12/3/2011 9:36:18 PM - 002057513305
We need trade, not just aid. Aid is not sustainable. It can create dependency and just perpetuate poverty. It does not build dignity or create self-sufficiency. China has become the second largest economy in the world because of trade. Many impoverished countries in Africa have been receiving billions and billions of dollars every year for decades and have little or nothing to show for. Help us market our products. Connect us with entrepreneurs and investors. American companies invest in China because there is money to be made there, not because of charity. There is money to be made in the Philippines. We are rich in natural resources. Our people have migrated and given up. The best and brightest have left. New generations are leaving. Let us stop the brain drain and give them hope. Let us help them believe that they can bloom where they are born and grow where they are planted. We can grow from with in. Remittance money from abroad is not the solution. Especially if it breaks families and separate loved ones for months, if not years at a time.
Yes, we definitely need trade, not just aid. Email me at cariaga@yahoo.com
Thanks.
Sal Cariaga
5/20/2011 8:31:25 PM - 002057513305
Fight Poverty!
7/23/2010 2:23:42 PM - 002057502693
"With out market, there is no livelihood. Help us market our products. Email cariaga@yahoo.com or call 817 480 1287
Over a year ago, Estrella was grasping and barely surviving. Recently widowed, she had to work at the surgar cane hacienda's for a little over $1.00 a day. Though some of her kids have grown up, one teenage son and four grand kids live with her. They live mostly on rice and pieces of dried fish and beans.
Today, she now raises over 40 goats. Last year, she won our goat raiser of the year award and used most of her $100 prize to buy materials for her goat house which she and her teen age son built.
For two years, we have been supporting her son Ronel to school through Tree of Life. In June she plans to take over that responsibility. Next year when he goes to college, Estrella will make every effort to provide him with college education.
What a difference 16 months was in the life of this widow. She does not even own the land she lives on. She could have made countless of excuses, but she believed in our livelihood program and bought into the vision of self-sufficiency.
Estrella is now an inspiration to many. Today, many of her neighbors want to be a part of our program. (2009)
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