By Negros Girls for Tomorrow Basis
Virginia Borde is an easy lady whose struggles to carry herself and her household out of poverty by means of entrepreneurial acumen.
Her story of success begins from tragedy: deserted by her husband whereas she was pregnant with their 4th baby, Virgie went residence to her dad and mom’ hometown in Sagay, Negros Occidental on a borrowed aircraft ticket. Bearing the only accountability of elevating her kids, Virgie tried all she may to make cash, even beginning a laminating enterprise that finally failed. She went again to the previous standby of promoting fish till the day she heard concerning the group lending program at Negros Girls for Tomorrow Basis, Inc. (NWTF). Virgie visited the department and knew this was the chance she had been searching for.
Her first mortgage was geared toward increasing her enterprise, however clashes with one other vendor compelled her to shut her enterprise. However NWTF assured her that they might proceed to assist her, so Virgie went into the enterprise of offering the rice farmers inside her space the companies of rice land preparation and harvesting by way of agricultural machineries – hand tractors and threshers. She had an inkling a couple of rice enterprise because the starting, and this was the primary time she may do one thing about it. Three years of a bountiful harvest later, Virgie has change into a profitable enterprise lady, successful Citigroup’s Microentrepreneur of the 12 months Nationwide Award in 2005. When requested what she feels her scenario would have been like with out NWTF, Virgie answered “my kids wouldn’t have completed education and I might have a depressing existence merchandising vegetable and fish.”
