April 15, 2024

Entrepreneurship & Livelihood

Filed under: Entrepreneurship & Livelihood — Joshua Sarmiento @ 3:48 pm

Vision
A leader of a big and energetic group of movers, shakers and influencers who are pasionate and eager to promote entrepreneurship.

Mission



Pondo sa Sipag Puhunan sa Tiyaga



As part of its celebration of its 100th Founding Anniversary in 2007, the Nacionalista Party (NP) together with its partners, Villar SIPAG, Sipag at Tiyaga Foundation, and Vista Land launched the “Pondo sa Sipag, Puhunan sa Tiyaga” Awards. The award aims to promote entrepreneurship as a way of combating poverty.

This is a nationwide search for outstanding micro-entrepreneurs who exhibit determination, hard work, and the ability to make a positive contribution in their communities.

As Sipag at Tiyaga Foundation Chairman and Nacionalista Party President, Senator Manny Villar extols, “The awardees exemplify the collective spirit of the Filipinos in overcoming their limitations, handicaps, and personal tragedies. In the process of transforming themselves, they create positive ripple effects on their local communities, quietly and mostly without fanfare.”

In order to inspire more Filipinos to follow the path of entrepreneurship and contribute to nation-building, the life stories of the awardees are compiled and featured in a book entitled Stories. The three editions of this book include:

 Stories – Awardees (2008)
 Stories – Awardees (2009)

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Pondo Sa Sipag Puhunan sa Tiyaga 2009

Filed under: Entrepreneurship & Livelihood — Joshua Sarmiento @ 3:48 pm

The Nacionalista Party (NP) together with its partners, Villar SIPAG, Sipag at Tiyaga
Foundation, and Vista Land selected 60 promising entrepreneurs out of thousands that responded
to the 2009 search of “Pondo sa Sipag, Puhunan sa Tiyaga” in awarding ceremonies held at the NBC
tent at The Fort, Global City in Taguig.

The award aims to promote entrepreneurship as a way of combating poverty.

The 2009 national winners receiving a capital grant of Php100,000 each were Rufo dela Cruz of
Calasiao, Pangasinan (Bella’s Puto Calasiao) and Elisa Tomas of Quirino (Melizabeth Food Products).

The other awardees were given P20,000 each to boost there available capital.

The northern and central Luzon awardees were:
Carlo Balneg (Abra)
Dominador Codio (Benguet)
Sr. Gabriela Dargiwan (Kalinga)
Valentino Vicerra (Apayao)
Angelina Tagay (Ilocos Norte)
Elisa Abaya (Ilocos Sur)
Romy Urbano (La Union)
Armando Macatuggal (Quirino)
Marvin Mapote (Isabela)
Perlita Tiburcio (Nueva Vizcaya)
Lucila Eugenio (Nueva Ecija)
Conchita Hernandez (Aurora)
Rodolfo Molina (Tarlac)
Pamela Santos (Bataan)
Remedios Udad (Pampanga)
Prisco del Moro (Bulacan)

The winners from Southern Luzon were:
Ramelito Barte (Quezon)
Liza Perez (Laguna)
Josephine Tacasa (Oriental Mindoro)
Francisco Aranda (Sorsogon)
Gregorio Basallote (Camarines Sur)
Andres Canada (Camarines Norte)
Asah Conde (Masbate)
Imelda Dado Moratillo (Albay)
Floro Teano (Catanduanes)

The lone awardee from the National Capital Region was Susana Santiago of Valenzuela City.

Winners from Visayas region were:
Meraluna Pascadero (Negros Oriental)
Marybeth and Gabriel Sanoria (Cebu)
Amy Alico (Southern Leyte)
Joel Marquez (Leyte)
Lorna Celespara (Northern Samar)
Delita Montes (Eastern Samar)

The awardees from Mindanao were:
Eric Philip Macaso (Zamboanga City)
Edgardo Tagalogon (Zamboanga Sibugay)
Jubella Acera (Camiguin)
Lilia Caga-anan (Misamis Oriental)
Dionesia dela Pena (Misamis Occidental)
Ofelia Gamao (Bukidnon)
Rufina Anunciado (Davao del Norte)
Reynaldo Deodor (Davao City)
Florita Duag (Compostella Valley)
Fe Sarabillo (Davao del Sur)
Camilo Falcis (South Cotabato)
Margarita Abaquita (Agusan del Norte)
Jonathan Abayon (Agusan del Sur)
Romeo Amahan (Surigao del Norte)
Henry Capangpangan (Dinagat Island)
Leah Labordo (Surigao del Sur)

