"Have a clear ‘social mission’. Bring in most or all of its income; check if it will make a difference, improve the communities, changing lives of people or the environment. As Bill Dayton of Ashoka Founder said, “Social entrepreneurs are not contented to just to give a fish, or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry”. Making money is no fun. Contributing and changing the world is more fun.” Topic: Social Entreprise. Speaker - ANGEL DE LEON, JR – Chairman, Board of Trustees Taytay Sa Kauswagan, Inc./DISCON 2017, March 10, 2017 @ Grand Xing Imperial, Iloilo City
UMWAD JOURNEY.....
“The UMWAD journey. It is a project out of GG scholarship (2014). Umwad – progress – a 5 year inter-agency development program aimed at reducing extreme poverty in Brgy Baybay Norte, a coastal village in Miagao, lloilo City, Philippines. Umwad Timeline from 2014 – 2017. We go to the community finding the problem and the issues with them, and not telling them what the problems are. We did data assessment and analysis, collection and work on the plan. Umwad was realized because of the support of Rotary and can only be sustained with the support of Rotary. Umwad is Rotary project. It is your project. (Rotary International, University of Arizona, LGU and the community – the four leg pillars to make this project happened). Understand it. Own it. Campaign it. It is a concept of a community. We had synergy. We help more than 100 families gain alternative source of income, improve quality of living for the poorest, send 10 college students to university, assist 50 K-12 kids in the primary education and work on another Global Grant scholar who will help sustain the project. We want to improve the quality of their living in the next 5 years. Let us sustain this investment.” – Speaker - MONA LISA P. TEVES - UMWAD BABAY NORTE 2022 (Rotary International Global Grant Scholar $45,000), Masters in Development Practice, Graduated December 2016, University of Atlanta, Tucson, Atlanta, USA (Rotary Club of Miag-ao)/DISCON 2017, March 10, 2017 @ Grand Xing Imperial Hotel, Iloilo City.
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