This blog is all about a community livelihood project by 5 NGOs in Ormoc City with TCF Western Australia as partner.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Coordinators' & Volunteer Monitors' Joint Meeting
We hold a regular monthly meeting of center coordinators. This time, we have our newly hired youth volunteer monitors to the meeting. Above, the Concepcion CLC coordinator reported on the activities of her center.
This is a good venue for exchanging experiences, ideas and showing off their products to other centers. Shown above is the coordinator of Don Felipe Larrazabal Community Development Center showing off her bag.
Below is the coordinator of Sumangga CLC reporting and then showing off the products that her group has been making.
Other coordinators seem to like Sumangga CLC's products.... hmmm.
It was time for the youth volunteers to render their reports. Two were absent and although the bookkeeper was present, she was not obliged to render her financial report as yet.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Carol's "I shall return!" to Ormoc City, Philippines
The pessimist in us, was overshadowed by the optimist in her. She is a woman who never quits and her optimism is infectious. She talked to some people and learned of on-going trainings on sewing. Armed with this information, she, Mel and Rhay embarked on a campaign for donations of second-hand sewing machines in
On November, last year Textile, Clothing, Footwear Western Australia shipped a 40-foot container van full of 165 sewing machines, boxes and boxes of fabric and other materials, rolls and rolls of off-cut quality fabric and a lot, lot more.
The donations arrived Cebu from Perth, Western Australia through the courtesy of Aboitiz Group Foundation. AGF paid for the transportation costs from Australia to Ormoc City.
Back in Ormoc we distributed these to 21 (now and still counting) community livelihood centers in 19 of Ormoc's 110 barangays (villages).
Now Carol and Mel are coming back to Ormoc. They will be joined by modelling and confidence building trainer Adam Barralet. This is so because there are community livelihood centers whose members are good garments makers already. And what a good way to sell their garments other than a fashion parade/show.
Adam will provide the crash training course to 200 young, and not-so-young Ormocanons in the hope of showing off the center's fashion creations.
Adam Barralet
Company National Principal
Head Choreographer
However, we do not want to be selfish about not sharing Adam with other garments makers in Ormoc. We are providing slots to all boutiques in Ormoc to participate in Adam's training.
As a matter of fact, TCFOC hopes to put
Thank you to Dr. Jaap Poll of Otto Energy and NorAsian Energy for sponsoring Adam's trip to
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Carol Hanlon will be back to Ormoc City, Philippines
I think that was summer, 2007 when Carol Hanlon, Mel Rom and Rhay Rom came for a visit to Ormoc City. Through Dr. Jun Yrastorza, she met with some NGO representatives and inquired of products unique to Ormoc. Unfortunately, they found none. Actually, we could not present one except food products (lol). None that they could probably purchase in bulk and sell in their shops in
The pessimist in us, was overshadowed by the optimist in her. She is a woman who never quits and her optimism is infectious. She talked to some people and learned of on-going trainings on sewing. Armed with this information, she, Mel and Rhay embarked on a campaign for donations of second-hand sewing machines in
On November, last year Textile, Clothing, Footwear Western Australia shipped a 40-foot container van full of 165 sewing machines, boxes and boxes of fabric and other materials, rolls and rolls of off-cut quality fabric and a lot, lot more.
Back in Ormoc we distributed these to 21 (now and still counting) community livelihood centers in 19 of Ormoc's 110 barangays (villages).
Now Carol and Mel are coming back to Ormoc. They will be joined by modelling and confidence building trainer Adam Barralet. This is so because there are community livelihood centers whose members are good garments makers already. And what a good way to sell their garments other than a fashion parade/show.
Adam will provide the crash training course to 200 young, and not-so-young Ormocanons in the hope of showing off the center's fashion creations.
However, we do not want to be selfish about not sharing Adam with other garments makers in Ormoc. We are providing slots to all boutiques in Ormoc to participate in Adam's training.
As a matter of fact, TCFOC hopes to put
Thank you to Dr. Jaap Poll of Otto Energy and NorAsian Energy for sponsoring Adam's trip to
(See photos at tcfoc.blogspot.com)
OTTO ENERGY DONATES AGAIN!
Through Dr. Jaap Poll, Otto Energy is once again providing money to Carol Hanlon and company's TCFOC project in Ormoc City, Philippines. Otto Energy will support the airfare of Mr. Adam Barralet, Modelling & Confidence Building trainer, to come to Ormoc City to train aspiring models.
Textile, Clothing, Footwear Western Australia does this to help Textile, Clothing, Footwear Ormoc City get off as fashion leaders (!) in Ormoc City.
AGYLA CLC
AGYLA means Active, Genuine Youth Leaders Association.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
TCFOC youth volunteers
Fred wants to enroll in Hotel & Restaurant Technology at
the Eastern Visayas State University. This classroom is
the main classroom of the program under Mr. Basas who
is seen here working at the back of the room. Fred is 17.
Leyte State University in Baybay, Leyte, to Hotel &
Restaurant Technology at the Eastern Visayas State
University in Ormoc City is seen here introducing
himself. Eling was at the PFI-LEYAN Summer Youth
Camp 2008.
Ormoc City National High School in Ormoc City. She is 17. She is
transferring from Ipil National H.S. She is a member of
the 90-strong youth group OSOC (Ormoc Samuka Oi Clan).
Management. She is 19 and the daughter of the COW
Coordinator.
actually is Michael Francis.
He will be back to school from
a long hybernation and be
enrolling in 2nd year high
school at the Ormoc City National
High School - the school that
does not want him back. Let's
see if the COW coordinator can
use her "heart" power to
secure his enrollment. Dodong
was the loudest at the PFI-LEYAN
Summer Youth Camp 2008.
Greg was a sugarcane plantation child laborer. He was
"rescued" by ECLIPSE from labor to classroom. He
will be enrolling in Hotel & Restaurant Technology under
Mr. Basas. He is 19 years old.