YTRiP is…

• An alternative education initiative of volunteer professionals that presents Philippine culture and history, volunteerism, and sustainable development in the language of today’s Filipino.
• An information and experience campaign that hopes to spread awareness and interest in all things Filipino: literature, art, travel, environment, people and sites.
• A youth-led movement that encourages and promotes domestic tourism and budget travel as means for Filipinos to experience and learn about culture, people, and places.
• A group of professionals, teachers, travelers, artists, writers, and bums who have banded together by a common love: the Philippines and nation-building.
• A people-linking project that hopes to have people of common interests to link together, and people from various backgrounds and stature to meet and learn from each other.

So the question is not WHY? But WHY NOT? Visit their website for more details.

China Bank is known to be the country’s first privately-owned universal bank in the Philippines. But its Dagupan branch's idea of customer service is also as ancient. One wonders if they train their tellers about customer service and proper handling of clients.