente, Pru Life UK Senior Vice President and Chief Legal and Government Relations. From lower left: Soysouvanh Ketsana, Prudential Laos’ Chevening Scholar; Marielle Bordado, Pru Life UK’s Chevening Scholar, and Allan Tumbaga, Pru Life UK Senior Vice President and Chief Customer Marketing Officer.
Chevening is a scholarship and fellowship program under
the UK government which aims to develop global leaders and has long been enabling
Filipino scholars to study in the UK.
Marielle
Bordado, a Communications
Officer at Philippine Development Foundation (PhilDev), who has been in the
development sector for almost 10 years, is the latest Pru Life UK Chevening
Scholar. This was announced during the virtual send-off party organized by the
British Embassy Manila attended by Marielle and other scholars, as well as representatives
of Pru Life UK and the British government in the Philippines.
Marielle Bordado, a Communications Officer at Philippine
Development Foundation (PhilDev), is the latest Chevening Scholar.
Bordado will be taking a Media, Communication, and
Development Course at the London School of Economics and Political Science for
one year. The scholarship will cover expenses such as university tuition fees,
monthly stipends, allowances package, as well as travel costs to and from the
UK.
Brought up by parents who had been working in the government
and development sector, Bordado believes in continuous learning and the impact
of storytelling in changing the values of our society. She
is an active
member of the local startup scene who aims to contribute to social
enterprises by focusing on innovation, education, and
entrepreneurship.
“I would like
to thank Pru Life UK and the people behind the Chevening Scholarship for this
opportunity, I assure you that this will materialize into something impactful.
I will strive to benefit more people with what I’ll be learning,” shares Bordado.
Marielle Bordado, latest Chevening Scholar, with her parents.
“I am looking into a life-changing experience with the
Chevening scholarship, now more than ever because of the global pandemic. I
expect to do a lot of learning and some traveling when the quarantine
restriction eases. When I go back after the graduate program, I plan to create a
knowledge management project that can help start-ups especially social
enterprises in bridging the gap on the use of communication, marketing, and
digital storytelling,” added Bordado.
“Chevening has helped many professionals pursue quality education
and build international networks and relationships. Taking part in this brings
us closer to our goal of promoting financial literacy in influential sectors of
society,” says Pru Life UK Senior
Vice President and Chief Customer Marketing Officer Allan Tumbaga.
Pru Life UK is the first and only life insurance company
in the Philippines that actively contributes to the development of some of the
country’s brightest and most aspiring young professionals in the fields of
education and finance journalism, championing the company’s advocacy of
financial literacy.
Since
2018, Pru Life UK has been a partner of the British Embassy Manila for the
Chevening Scholarship Program, which allows young Filipino professionals to
take up a one-year Master’s degree program in the UK. During the first two
years of its support for Chevening, Pru Life UK has been a partner of the
British Embassy Manila through Prudence Foundation, the community investment
arm of Prudential in Asia and Africa. The partnership has previously sent three
scholars to study in the UK, one of which is an award-winning Cha-Ching public
school teacher.
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