The country Cora Sayre calls home is one of the most vulnerable to climate change in the world. She has seen the increasing intensity of typhoons over the last decade—and made it her life’s mission to help rural farming communities in the Philippines become more resilient to devastating disasters and volatile economic conditions. Cora and her husband…
Our Toyota Environment Fund supported project in Leyte is gaining momentum. This project aims to; To conduct a quick survey of 600 existing coconut farms around Palo Municipality, Northeast Leyte, and identity 300 farmers who have strong interests in agroforestry conversion and reforestation. Afterwards, we will conduct a detailed socioeconomic survey of 300 participant farmers…
We experienced active women in the rural villages who want to improve their standards of living via the implementation of small-scale livelihood enterprises. We are keen in supporting them and then rolling-over their repayments to other needy beneficiaries in a passing-on-the-gift scheme. These are short-term, well monitored and managed project in order to ensure that…
Happy to announce that the Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW) in the United Kingdom has approved our project “Mindanao Pilot Sustainable Sanitation and Food Security Project” with the project areas in 2 municipalities in Misamis Oriental. The project seeks to improve access to water and sanitation and improve health and nutrition via vegetable…
This time of year, December is one of the busiest that we have mainly due to the Holiday Season as well as with the difficult situation in our project areas because of the Coronavirus pandemic. Despite this, we continue to deliver much-needed services to our communities, thanks a lot to our supporters from the Philippines…
One of our initiatives is to assist small-scale coconut farming families. Below is an update; Warmest greetings and thank you very much for your generous support to our initiative helping women coconut farmers. This project assumes great significance especially this time when the Coronavirus pandemic is still spreading, wrecking havoc to health and wellness of…