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AWCF Exposure at CARD BDSFI PDF Print E-mail

 

Visit to CARD BDSFIAs part of enhancing AWCF’s enterprise development program, AWCF met with CARD BDSFI (CARD Business Development Service Foundation Inc.) last June 25, 2009 for an exchange of knowledge and experience in setting up business development service/center benefiting women. The meeting enabled AWCF to learn and appreciate how CARD MRI (Center for Agriculture and Rural Development Mutually Reinforcing Institutions) evolved from being a microfinance institution (MFI) to a network of institutions empowering rural women while being assured of its sustainability. The meeting also paved the way for AWCF to share its experience on micro enterprise development in Asia involving co-ops and credit unions.

 

AWCF was represented in this meeting by the AWCF Secretariat headed by Ms Salome Ganibe, Executive Director while CARD BDSFI was represented by its CEO, Mr. Aristeo Dequito and its Operations Manager for CARD Business Development Services, Mr. Julius Adrian Alip.

CARD BDSFI is the fifth institution under the CARD MRI group, a microfinance institution (MFI) known as the largest microfinance bank in the Philippines with the biggest number of clients. CARD BDSFI provides customized business service to at least 800,000 CARD clients from Laguna, Quezon province, Masbate, Oriental Mindoro and Marinduque.