Celebs create ‘hope’ out of plastic bottles and t-shirts

Former actress Nanette Medved—who was Darna at the prime of her career—founded GenerationHope to help the government address classroom shortage in the country. The success of her social enterprise—out of the full profits of Hope In A Bottle Purified Drinking Water—went to build 37 classrooms.

Now married to businessman Chris Po, the 1998 summa cum laude Finance and Entrepreneurship graduate of Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, realized that Filipinos are naturally interested in buying socially and environmentally responsible brands.