THE overseas
fund drive to help raise more money for the vendors’ livelihood projects in
Mambulao is expected to turn over an initial sum of P40,000 to the local
government.
The fund is
soon to be turned formally over to Mayor Ricarte Padilla during a regular
session of the Sangguniang Bayan.
Former SB
member Caloy Taboada has agreed to hand over the check to the mayor.
The money
was donated by Mambulaoans who are based in the US, Canada and Middle East.
More
overseas “kababayan” including those in the Middle East have sent feelers they
would like to chip in US$50 each.
They said
they would like to help sustain the loan funding for qualified beneficiaries of
the “Sulong Pangkabuhayan sa Kariton” launched recently by the Mambulao local
government.
The fund
drive was an initiative of online news and feature MWBuzz spearheaded by Percy
A Ostonal, MWBuzz marketing director based in Michigan; Alfredo P Hernandez,
MWBuzz editor-in-chief, of Port Moresby Papua New Guinea; Fil-Am Mary Fe
Barcoma-Dearth of Ohio and Arlene Grace Suzara of California.
Under the
“kariton” scheme, a qualified poor household is entitled to a P2,000 soft loan
for livelihood activity such as selling foodstuff.
He is also
to get a fully-outfitted push-cart through which he will sell his goods. A unit
costs at least P9,000 to build.
The first 10
households who recently received the soft loan assistance had undergone a
seminar on simple bookkeeping, records keeping and proper food handling.
They were
also urged to present proposals for potential line of business, which could be
refined and adopted as part of the livelihood program.
The
beneficiary would decide whether to make loan repayment monthly or bi-weekly.
Based on
initial daily sales monitoring, the subject vendor was netting P500 a day from
his sales.
It is hoped
that more and more poor families would be given the chance to operate their own
income-generating projects.
Repaid loan
capital will be rolled over to new beneficiaries.
Ostonal said
the initial donation would benefit at least 20 new households who would have a
chance to start their livelihood activities.
He praised one donor, Manuel Paa, formerly of Parang, for sending money more than what was asked of him.
"How generous Manny is ... iyan po ang isa sa mga pagpapakita ng tunay na pagmamahal at pagtanaw ng utang na loob sa bayang kinasgisnan .... he's giving back to the community just like the rest of our kababayan overseas who are receiving a windfall of blessings from the Lord."
He praised one donor, Manuel Paa, formerly of Parang, for sending money more than what was asked of him.
"How generous Manny is ... iyan po ang isa sa mga pagpapakita ng tunay na pagmamahal at pagtanaw ng utang na loob sa bayang kinasgisnan .... he's giving back to the community just like the rest of our kababayan overseas who are receiving a windfall of blessings from the Lord."
Ostonal has been
in touched with a number of US and Canada-based Mambulaoans to coordinate their
forthcoming donations.
List of
donors for the first batch of funds:
1) Mr and
Mrs Manny Paa (former residents of
Baranggay Parang, Mambulao/ OFW Kingdom of Saudi Arabia )
2) Mr and
Mrs Poloy/ Elsie Dimaunahan (Mambulao,/ OFW Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
3) Mrs
Rosenda “T'yang Rosing” Evangelista- Romualdo
and family (Mambulao, New Jersey
,USA )
4) Mrs
Germilina "Nana Mena" Abasula- Ostonal Sra and family (Mambulao, Toronto, Canada, USA )
5) Mr and
Mrs Carlos "Caloy" Taboada and family (Nee: Priscilla "Precy"
Abasula Ostonal) (Mambulao, Toronto, Canada)
6) Mr Jaime
" JR " San Andres JR (
Mambulao, New Jersey, USA )
7) Mr and
Mrs, Ernesto "Ernie" Pena and Family (Baranggay Osmena, Mambulao /
Pennsylvania, USA)
8) Mr and
Mrs Thomas "Tom" L Torres and
family (Nee: Socorro "Corrine/ Coring "Macaro-Aler) (Mambulao, Los
Angeles, California, USA)
9) Ms Mary
Fe Barcoma- Dearth and family (Mambulao, Ohio, US )
10) Ms
Rosalie "Neneng" A Ostonal- Reyes and family (Mambulao, Connecticut,
USA)
11) Ms
Arlene Grace suzara and family (Mambulao, Northern California, USA)
12) Mr and
Mrs Priscillano "Pong" A Ostonal and family (Mambulao, Toronto,
Canada)
13) Mr and
Mrs, Edgar "Egay" Macaro-Aler
and family (Mambulao, Northridge, California, USA)
14) Mr and
Mrs Tristan U Barcelon and family (Nee: Larah Faye A Ostonal) (Novi, Michigan,
USA )
15) Ms
Evangeline Barcoma-Demasayao and family
(Mambulao, Saskatchewan, Canada )
16) Mr
Alfredo “Fred/ Freddie” P Hernandez and family (Baranggay Parang, Mambulao,
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea) Mambulaoans Worldwide Buzz Online News
editor-In-Chief, founder and administrator)
17) Mr and
Mrs Percival "Percy" A Ostonal and family (Mambulao, Michigan, USA)
- Mambulaoans Worldwide Buzz Online News co-founder, advertising and marketing
director)
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