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Grameen Rice-Finance
(2002) by SEKAP, Inc.

Reforestation
(1998-2002) by FCI

Sustainable Agriculture
(1998-2002) by SWCF

Rice Farmers Cooperative / Carabao Dispersal
(1998-2002) by SJP

Credit Cooperative
(2000-2002) by DLRLCDFI

Women's Handicrafts (2002) / Rice Cooperative
(1996-2001) by PBSP

Vegetable Farmers Cooperatives
(1998-2002) by AKAP

Women's Wastepickers Enterprise (2001) by JVOFI

Entrepreneurs Cooperative
(1998-2002) by MRMF-TRESP

Rice Farmers Association
(2001) by FAPBAPI

Credit Cooperative
(2002) by PMPCI

Doña Luisa R. Lorenzo Community Development Foundation Inc. (DLRLCDFI)

Description of the DLRLCDFI project:

The Health and Alternative Livelihood (HEAL) Program aims to improve the quality of life of low income households within and around the Lapanday Foods Corporation-PAS plantations in Region XI, particularly in 36 barangays in the provinces of Davao, Davao del Sur, Compostela Valley, South Cotabato and Davao City. The project, organized between 1998 and 2000, is composed of 295 groups (of around 5 persons each) who can have access to financial assistance in the form of a loan for seed capital to finance viable community-based Income Generating Projects (IGPs). This will enable them to augment family income.

The project also aim at improving the health condition of the beneficiaries by implementing health related projects (e.g. establishment of water systems for potable water supply, sanitary latrines, herbal gardens and other health related needs which the beneficiaries identifies themselves in coordination with the BHW and other line agencies. The capability building of the beneficiaries grows as the small groups now gather by areas to become a formal organization which will provide the necessary services to its members. (implementation in 2001-2002).

Testimony of Flordeliza Gebone

Mrs. Flordeliza Gebone, married and a bonafide resident of Don Sergio Osmena Padada, Davao del Sur, started her active participation in the HEAL PROGRAM in the late quarter of 1998. She attended various activities on Health Component of HEAL Project such as pre-clinic, mother class, deworming, feeding, operation "timbang", water system installation and canal digging. She and her family benefited from the said project. Since then, she had been actively involved in her small group known as "Happy Group". They were only 5 H.H. who agreed to loan purposely to venture business on Nipa Shingles making.

After having completed the necessary training and other requirements, the loan was released toward the end of December 2000. With that seed capital her group engaged in nipa shingles production. She estimated that her income increased 100% compared to previous years. She estimates that she could dispose an average of 500 pieces of nipa roof (pawed) per week at P120.00 per 100 pieces.

Income from her Income Generating Project (IGP) has complemented her husband's earnings from seasonal carpentry and has augmented the family income. She is being helped by her husband and daughters in this nipa-making project. Aside from assuring income for her family, this project also provided employment to her neighbors, especially when the demand for nipa shingles was at its peak. This nipa-making project increased the family income of the group members as well.