Featuring Tambulilid's Coordinator

Here is Diosita Aquino, coordinator of the Tambulilid Community Livelihood Center, TCFOC. She is 55 years old, a mother of 7 children and a grandmother of 8.

A resourceful, amiable, smiling and skilled grandma, she is able to provide jobs to 15 of the members of the Tambulilid CLC. Thinking that this is not enough, she wants to train more women to learn how to sew.

She is not deterred of Jean's bitchiness, lol.

Look at her smiling self with her youngest daughter and one of her grandchildren.

More Tambulilid Photos

Tambulilid Community Livelihood Center

Tambulilid CLC has a new Center!

For contributing only P5.00 a day, residents of the PhilRads Relocation site is able to build a livelihood center where they place 5 of their 15 sewing machines, a borrowed overlocker because they were not able to avail of TCFOC's 15 overlockers, a mirror and a telephone! The photos will tell you what kind of dresses they are able to produce.

International Women's Day Participation

Forced Savings Mobilization

In forcing them to save for their own families, the women found out that most of them do not have the necessary papers to be able to get hold of a simple Identification Card. Banks ask for IDs before one can open an account. It was a good thing because now they're able to get complete papers and identification cards.

So, some of the women have already opened bank accounts.

2nd CLC Coordinators' Meeting

The classroom at the Eastern Visayas State University Ormoc City Campus where we met on our 2nd CLC Coordinators' Meeting
March 1, 2008 at 2:00 P.M.

The CLC coordinators present reported on the status of their livelihood activities.

Here's a list of all our Community Livelihood Centers:

1. Alta Vista

2. Balion

3. Cabintan

4. Bantigue

5. Cabulihan

6. Cogon

7. Don Felipe Larrazabal

8. Linao

9. Macabug

10. San Jose

11. Sumangga

12. Tambulilid

13. Valencia

14. Public Market

15. Methodist

16. Punta

17. Concepcion

18. San Pablo

No photos: 19. Naungan

TCFOC-COW Fabric Depot

Fabric withdrawal has been set every Tuesday and Thursday in the afternoon. The COW Coordinator is in-charge of the releasing of the fabric. Here are some photos taken last Tuesday, January 29, 2008.

TEXTILE, CLOTHING, FOOTWEAR ORMOC CITY – COALITION OF ORMOC WOMEN

We are a group of small homegrown NGOs from Ormoc City, Philippines. With our partner - TCF Western Australia, we are implementing a Community Sewing Livelihood Project, sewing machines and materials of which come from TCF Western Australia. The machines and sewing materials are distributed in 19 Community Livelihood Centers in 17 barangays (villages) in Ormoc.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM

The Ormoc City Community Sewing Livelihood Project is managed by a team of NGO officials from 5 different NGOs based in Ormoc City. The team calls themselves the Project Management Team. It is composed of Dr. Gregorio Yrastorza, Sr of the Ormoc City Eductional Foundation, Jean Justimbaste of Pagtinabangay Foundation, Marlyn Valenciano of ECLIPSE, Xerxes Solon of the Leyte Youth Action Network and Nieves Coca of the Ormoc Vendors Multi-purpose Cooperative.

The team is headed by Dr. Yrastorza as its General Manager.