1. OFW-entrepreneurs in unserved areas to benefit from Php 10-M loan
   
2. Jomar Ladio: From good deeds to micro-business
   
3. Livelihood for Linamon
   
4. Elsa Belarmino: Migrant worker turned entrepreneur
   
5. Building Bridges
   
6. Global activist launches campaign to cut cost of sending remittances
   
7. Unlad Davao at migrant rights training in Cambodia
   
8. Coco coir project at business matching visit to Korea
   
9. Bringing MSAI to more Taiwan
   
10. Unlad Kabayan, Taiwan partners strengthen MSAI
    
11. Youth VCO producers win in British Council contest
    
12. Shaminoden Sambitory: Learn from other cultures
    
13. Migrant returnee trains at Jandug noodle factory
    
14. Sharing Unlad Kabayan’s experience in Indonesia
    
15. Unlad Kabayan one of four reporters of civil society to GFMD-Brussels
    
16. Cooking up profit
    
17. Lanao SEEDS Center
    
18. Giving credit to the entrepreneurial poor

Unlad Kabayan Receives the YES the Filipino CAN! Award

Another prestigious award, YES THE FILIPINO CAN! was given to Unlad Kabayan on October 22, 2008 for channeling  the economic contributions of our country’s overseas workers in developing community enterprises... more
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Pilipino Time Forum

As part of the civil society activities during the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD), Unlad Kabayan held the Pilipino Time forum on October 23, 2008, 9 am to 12 noon at the Remedios Jubilee Mission Center, Malate... more
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Social Enterprise Visit

Unlad Kabayan conducted the Social Enterprise Visit on October 20-22, 2008 in Mindanao. The three-day activities showcased enterprises owned and managed by Filipinio migrant workers as examples to other MSAI stakeholders such as MFA campaigning for MSAI and possible MSAI partners... more
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Unlad Kabayan Wins in Panibagong Paraan 2008

Mayor Lumaque of LGU-Kolambugan, economist Winnie Monsod (one of the jurors), and May-an Villalba

Unlad Kabayan’s “New Lives for Old – Peace, Growth and Good Governance through Social Enterprise” was one of 33 winning entries to receive project grants of up to Php 1 million at World Bank Philippines’ Panibagong Paraan 2008. More...
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Unlad Kabayan: A Dose of Hope for OFWs

By Dennis Carcamo, abs-cbnNEWS.com - Pinoy Migration, March 27, 2008

It has become a cycle of migration: Filipino workers go abroad, earn a little, return to the Philippines, use up the savings, and then work abroad again. More often than not, overseas workers do not get to break this cycle. More...
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Sweet and Sour Flight

By Babes Romualdez, Philippine Star – Business, January 31, 2008

In spite of it all, there’s still some good news. The wife of the former Canadian Ambassador to the Philippines, Mrs. Marilyn Collette, told me that there was this Filipina who was a participant in the “invitation only” Summit for Social Entrepreneurs that was held in Zurich last week. More...

Education and Training News:

1. Course on Strategic Perspective in Non-Profit Management
   
2. Annual World Public Forum: "Dialogue of Civilizations"
   
3. Insead Social Entrepreneurship Programme
   
4. MSAI Presentation at High Level International Dialogue on Migration
   
5. First ABCD Asia Pacific Conference

Unlad Kabayan's Executive Director is Social Entrepreneur of the Year

With Kevin Teo (left) of Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, and Reynaldo David (right) of DBP

From Business World, February 6, 2008

Maria Angela Villalba, Executive Director of Unlad Kabayan Migrant Services Foundation, was named Social Entrepreneur of 2007 in the recent awards sponsored globally by Ernst & Young, and in the Philippines by SGV Foundation. More...

Unlad Kabayan's Executive Director on Mornings@ANC

With Mornings @ ANC host Ricky Carandang

May-an Villalba, Unlad Kabayan’s executive director, recently appeared on the news program “Mornings @ ANC” on the ABS-CBN News Channel. More...

OFW Boycotts in the Works

By Miko Morelos
Philippine Daily Inquirer
March 13, 2008

Different OFW groups, including the militant Migrante, recently called for a “Zero Remittance day” to dramatize their protest against President Macapagal-Arroyo in connection with the scandal-ridden $329-million National Broadband Network deal with China’s ZTE Corp. More..

Int'l Women's Day at Reintegration Center

Elsa Belarmino (2nd from right), who started her business through the reintegration program of Hope Workers Center and Unlad Kabayan

On March 7, Unlad Kabayan celebrated International Women's Day with returned migrant women at the National Reintegration Center for OFWs (NRCO) in Intramuros, Manila.