A select group of winners were named under the overseas Filipino worker (OFW) category:
Gemma Victoria (La Union)
Elisa Tomas (Quirino)
Trinidad and Mario Yabes (Nueva Ecija)
Romero Escio (Camarines Norte)
Gregorio Palermo (Iloilo)
Rosario Bation (Misamis Occidental)
Rokaiya Kasan (South Cotabato)
Zenaida Acaso (Basilan)
Julia Buteng (Benguet)
Leornardo Beniga (Agusan del Norte)
Nimfa Sagaral (Surigao del Norte)

As Sipag at Tiyaga Foundation Chairman and Nacionalista Party President, Senator Manny Villar
extols, “The awardees exemplify the collective spirit of the Filipinos in overcoming their limitations,
handicaps, and personal tragedies. In the process of transforming themselves, they create positive
ripple effects on their local communities, quietly and mostly without fanfare.”

To inspire more people to make their own stories “success stories”, a brief life chronicle of the awardees
are featured in the book Stories (2009 Awardees).*

 (Click here) 2008 Awardees

*[To request for a free copy of the book, please write your request to the Villar SIPAG with your
complete name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.]

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Caravan Kaalaman

Filed under: Entrepreneurship & Livelihood — Joshua Sarmiento @ 3:47 pm

The Manpower on Wheels (MOW) first rolled out in 1993 as a mobile laboratory training school providing free employable skills training to help uplift the lives of the poor and the needy residents of Las Piñas and Muntinlupa. MOW is a joint project of the Villar SIPAG and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA).

In 2001, MOW went nationwide as the Sipag at Tiyaga Caravan Kaalaman.


Caravan Kaalaman is a livelihood seminar program of the Villar SIPAG. seeking to provide housewives and out of school youth nationwide skills training the skills necessary help them become micro entrepreneurs and generate income for their families. Since 2001, the Caravan has been to all provinces and regions in the country and has equipped many Filipinos with worthwhile skills.

The courses offered include: meat processing native kakanin-making, candle making, fruit juice processing and preservation, fish processing, coconut processing, condiments making, pickled products processing, sasso chicken growing, herbal medicine processing and Soya products processing among others.

On special request, training in water hyacinth (“waterlily”) basket and slippers making is also offered.

This program believes that the best way to help the poor fight poverty is by providing them the skills and access to resources and materials to start their own business. Transforming idle human resource into productive entrepreneurs is a clear path towards achieving economic independence.

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Kalusugan Caravan

Filed under: Health & Social Services — Joshua Sarmiento @ 3:45 pm

Mission Statement
To provide health and social services to people who need it the most, at the time they most need it.

Our Values
We care about people.

We teamwork and partner with our staff, volunteers, institutions and the rest of the population to
bring about help and assistance.

We uphold the dignity of our beneficiaries and give them due respect.


Kalusugan Caravan


The Kalusugan Caravan (Health Caravan) pools together volunteer doctors and health workers in health missions conducted nationwide. Benefitting the needy sectors, the caravan provides blood pressure monitoring, treatment of minor illnesses, pap smear for women, and dental check-up.

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Feed the Children Program

Filed under: Health & Social Services — Joshua Sarmiento @ 3:44 pm
Good nutrition contributes to the development of physical and mental potential. It also prevents acute and chronic illnesses. In developing countries such as the Philippines, however, nutritional deficiency is prevalent most significantly among children of poor families. Inadequate nutrition is a primary cause for many of the students in the country’s public schools not to fully realize their potentials.

The Villar SIPAG currently runs feeding programs in the following areas: Las Piñas; Muntinlupa; Tondo, Manila; Sasmuan, Pampanga; Iloilo; and Bataan.

