 Sayon sa ating webinar 6 series. Usapang Katie, social entrepreneurs, kabuhayan, palasabayan, next. Si Grace Gorospihamon po ito, isang professor ng political science dito sa Inversidad ng Pilipina. Salamat sa pagpapakunlak na maging moderator dito. At meron akong kasama ang co-moderator natin dito, isang icon sa social entrepreneurship. Syempre, ayoko nang mag-isa, malungkot ang mag-isa. Dr. Dacanay, itong ating kasama ngayong co-moderator was awarded Outstanding Social Innovation Talk Leader of the Year in 2019. Congratulations Lisa, by the Swell Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and the World Economic Forum. For her pioneering efforts and leadership role in the region as founding president of the Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia. Mag-ilaw ka muna. Happy to co-moderate this forum Grace with you. Okay. This special webinar series po on academic freedom may also be viewed by a live streaming on YouTube, at the TV UP channel as well as on TV UP FB page. Acknowledgements po, unahin na natin. This special webinar series po is organized jointly by the UP system, led by the Office of the Vice President for Public Affairs, Office of Alumni Relations, Media and Public Relations, UP Information Technology Development Center, and TV UP in cooperation with the UP Alumni Freedom Project and Samasa Alumni Association. So napar tayong magpatumpik-tumpik, Lisa, can you do your background of what this is all about? Thank you Grace. To start the discussion, I would just like to give you a background about what social entrepreneurship and social enterprise is kasi siguro yung ilan sa inyo know about social enterprise yung ilan hindi. So what is social entrepreneurship? It is a global phenomenon and it is about the pursuit of innovative solutions to social problems. Social enterprises may be considered as hybrid organizations. Anong hibigong sabi ng hybrid para silang NGOs because they are social mission driven, but they are like businesses because they create wealth. But unlike ordinary businesses, they create and distribute the wealth to the poor who are their primary stakeholders or their reason for being. Before the pandemic, social enterprises already numbered around 160,000 plus. Ang ibig sabihin ito, if we get them as a percentage of the number of enterprises in the country, they would be about 18% of the country's enterprises. And they have steadily grown over the years despite no systematic support from government. And they were considered by the UN system as accelerators for the sustainable development goals. Yung ibasiguro po sa inyo, alam niyo na yung paaling sustainable development goals. Ito yung zero poverty, no hunger, sustainable communities yan. All these ambitious goals by 2030. And with the pandemic, they are critical partners of the poor and marginalized sectors in inclusive recovery and building back terror. The sector, led by the poverty reduction through social entrepreneurship coalition, has led the campaign to pass what is called the poverty reduction through social entrepreneurship bill as a peaceful pathway to address poverty and inequality, which we can consider are the root causes of social unrest and insurgency. And this afternoon, we are very lucky to have as panelists for this episode, icons of the social enterprise sector serving different marginalized sectors and constituencies. And they will be sharing with us their social enterprise models, how they contribute to nation building, and how academic freedom figured in their journey towards social entrepreneurship. So Grace baka pwede na nating i-introduce yung ating unang panelists. Salamat, Lisa. Napakainpustanti na nating i-insat niyo. And thank you for inviting all of these icons of social entrepreneurship. Ang una po natin guest, I see Dr. Jaime Aristotel B. Alip. So Dr. Aris Alip is the founder of the Center for Agriculture and World Development Mutually Reinforcing Institutions, known as Pride MRI. And is the 2008, congratulations, bosser, Ramon Magsaisay Awardee for Public Service. He is now Chairman Emeritus of Card NGO. Take it away, Dr. Jaime. Thank you. Thank you, Grace. Thank you also, Lisa. And of course, thank you a lot, the university system, and Adumnai UP and other organizers. Alam niyo malaking bagay sa aking ito because this is my way of giving back as a start of having studied in UP. And I'm very proud to become an alumnus of UP, graduate in the Lasbanos campus. Alam niyo, yung academic freedom and the atmosphere that UP gave me allowed me to think through and challenge existing traditional concept in economics. I'm a graduate of agri-economics. O marame akong chinalins dito. And that's why I came about this card MRI. And this is how now I have become and how card MRI has become. May I request Gomer to without further do my slides, please? So this is my story in poverty eradication in the Philippines. The card MRI approach. Next slide, please. I started card about 35 years ago with only 20 pesos and a magic type right there. This is how I started. And fast forward. Today, card is now a group of social enterprises around 23 of them already, nag-gana na kami. Nag-grow na to 23 reinforcing institution driven by the passion and also the passion is eradicating poverty. Next slide, please, Gomer. Yung kami nagsimula sa card NGO. My vision is really to set up and establish a bank that is owned and managed by the poor people in the Philippines kasi dito kuna kita ang may hirap, talagang walang hindi issue sa akin ng access. Ang issue sa akin is control of resources. Yan na napag-arala natin sa UP. Gagaling ang buhay mo, kung may control ka sa resources. This is one principle that I've learned. So I challenged that. And of course, that idea 35 years ago was a very crazy idea. Walang naniliwala sa aking mga kasaman noon. Hiractato mo na nako. Paano ka mag-establish sa isang bank ko? Ang may any may hirap. At sila pa ang mag-manage imposible. Fast forward again. Pakipindut lang yung susunod. Now, we successfully now have three banks owned substantially by our membership. First, the card bank is the first microfinance-oriented bank in the country which is now substantially owned by the members. They own us. And we also have our own urban bank which is the card-result bank. Yung card bank is more focused on the rural areas, the countryside. Yung sa urban areas may rindin namin specialized bank yan, yung card-result bank. And then those who graduate nilalagay namin at ginag-graduate namin, yung sa aming isang higher-level banking, ito yung card-SME bank. From micro-entrepreneurs, they have become SME. Rumakinahin, negotiate nila sa