Category: Financial Literacy
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SEDPI, CCC Start Eco-Town Project in Palawan
San Vicente is a municipality in Palawan noted for its long beach front and dense forest covers. While it is classified as a first-class municipality, it remains vulnerable, environmentally and economically, to the devastating effects of climate change. The Climate Change Commission (CCC), through the National Climate Change Action Plan (NCAP), aims to build the…
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SEDPI Taps Microfinace Institution for Palawan Eco-Town Project
SEDPI, as partner in Climate Change Commission’s (CCC) eco-town project, facilitated a meeting between the Local Government of San Vicente, Palawan and the Dungganon Bank, on January 17, 2013. This meeting aimed to explore the possibility of making Dungganon the financial service provider for the eco-town project. The CCC project hopes to create economically stable…
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SEDPI President and CEO Appears in ANC’s “On the Money”
Tough love. This was the message of SEDPI’s President and CEO during his TV guesting at the ABS-CBN News Channel. “On the Money” is ANC’s latest show on personal finance. Mr. Rapisura talked about the financial literacy program of SEDPI in partnership with the Ateneo de Manila University and Overseas Filipinos’ Society for the Promotion…
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SEDPI Showcases Financial Literacy Program in Rome
The Global Filipino Diaspora Council (GFDC) in collaboration with the Filipino-Italian Members of the Global Filipino Diaspora Council (GFDC), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Scalibrini Institute of Migration Onlus (SIMIONLUS), the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) and the Philippine Embassy in Rome, as co-convenor, hosted the Diaspora-to-Dialogue (D2D): 1st Conference of Filipinos in…
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SEDPI Speaks on First BanKO Financial Education Roadshow
“Sa produkto ng BPI-Globe BanKO, pinapadali ang mag-save, kumuha ng insurance at soon maka-loan para sa negosyo”. These were words imparted by Vincent Rapisura to over 200 BanKO current and potential clients in its first Financial Education Roadshow, held in Barangay Holy Spirit, Quezon City on September 1, 2012. This event aimed to help BanKO’s…
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SEDPI’s Financial Literacy Training Inspires 1,459 High School Students
On June 13, 2012, SEDPI facilitated its “Financial Literacy for Teens” training to approximately 1,459 fourth year high school students in Silang, Cavite. The Sisters of Mary Schools (SMS), a non-stock, no-paying, live-in institution for the marginalized poor in the Philippines houses the students. The school chooses students from poor families all over the Philippines…