Volunteers begin cooking early in the morning in order to have hundreds of bowls of hot chicken macaroni soup ready for the 9:00am recess. They resume cooking right about noon time for the 2:00pm feeding schedule. Bread and fruit juices are likewise served. The feeding schedule runs twice a week in three areas simultaneously, benefitting up to 1,200 children in each site.

Believing that it is always best to teach people how to fish and feed them for a lifetime, instead of simply giving them fish for the day, the foundation runs the feeding program to provide the immediate relief to the hunger problem of the children. Meanwhile livelihood programs are actively pursued across the country.
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Medical And Financial Assistance

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Medical and Dental Mission in Orani Bataan November 25, 2010

Medical Assistance


Dave Bancal		The foundation has extended financial assistance to cover surgical expenses for some seriously ill beneficiaries.

One of such beneficiaries is ten-year old Dave Bancal of Cavite. The second of three children of Danilo and Mary, Dave suffered from a congenital heart defect known as Tetralogy of Fallot, which can cause less blood flowing to the lungs, mixing of oxygen-rich (red) and oxygen-poor (blue) blood inside the heart, and low levels of oxygen in the blood. When oxygen levels are low, the baby’s skin, fingertips, or lips have a bluish tint. An infant with these symptoms is commonly called a “blue baby.”

Every infant or child with tetralogy of Fallot needs surgery, usually within the first year of life. But Dave’s family could not afford the cost of the needed surgery and Dave had to spend the first nine years of his life constantly feeling weak. His mobility was very limited, and his father had to carry him to and from school.

His condition was brought to the attention of the Villar SIPAG, which provided the finances required for the heart surgery that he badly needed. Dave underwent heart surgery at the Philippine Heart Center in April 2010 and has since been in good health.
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5TH VILLAR SIPAG POVERTY REDUCTION CHALLENGE

Filed under: Villar Social Institute for Poverty Alleviation & Governance (SIPAG) — Jomar Balasbas @ 3:43 pm

AWARDS MANAGEMENT

Empowering the poor and the underprivileged has been a key advocacy of the Villar SIPAG (Social Institute for Poverty Alleviation and Governance) since it was established in 1995 by its Founding Chairman and Former Senate President Manny Villar and Senator Cynthia Villar. The Villar SIPAG plays a key role in the foundation’s efforts to combat poverty among Filipinos.


The Villar SIPAG serves as home of all their efforts and endeavours in fulfilling their advocacies. It is more than a showcase of the Villar’s past, present, and future efforts to reduce poverty in the country. It is a working hub and a proactive center. Its name alone highlights and promotes the value of hard work as a tool in overcoming poverty. The Villar SIPAG will guide, train, teach, and empower womenfolk, the youth, jobless, and even relatives of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to uplift their lives as well as enhance their skills and know-how.


The Villar SIPAG Awards aim to identify the Most Outstanding Youth Social Enterprise organized by Filipino youth groups all over the country. Through this program, the Top 10 Most Outstanding Youth Social Enterprises shall receive ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND PESOS (P150,000.00) cash prize to further help their projects and initiatives in alleviating the poverty situation in their respective communities.

PROJECT OVERVIEW

The Villar SIPAG Awards – Youth Poverty Reduction Challenge is a friendly competition among the Filipino youth whose social enterprises can contribute in alleviating the poverty situation in their respective communities. The participating groups who submit/nominate the most thought-provoking and well-reasoned social enterprise will take the cash prize. Ten (10) Most Outstanding Youth Social Enterprises shall be selected as winners. Each entry shall go through evaluation, comprehensive screenings and rational project defense. Entries will be judged and selected by a panel of social entrepreneurs and socio-civic specialists.

