Enabling small businesses: Ayala encourages entrepreneurs
We value the Filipinos' inherent entrepreneurial spirit. Ayala has been helping create vibrant communities by developing enterprising citizens through the provision of livelihood training and opportunities. Ayala shall further enhance this support by creating more synergy among the companies and providing wholesale loans to community institutions, capacity building programs, providing business advice and operations solutions to small entrepreneurs as well as forging partnerships with other development-oriented institutions.
The Bank of the Philippine Islands, with its valuable projects on microfinance and enterprise development, and Globe Telecom, with their highly successful BridgeCom sa Bayan and promotion of micro-entrepreneurs through G-cash and Autoload Max, have shown their expertise in the said field. It is a projected that taking the lead from BPI and Globe, plus the combination of the energies and resources of the Ayala companies, the group shall create a high impact program that can cater to the needs of the greater majority.
Focus: Microfinance Program
The Bank of the Philippine Islands is a financial institution with a vision of providing informal workers with access to formal financial markets by means of working with NGOs, cooperatives, foundations, and rural and thrift banks engaged in microfinance operations. Today, BPI has a dedicated Microfinance Unit, looking into ways and means of giving BPI a deeper involved in microenterprises. BPI commits its resources and its people to helping the local microentrepreneur. www.bpiexpressonline.com
Globe
Telecom Bridgecom sa Bayan
Success Stories
Globe Telecom believes that the
greatest contribution that it can
make to poverty alleviation is through
sustained corporate social responsiblity
programs. This is in line with its
effort to ensure that the economic,
social and environmental impacts
of these involvements are positive.
And that one of the better ways
to participate in national development
would be the effective use of its
core products and services to uplift
the lives of marginalized Filipinos.
Bank of
the Philippine Islands Banking with the
Poor
Rodolfo Bajar is a man with a humble
business plan: make rice scoops
and melon scrapers from stainless
steel. When he learned about a non-profit
organization offering loans no greater
than P10,000, he went to the facility's
De La Salle Micro branch and applied
for one. The benefit was immediate
and significant.
Globe Telecom The bridge to building better communities
It takes people working together for the good of many to make the world a better place to live.
Picture a soap-making seminar being conducted in Cebu . Members of several barangays from the southern part of the island are listening intently as a speaker ...
Bank of the Philippine Islands BPI helps microentrepreneurs
grow their businesses
Encouraging and supporting the Filipino entrepreneurial spirit is the most practical and effective way of helping our countrymen with limited resources. Making available the financial resources and training needed for managing home-based business enterprises can indeed generate employment ...
