Rina Lopez-Bautista is a mother to a teenage son and a pre-school daughter, and an endearing wife to a
hardworking businessman. Her father’s family has been engaged in business for over a century, rising from
the backwoods of Jaro, Iloilo until gaining national distinction as a major business enterprise involved in
media, power generation and distribution, real estate development and telecommunications.
Notwithstanding her background, she studied in local schools, mingled with ordinary people of diverse
social backgrounds, worked and rose from the ranks and earned her monthly wages like everyone else.
But, what makes her different was her vision… a vision of a better Philippines where a community of
educated and empowered Filipinos as working relentlessly to achieve it.
A product of the Assumption College from Kindergarten to High School and a Psychology graduate of De La
Salle University, she hopes to equalize opportunities not just in education but in livelihood and job
opportunities, as well. Through the Foundation, her goal is to create a community of educated, empowered
and responsible citizens relentlessly working for a better Philippines.
Rina Lopez Bautista, this year’s Rotary International Peace Awardee for Literacy for District 3780 and the
youngest Public Service Awardee from Ateneo, is the founder and driving force behind Knowledge Channel
Foundation, Inc., the non-profit organization that manages and operates Knowledge Channel, the first and
only all-education channel on cable television in the Philippines.
Rina understood how proper education could bring about changes in our society, education being the
universal social equalizer that allows commoners to stand on equal ground with tycoons and princes. Rina
embarked on Knowledge Channel in 1999, harnessing the media resources of her family to bring
educational television as an intervention in improving the quality of education in the public school system.
Seven years after, Knowledge Channel is viewed in over 1,600 public elementary and high schools in 58
provinces nationwide, reaching from the northernmost tip of Itbayat in Batanes to the southernmost reaches
of Sitangkay in Tawi-Tawi. More than 2.7 Million poor public school children are now enjoying going to school
and learning faster and better, thanks to more than 3,000 titles of video materials aired 18 hours a day, daily,
on Knowledge Channel.
To Rina, nothing should obstruct Knowledge Channel from being watched by our poor school children,
whether they are in the mountainous hinterlands or down in the remotest islands of our archipelago. She
has braved riding bancas in the high seas of Mindanao, trekked to the mountainous wilderness of the
Visayan islands, and even walked the urban jungles of Metro Manila.
She is waging a war against ignorance and poverty, and to win this war, she has to wage peace. Rina finds
wisdom in the motto of the UNICEF, which was attributed to the American poet and chairman of the
American delegation to UNESCO in 1945, who said, “Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the
minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.”
Rina believes Knowledge Channel is more than a medium for academic instructions and learning. It is also
a medium for creating peace both in the hearts and minds of people. This year, Knowledge Channel will
launch the airing of livelihood programs geared towards helping many out-of-school youth in ARMM and
peace education programs with women and children as its main focus.
Not limited to working in the Foundation, Ms. Lopez-Bautista is also the leader of the Philippines Business-
Education Sector for the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. She is also an active member of the Global
Philanthropists Circle and a Trustee of the Assumption Alumnae Association.
A woman out to make the world a better place, Ms. Lopez Bautista was conferred the International
Association of Business Communicators (IABC) CEO Excel Award of Excellence in 2005. She also received
the “Peace Award for Literacy” by the Rotary International of Quezon City for her pioneering work in
establishing ETV in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao. Recently, she was awarded the Parangal
Lingkod Sambayanan (Public Service Award)
by the Ateneo De Manila University.
Other awards of the Foundation include:
International District 3780 has bestowed upon her the distinction of being the 2006 Peace Award for Literacy
for her challenging work in Knowledge Channel Foundation, Inc. With Rina, a more lasting peace will soon
be found, here in our own land.
hardworking businessman. Her father’s family has been engaged in business for over a century, rising from
the backwoods of Jaro, Iloilo until gaining national distinction as a major business enterprise involved in
media, power generation and distribution, real estate development and telecommunications.
Notwithstanding her background, she studied in local schools, mingled with ordinary people of diverse
social backgrounds, worked and rose from the ranks and earned her monthly wages like everyone else.
But, what makes her different was her vision… a vision of a better Philippines where a community of
educated and empowered Filipinos as working relentlessly to achieve it.
A product of the Assumption College from Kindergarten to High School and a Psychology graduate of De La
Salle University, she hopes to equalize opportunities not just in education but in livelihood and job
opportunities, as well. Through the Foundation, her goal is to create a community of educated, empowered
and responsible citizens relentlessly working for a better Philippines.
Rina Lopez Bautista, this year’s Rotary International Peace Awardee for Literacy for District 3780 and the
youngest Public Service Awardee from Ateneo, is the founder and driving force behind Knowledge Channel
Foundation, Inc., the non-profit organization that manages and operates Knowledge Channel, the first and
only all-education channel on cable television in the Philippines.
Rina understood how proper education could bring about changes in our society, education being the
universal social equalizer that allows commoners to stand on equal ground with tycoons and princes. Rina
embarked on Knowledge Channel in 1999, harnessing the media resources of her family to bring
educational television as an intervention in improving the quality of education in the public school system.
Seven years after, Knowledge Channel is viewed in over 1,600 public elementary and high schools in 58
provinces nationwide, reaching from the northernmost tip of Itbayat in Batanes to the southernmost reaches
of Sitangkay in Tawi-Tawi. More than 2.7 Million poor public school children are now enjoying going to school
and learning faster and better, thanks to more than 3,000 titles of video materials aired 18 hours a day, daily,
on Knowledge Channel.
To Rina, nothing should obstruct Knowledge Channel from being watched by our poor school children,
whether they are in the mountainous hinterlands or down in the remotest islands of our archipelago. She
has braved riding bancas in the high seas of Mindanao, trekked to the mountainous wilderness of the
Visayan islands, and even walked the urban jungles of Metro Manila.
She is waging a war against ignorance and poverty, and to win this war, she has to wage peace. Rina finds
wisdom in the motto of the UNICEF, which was attributed to the American poet and chairman of the
American delegation to UNESCO in 1945, who said, “Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the
minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.”
Rina believes Knowledge Channel is more than a medium for academic instructions and learning. It is also
a medium for creating peace both in the hearts and minds of people. This year, Knowledge Channel will
launch the airing of livelihood programs geared towards helping many out-of-school youth in ARMM and
peace education programs with women and children as its main focus.
Not limited to working in the Foundation, Ms. Lopez-Bautista is also the leader of the Philippines Business-
Education Sector for the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. She is also an active member of the Global
Philanthropists Circle and a Trustee of the Assumption Alumnae Association.
A woman out to make the world a better place, Ms. Lopez Bautista was conferred the International
Association of Business Communicators (IABC) CEO Excel Award of Excellence in 2005. She also received
the “Peace Award for Literacy” by the Rotary International of Quezon City for her pioneering work in
establishing ETV in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao. Recently, she was awarded the Parangal
Lingkod Sambayanan (Public Service Award)
by the Ateneo De Manila University.
Other awards of the Foundation include:
- • The Catholic Mass Media Serviam Award
• IABC Gold Quill Award
• Anvil Award
• Asian CSR Award for Education
• Lopez Achievement Award
International District 3780 has bestowed upon her the distinction of being the 2006 Peace Award for Literacy
for her challenging work in Knowledge Channel Foundation, Inc. With Rina, a more lasting peace will soon
be found, here in our own land.
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