Who We Are
PHILIPPINE CON
SORTIUM ON MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT (PHILCOMDEV)
is a network of twenty-seven (27) non - government and people's organizations, microfinance institutions, cooperatives, community based organizations, networks, and individuals who are involved in, and agree to converge their initiatives around the issue of migration, human rights and development - particularly the empowerment of migrants, overseas Filipinos, their families and communities as social development actors, addressing the social costs of migration, optimizing the benefits of migration, and contributing to people-oriented Philippine development.
Its formation was initiated by three leading networks, the Migrant Forum in Asia - Philippines (MFA-PHILS), the International Network of Alternative Financial Institutions - Philippines (INAFI-PHILS) and the Philippine Social
Enterprises Network (PHILSEN). The organizing conference was held in January 4, 2007 and the First General Assembly in June 18, 2007. READ MORE
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Urnong Mo Tulong Mo (UMTM) is a microfinance project being operated and managed by officers of Bannuar ti La Union-Naguiilian Chapter. It was founded in September 4, 2004 with the help of Kanlungan Center Foundation’s Local Economy Development Project. It is a unique microfinance project in that it is being operated and managed by migrant workers and their families, and is being supported by OFWs from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. The project had its seventh General Assembly last January 23, 2010 at the Marian Center in Barangay Angin, Naguillian, La Union. Now on its 8th year, it started with a share capital of Php13,500 in 2004, raised from contributions of members. It went through a slow but sure process of growing and by 2009 had a total capital of Php998,368.39, only a few hundreds shy of its 1 million target. Don Baga, Kanlungan coordinator for the Local Economy Development Project is calling on members of Bannuar and other interested investors to put their money into the project. UMTM has opened its membership to include non-Bannuar members. Collateralized loans have also been recently made available but these will strictly be for business only. |