PWDE Program Key Players Meet-up
Sr. Agnetia and Leo of LFP meets Butch of VCF and Iris of Rabobank Netherlands for Persons with Disabilities Enterprise (PWDE) projects in the Philippines
Liliane Foundation Philippines (LFP) represented by the National Coordinator Sr. Agnetia Naval, SFIC and Job Developer Leo Bartolome, Visayas Cooperative Central Fund Federation (VCF) Manager Ma. Betta Socorro Salera, and the Rabobank Foundation – Programme Manager for Asia Iris Van der Velden meet-up last May 6, 2009 to discuss updates, issues and concerns about the Persons with Disabilities in Entrepreneurship (PWDE) program.
The said meeting was also an opportunity to talk about how to improve the project implementations, how it could cover and benefit more people and also devise tools, criteria and indicators that would measure the impact and success of the project to its intended beneficiaries.
The PWDE Program is a project that was designed to provide economic opportunities to PWDs and or their families through an equal access to micro-finance system. This sector will be given series of enterprise trainings and access to loan in order to operate and manage viable micro-enterprises.