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Demetria is from Philippines. She needs a loan of $200 to buy fertilizer and duck feed.
Demetria is from Philippines. She needs a loan of $200 to buy fertilizer and duck feed.
Demetria Cabasal lives in a town of Brookes Point, Palawan with her family. Rice farming is their main source of income. Demetria also raises ducks to supplement her income.
With a loan from World Vision, Demetria will buy fertilizer for her farm and feed for her ducks. This will ensure that both of her businesses will be successful. With her increased income, she will make sure that her children have a healthy diet and that they can attend school. Demetria hires and pays laborers on her farm, so the expansion of her farm will created more jobs within her community.
The Agriculture business sector covers all farming and livestock activities. Some entrepreneurs request loans to help in securing supplies and equipment. Others want to buy more animals to breed or purchase feed and medicines. The majority of our loan clients live in rural communities where agriculture is already understood as a business model. It is for this reason that approximately 50% of our loans are in the agricultural sector.
World Vision began working with the people of the Philippines in Manila in 1954. Childcare projects began shortly thereafter to help fund orphanages and daycare centers, health-care programs, educational assistance, hygiene, and spiritual enrichment projects. The Good Shepherd’s Fold Orphanage Project provided a gas stove, 600 reference books, musical instruments, vegetable seeds, and 3,000 textbooks to children on the island of Guimaras.
From 1960 to 1969, sponsorship continued to grow with the addition of the Mercyville orphanage in the village of Polonulig on the island of Mindanao. In addition, the Philippines Medical Boat Mission Project ministered to suffering people in remote, sea-locked villages. Medical and
evangelical teams provided health care through two- and three-day clinics in churches and homes.
World Vision opened the Manila office in 1972. Staff sought to improve communities and continued sharing the message of the Gospel. By the end of the decade World Vision sponsored 29,750 children. Community development projects provided a comprehensive approach to integrate
development among the small islands, which typically have few resources and are inaccessible during rough seas. Projects there sought to promote fishing, health care, sanitation, and education. The Ilin Island Fishing Project benefited 600 people by promoting self-sufficiency through agricultural production, increased fishing harvests, and improved water supplies.
Demitria used her loan to buy fertilizer and feed for her ducks. It was a relief for her and her family when they received the loan, and it was indeed a great help for her business. Demetria continue to hope for a better return on all her hard work in the coming days.
She is repaying her loan on time. Thank you for supporting Demitria and World Vision Micro!
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Thank you for supporting the small business loan for Demetria Cabasal to improve her farming and food business. She invested her loan of $200 to buy fertilizer and duck feed.
Demetria has now repaid her loan in full. In addition to repaying her loan, Demetria has used her additional income to purchase food for the family and expand the current business. Demetria's 4 children continue to study in school.
The loan Demetria received helped her business expand and the profits she is now earning create lasting improvements in her life. In the future Demetria hopes to send children to school and expand the current business.
Thank you for your support of Demetria and World Vision Micro. These funds are now being recycled to support another eager entrepreneur in the same community.
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