Victoria Bantillan
Now fifty-four years old, Victoria looks back and recounts her journey through poverty. Daughter of a sugar cane plantation worker and [...]
Rosita Pabalan
Capital, hard work, compliance with business regulations, compassion for employees, strong customer relationships, and product quality–these are the reasons for her [...]
Milagros Galvez
Milagros, her husband Loreto, and their three children are a tight-knit family that together manage and operate their businesses which include [...]
Julie Villanueva
Julie and Nonito Villanueva are a perfect example of thinking out of the box. The couple saw the opportunity in recycling [...]
Mary Jane Lagunay
Mary Jane shared a shanty with her husband’s siblings in a fishing village. Living conditions were poor and unhealthy, especially for [...]
Myrna Millarez
Myrna and her husband, Guillermo, met while she was in high school and married after graduation. They lived in a bamboo [...]
Daria Ango
Daria Ango was content living her life as a housewife to her husband, Agapito. She would spend her days on watching [...]
Jesusa Altamera
Like countless others in her community, Jesusa Altamera was no stranger to poverty. It was a constant struggle to provide for [...]
Zosima Ybañez
Zosima first started buying and selling firewood that she would peddle to bakeries across her town. Parents of 10 children, she [...]