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Virginia Dimayuga
Luzon Awardee, Maunlad Category
%20copy.gif) Virginia
Dimayuga is engaged in manufacturing and selling of various
native delicacies in Batangas City. Her products include
banana chips, coated and skinless peanuts, polvoron, sweet
mazapan, and pastillas. Virginia’s products are distributed
in school canteens, supermarkets, and commercial centers in
Batangas City. Her enterprise directly employs 10 workers
from her nieghborhood. Loans from Bangko Kabayan provide
Virginia the needed working capital to maintain her
business.
Saturnina Diez
Visayas Awardee, Maunlad Category
%20copy.gif) Saturnina
Diez is a vegetable farmer from Sibonga, Cebu. She is also a
trader of vegetable produce from other small farmers in her
neighborhood. She sells her products to regular buyers in
the Carbon market in Cebu City. Her initial loan from the
Cebu Micro Enterprise Development Foundation, Inc. (CMEDFI)
was used as start-up capital for trading of vegetable
produce. Saturnina directly employs 5 gardeners and 2
plowers. She also provides steady source of income to 15
vegetable growers in her neighborhood.
Rosa Mayordomo
Mindanao Awardee, Maunlad Category
%20copy.gif) Rosa
Mayordomo produces dried fish and sells the commodity in
bulk in a wholesale market in Pagadian City. Loans from KFI
Center for Community Development Foundation, Inc. provide
the means for Rosa to smoothen cash flow and grow the
enterprise to its present respectable state of business. The
enterprise provides employment opportunities to 6
individuals from her community.
Allan Geron
Luzon Awardee, Masikap Categoryy
%20copy.gif) Allan
Geron operates a bakeshop and a mini grocery in San Juan,
Batangas. Loans from Bangko Kabayan provide the means for
Allan to smoothen cash flow and grow the enterprise to its
present respectable state of business. He now has 13
employees who help him out with his business. Allan plans to
establish another branch near the resorts in San Juan,
Batangas.
Ruel Limpin
Visayas Awardee, Masikap Category
%20copy.gif) Ruel
Limpin is engaged in the junkshop or waste recycling
business. He gathers waste materials from a network of
village-based gatherers or buying stations located in the
northern towns of Leyte and in the central part of Samar.
His enterprise employs 30 individuals who sort, segregate,
and clean the scrap materials. Loans from Rural Bank of
Dulag (Leyte), Inc. provide his enterprise the necessary
working capital to purchase scrap materials. Ruel also
serves as a Barangay Captain in his community in Sta. Rita,
Samar.
Maricel Quiap
Special Citation for Outstanding Husband and Wife Partnership
in a Microenterprise
%20copy.gif) Maricel
Quiap is engaged in the business of making home furniture,
doors, door jambs, and window jambs in Baler, Quezon. Home
furniture includes chairs, tables, sala sets, dining sets,
cabinets, and coffee tables. Loans provided by Alalay Sa
Kaunlaran, Inc. (ASKI) help boost the growth of her business
to its current level. The enterprise employs 4 regular
workers and 15 contractual workers. Maricel plans to put up
a display room at the town center of Baler to make her
furniture products known, and thereby reach a wider market.
Ma. Cecilia Salarda
Special Citation for Ability to Harness Local Market
Potentials
%20copy.gif) Ma.
Cecilia Salarda is a manufacturer and distributor of balut
and salted eggs in Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental. She
has also ventured into selling of fruit shakes and peanuts
through rolling stores in Kabankalan, Bais, and Talisay in
Negros Occidental and Dumaguete City in Negros Oriental. Her
initial loan from the Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation,
Inc. (NWTF) provided her with the capital to start her balut
business. Cecilia employs 22 workers and hires contractual
workers during peak season..
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After
several years as a helper in metal crafts enterprises in San
Manuel, Isabela, Henry Bayaua formed his own agricultural
equipment business named Henrico Metal Craft. Henry’s
enterprise manufactures agricultural equipment such as rice
threshers, kuliglig, and trailers. He used his initial loan
from First Isabela Cooperative Bank (FICO Bank) to purchase
new tools and equipment to boost his production. Henry
provides livelihood to 15 regular employees and has recently
opened a branch in Libertad, Cagayan.%20copy.gif)
Aling
Mila is a duck raiser and duck egg producer from Asuncion, Davao
del Norte. She supplies duck eggs to balut makers in the town
centers of Asuncion, Kapalong and Tagum City. Milagros is also
into copra processing and charcoal making. With loans from Rural
Bank of Sto. Tomas (Davao del Norte), Inc., Milagros was able to
expand her enterprise and build up her business assets. Milagros
serves as Chairman of the Irrigators Association and Treasurer
of the Women’s Club in her barangay.