From Adversity to Abundance: A Tale of Rag Maker Life’s experiences are like various scraps of fabric: there are lovely exotic pieces, typical, uncommon, and bits we don’t like but all are part of a story and should not be discarded on the trash heap. When these scraps of fabric remnants are sewn together, they […]
Last September 19-22, 2022, MicroSave Consultants, Rajarshi and Abishek visited the LifeBank Foundation Central Office and Ikabuhi Complex and conducted a Rapid Institutional Assessment (RIA). MicroSave is a boutique consulting firm that focuses on helping institutions that work in the field of development finance. Most of their clients are MFIs and banks that are focused […]
A Parenting Education and Early Childhood Development Training-Workshop under the Building Resilient Communities (BRC) Project “It is not easy to be a parent, but we should know and understand what and how they feel as our children. We can’t always be right just because we are the parent. It is also important that we should […]
December is the most awaited month of the year. It’s Christmas time and employees are all excited to celebrate it every year. An office’s annual Christmas party is a perfect way to thank and appreciate the employees for their work during the year. It is also one way to give everybody a break from the […]
“As a supervisor now, it is my major responsibility to ensure that no learner is left behind, ”says Alma S. Janagap, EdD, Public Schools District Supervisor Schools, District of Maasin I. She has been an English teacher for more than three decades and has witnessed the misery of struggling readers who likewise suffer […]
The LifeBank Foundation Education Scholarship Program aims to support quality and holistic education for children of LifeBank members. This program is one way of helping the LifeBank members send their children to college by providing and assisting financial support for their education. A total of 205 LifeBank Scholars graduated this year, and 32 of them […]
Education Scholarship Program (ESP) Introduction LifeBank Foundation Inc. Education Scholarship Program (ESP) aims to provide livelihood skills (bachelor or vocational degree) to deserving dependents of Ikabuhi Microfinance Program (IMP) clients; the program financially supports IMP members for their children’s education. This program can help qualified scholars to acquire good academic preparation, self-development, and broad career […]
The Covid-19 Pandemic had a great impact on the organization and its employees. Building and sustaining a strong work culture is one of the challenges of LifeBank Foundation in creating a positive employee experience. Positive workplace relationships are essential in creating a great company culture that fuels employees’ well-being, teamwork, and employee engagement by having […]
The Action for the Care and Development of the Poor in the Philippines (ACAP Foundation) has been the Lifebank Foundation’s partner in pursuing the mission of eradicating poverty. Through education, arts, and skills development of children, the ACAP Foundation believes that it is possible to end poverty if this task is done in a holistic […]
“I wanted to try organic gardening because the price of synthetic fertilizer keeps going up while the price of our products is very uncertain”, said Aguilan slowly when asked why he is interested with organic farming. Aguilan and wife Gablay have been living on gardening and occasional por dia construction work. They have three young […]
LifeBank Microfinance Foundation, Inc. is a non-stock and non-profit organization engaged in micro-financing initiatives that advance comprehensive and sustainable development in rural and urban areas through integrated social services. We are a major catalyst in breaking the chains of poverty in the Philippines.