HOW TO JOIN

  1. Fill out the downloaded application form and send to [email protected] with the subject “2022 Youth Challenge – [Name of the Social Enterprise]” together with the completed summary of the social enterprise and other supporting documents, (if any). Your summary must be concise – minimum of 3 and maximum of 5 pages.
  2. To be considered, entries must include the following information: Group Name with each participant’s full name, age, birth dates, email address and contact number. Each group must have at least 2-3 youth members, whose ages fall between 16-29 years old, as of date of entry submission. We require a copy of authenticated birth certificates.
  3. All entries must be duly received by Villar SIPAG Secretariat. All decisions made by the judges are final and not subject to appeal.
  4. All entries that will pass the initial screening process will go through a site validation/ evaluation. If ANY false or misleading information has been submitted, the participant shall be disqualified even without prior notification.
  5. Only one unique social enterprise model entry per participating group.
  6. Punctuation, grammar, clarity, and organization will be considered during the evaluation process, as well as the quality of the ideas, sustainability of the project and should identify positions to justify that poverty reduction measures were met for their respective communities.
  7. There will be 10 winning entries. Each shall receive ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND PESOS (P150,000.00) cash prize.
  8. All products and services must conform to environment -protection standards; it should also address waste management measures in any given social enterprise set-up.
  9. Deadline of submission is until June 15, 2022.

ENTRY CONCENTRATION

JUDGING CRITERIA AS BASIS FOR DETERMINING THE FINALISTS AND AWARDEES

Originality & Uniqueness
Your social enterprise creatively demonstrates how it will solve the problem of poverty in your communityYou describe a unique product or service that is well-thought out and one-of-a-kind		25%
ADAPTABILITY
Your social enterprise must have the ability to respond flexibility in any given community situation		25%
SUSTAINABILITY
Your social enterprise addresses a sustainable need and how that need will be fulfilled		25%
COMMUNITY UPLIFTMENT
Your social enterprise helps in uplifting the conditions of poor and urban communities/ disadvantaged communities		25%
TOTAL100%
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Relief Operation

Filed under: Health & Social Services — Joshua Sarmiento @ 3:43 pm

Since 1991, Villar SIPAG has played an active role in extending humanitarian services to disaster-stricken areas in the Philippines. When a calamity hits an area, the foundation conducts a quick assessment of the immediate needs of the affected populace. Ensuring the safety and providing immediate relief are the primary considerations for providing assistance.

The various types of help extended include rescue operations, setting up of soup kitchens, medical assistance, and the distribution of food, drinking water, and blankets.


The hand-woven blankets that are given to calamity victims are produced under the Las Piñas Handloom Blanket Weaving Social Enterprise.

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Religious Grants

Filed under: Church Building & Financial Assistance to Religious Organizations — Joshua Sarmiento @ 3:42 pm

Religious Grants Villar SIPAG extends grants to religious organizations across the country to support their various projects that promote the over-all wellbeing of their members. These grants are generally utilized for the construction, repair or renovation of places of worship; and other religious activities such as educational missions, ministers’ assemblies, and ordinations.

Some of the projects of the foundation are run in partnership with churches and religious organizations, like the feeding program and medical missions.

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Church Construction

Filed under: Church Building & Financial Assistance to Religious Organizations — Joshua Sarmiento @ 3:41 pm

“He is the one who gave these gifts to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church.” Ephesians 4:11-12



Vision
Villar SIPAG will trail-blaze providing structure and soul to outreach programs that benefit the members of religious organizations and institutions.

Mission

As part of its partnering efforts with churches and religious organizations, Villar SIPAG will be working with Vista Land in constructing places of worship in the latter’s home communities across the Philippines.

The following are among those that have been initially earmarked for early completion:

Santuario de San Ezekiel Moreno will rise in Pulanglupa, Las Piñas City, in honor of the Spanish Agustinian priest who served as parish priest of Las Piñas from 1876 to 1879. The 700-seater church will feature a column-free edifice with a grand adoration chapel.

Santuario Madonna del Divino Amore, inspired by its namesake in Italy, will be a 1,000-seater at Evia in Alabang.

Crosswinds in Tagaytay will be the home of a Swiss-inspired church that will rise at the community’s highest point, Deux Pointe.
There will be churches in other parts of Luzon, namely: Camella Provence in Malolos, Bulacan; Maia Alta in Antipolo, Rizal; Tierra Nevada in General Trias, Cavite; and Plantacion Meridienne in Lipa, Batangas.

Other European architecture-inspired churches will likewise rise in Vista Land communities in the Visayas particularly at the Azienda in Cebu and at Savannah in Iloilo; and at the Gran Europa in Cagayan de Oro in Mindanao.

The construction of places of worship goes hand-in-hand with the other projects of Villar SIPAG that support religious organizations.
Church Construction
Church Building AVP
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