Sustained support to women entrepreneurs. We experienced active women in the rural villages who want to improve their standards of living via the implementation of small-scale livelihood enterprises. We are keen in supporting them and then rolling-over their repayments to other needy beneficiaries in a passing-on-the-gift scheme. These are short-term, well monitored and managed project in order to ensure that our little resources really improves the lives of our beneficiaries. Thanks so much to friends and supporters who are partnering with us in this initiative. Mabuhay!
Meet Cora Sayre, a 2018 Disaster Feedback Fellow of the Disaster Recovery Network at GlobalGiving. T he country Cora Sayre calls home is one of the most vulnerable to climate change in the world. She has seen the increasing intensity of typhoons over the last decade—and made it her life’s mission to help rural farming communities in the Philippines become more resilient to devastating disasters and volatile economic conditions. Cora and her husband founded the nonprofit Water, Agroforestry, Nutrition and Development Foundation (WAND) in 2008. “Both of us were born poor,” she said, “and it kindled a desire in our hearts to really uplift ourselves and help other people who are like us to gain their voice and be active partners in their development.” The destructive power of typhoons in the Philippines has intensified by 50% in the past 40 years due to warming seas, according to a North Carolina at Chapel Hill study. “In 2013, when Typhoon Haiyan struc...
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