April 15, 2024

Entrepreneurship & Livelihood

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

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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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