Help Build a Livelihood & Development Center for Women

Help build a development center.  Help empower women.  Help change lives.  

Help VIDES Philippines build a livelihood and development center for underprivileged women in Cavite, Philippines.  The two-storey facility seeks to provide an avenue for women empowerment, especially in the field of economic independence and sustainability.  

The center, which will be built on a 107 square meter lot area, will house a bakery, a sewing room, and a small office which will cater to microcredit and other livelihood projects.    

The target beneficiaries of this livelihood and development center are the relocated informal settlers from Barangay 143 in Pasay City to Trece Martires in Cavite.   The more than 1,500 households are bereft with viable sources of income due to the remoteness  of the relocation site and the unavailability of job opportunities in the community.

How Can You Help?

·  You can help by donating funds.

·  All donors will be issued official receipts and acknowledgement letters via electronic mail.   Names of all donors will be listed at the VIDES Philippines Facebook Page.

·  Donors who will donate US$100 and above will receive a postcard. 

·  Donors who will donate US$500 and above will  and above will receive a postcard and a news magazine.

·  Donors who will donate US$1,000 and above will  receive a postcard, a news magazine, and a certificate of appreciation.

·  Naming rights are also offered for donors who will donate an amount of US$3,000 and above. (Please send us an email at videspinoy@gmail.com for more information.)  

Where Your Donations Will Go:

All donations will go to the construction of the proposed two-storey VIDES Philippines Livelihood and Development Center for Women in Bella Vista, Barangay Santiago, General Trias, Cavite.  

Your contributions will enable us to help underprivileged women help themselves and their families by providing a venue where they can receive training on sewing, baking, marketing, and entrepreneurship. 

Regular updates will be posted to this page and at the VIDES Philippines Facebook Page.

About VIDES Philippines

VIDES Philippines Volunteers Foundation, Inc., the fund campaigner, is a duly registered non-government organization with the Securities and Exchange Commission since 2001.  It is also licensed to operate by the Philippine Department of Social Welfare and Development since 2008.

VIDES stands for Volunteers International  for Development,  Education,  and Solidarity, thus, its programs include the following:

1.  Volunteerism – promoting volunteerism among the youth, especially college students and young professionals in search of life’s meaning and purpose

2.    International – we accommodate international volunteers to do volunteer work with us and we also send our local volunteers abroad to do volunteer work

3.  Development – our projects include rural livelihood projects such as hog raising and goat raising; our urban livelihood projects consist of the microcredit project and the sewing machine project for mothers.

4.    Education – we have scholarship grants in support of food and transportation allowance of children, we also sponsor tuition fees for selected college students, we offer the Alternative Learning System to out-of-school youth and children in coordination with Don Bosco School – Manila, and we also conduct the mobile education project in 6 areas in the cities of Pasay, Manila, and Quezon City where we hold tutorials in academics, sports, music, and arts.

5.    Solidarity – our volunteers assist in times of calamities and natural disasters in whatever small way we can.

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