Bonding time is also wellness time for this familyThe Lopez Values of employee welfare and wellness and unity are on full display in the enduring Walk the Talk (WTT) activity.

An examination of the exercise’s eight-year life span throws up these figures: not more than 96 WTTs, some 200 people trekking 5.5 kilometers per walk on the average. This means that since 2006, almost 20,000 kapamilya have gotten to know one another and formed bonds over about 500 kilometers—on trails, roads and hills in subdivisions, parks and mall grounds in the city and outside of it. Rain or shine.

“The Group is generating like-minded people by inviting friends and family to walk,” notes Dimpy Jazmines of SKYcable, a member of the secondgeneration WTT core team.

In the WTT, the employees are free to bring along an unlimited number of their family members and friends, provided the venue and the transportation arrangements can accommodate them—the better to spread the gospel of wellness to more and more Filipinos.

The benefits of the WTT are certainly not lost on the participants, who have been heard to comment: “Maganda pala dito, nagwo-work ka na, meron pang ganito” (“This is nice, you not only work here, but you also have activities like this”); “Kaya pa pala namin maglakad ng (“We realized that we are still able to walk) five or six kilometers”; “Maganda ang venue” (“The venue is beautiful”); or “We enjoyed the venue.”