Ninety members of Asilo de San Vicente de Paul in Manila received free medical checkups and cough remedies in October through a partnership between Pascual Laboratories Inc. (PascualLab) and Caritas Manila. The outreach marked the pharmaceutical company’s 80th anniversary and also served as the occasion for the two organizations to sign a memorandum of agreement. PascualLab employees volunteered at the event. Through Caritas Manila’s community network and logistical support, the company plans to extend the outreach to more people in need. Products earmarked for distribution include Poten-Cee vitamin C for adults and children, lagundi leaf preparations, C-Lium Fibre food supplements and OraCare mouthrinse. The partnership is part of PascualLab’s corporate social responsibility program, Sowing to Empower, Educate and Develop (SEED). Caritas Manila, the Catholic Church’s social welfare arm, works with communities such as Asilo de San Vicente de Paul. PascualLab said the collaboration supports two United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, one focused on good health and well-being and the other on partnerships to achieve the goals. Leonora and Isosceles Pascual founded the company in 1946 to help meet demand for Vitamin C and provide tuberculosis relief in the postwar years. Over the next eight decades, the company expanded its product line to include food supplements, cough remedies and oral care products. As part of the anniversary, PascualLab also donated Ascof Lagundi Ponkan to children in need on behalf of members of the media.