they need more funding, they need more technical assistance and other kinds of financial and financial services. Next ano, Pakipindut lang. So today, we now have 23 reinforcing institutions. These are our own social enterprises. We are the first microfinance bank in the country. We are also the first micro-insurance institution in the country that is now serving the poorest among the poor. Sila rin ang mayari ng aming micro-insurance company. Ang pagkakaiba ng aming micro-insurance were known as the 135 institution. Pagmay claim, within one day, babayari namin yan. In three days, kumay questions and five days with finality. Now, in improve namin yan, ngayon ay 8.24, kasi gawa ng mga ito mga pagbabago sa digital, within eight hours, kaya na namin bayaran and with finality, 24 hours. So meron kami micro-insurance company, tatluyan. Meron din kami health program. We own our own clinics. We have several doctors, several nurses, pharmacists. We also have our own pharmacy company that provides generic medicine, masmura, and quality para sa aming mga membership. We also have established our own school of micro-finance. This is in CMDI, Card MRI Development Institute, wherein we are now opening entrepreneurship, bachelor degree, accountancy, IT, even courses on tourism. And we have also our own publishing company, our newspaper. So all moving towards eradicating poverty. Yan ang gusto namin gawin. Tapos na ang kahirapan dito sa Pilipinas. Yan ang aming mantra ngayon. So all these different institutions are now moving towards poverty eradication. Next slide, please. Ang aming special focus, at hindi namin talaga iniiwan, hanggang pang mula na nag-upisa ako, ang focus namin ay mga kababayahan. Yung mga may hirap na kababayahan. The marginalized group, yung mga IPs and also hard to reach areas. Even the farming sector, pumunta na rin kami dun because we felt that they are also badly in need of assistance. Yung aming, binibegay na assistance dito sa aming target group is not only on the financial services but also non-financial products. To include health, education, medicine, nutrition, and other kinds of non-financial services including financial literacy. Because we felt that this is the best way to approach poverty. Let's move forward. Next slide. At yung aming giragawa, 35 years na, as of December 2020, meron coming 3,500 offices all over the country. We're present in 100% of the provinces in the country, 85 provinces. We're present in 96% of all the cities and municipalities of the country. And of course, 96% of all the villages and barang gays in our country. Our full-time command is more than about 17,280 staff as of December. We're all over the places. We are operating in the last frontier of the country right there in Tawi-Tawi, sitangkay 30 minutes away na dung ka na sa Sabah Malaysia. We're also in Balut Island that's about 45 minutes. You're already in Indonesia. We're even in Batanes. So rinig mo na yung pilaot ng manok doon sa Taiwan. So we're all working towards really reaching the poorest part of our country. And we've also because of many requests from card, we're also operating in eight countries in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong for the OAWs, Pilipino, Myanmar, Lagos, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia and Vietnam. So these are the areas that we're operating also within Southeast Asia. Next slide please. This is our approach beyond this and continuing even though with this pandemic. Next slide. Because of the pandemic that we have experienced last year, this became an opportunity for us and that became a constraint. So it hastened our digitization. So kinunvert na namin halos lahat ng aming mga branches the whole 3,500 into digital banking and mobile banking. Para yung mga nana yung di na we call our clients nana because these are mostly women and gina gamit nalang nila yung mga gadget kalimitan para magbayad mag-release kami ng loan pa kumuhan ng savings through our agents. Next slide. So yan yung aming core banking system so we were using mobile collect shop, digital cash machine, chatbot if you want to get a loan branch banking and also we have this connect to card. Yung connect to card is very powerful. Para nga PayMaya or G-Cast pwede magbayad yung member pwede rin magbayad ng bills payment pwede rin mag- withdraw pwede rin mag-save through our all over about 10,000 agents all over the country. So ito yung naging move namin. Next slide please. And then we have transformed also our marketing. We also have a marketing office. We put that online. We now have an application buy and sell online. So all our clients are free to put in all their products special agriculture and non-agriculture products so do nag-be-bilihan. It has become a very busy market online place for us and then we also have our card e-doctor so yung health program namin dahil nga sa mga protocol meron kami regular almost every day one hour to two hours per day meron kami regular lecture or sharing of the health programs by our doctors. In our school we have converted it also on online education and also for training for our staff. So next slide. I know I have limited time. So ito yung aming before focusing na yun. We're also serving not only micro entrepreneurs, SME. We're now heavy on agricultural sector. Importante ang food na yun and yung mga farmers that we are assisting are now we're providing all the needed credit and all the needed inputs. We're also giving loans for electronic equipment and gadgets especially for students. Food related ventures health related ventures even micro insurance. We also have our own disaster insurance pag nasira yung bahay na binagdiyo, nakainsyu yung bahay nila and we're also pushing for business interruption insurance para sa may hirap and then productive loan for SME and micro entrepreneurs. Tuloy-tuloy pa rin yan. The next slides which I will show to you this is my last slide. Ano kayo nyo naging output? Kahit na may pandemic nag-increase pa rin yung aming membership by around 7.2 million clients at the close of 2020. And this is about 80% of the micro finance client of the entire industry. The industry has around 9 million so we are about 7.2 million. The number of insured individuals that we are insuring is around 27 million lives because we have this family insurance. We are very dominant in micro insurance. 80% of the industry belongs to our insurance. So at ako yung atutua dito dahil ito yung pili ang mga may hirap ay nakaka-access. Pag gamay na matay ba bayarang kaagad namin pag nasiray ang bahay nga bayarang kaagad namin basa naka-insure even their businesses. Today, from 20 pesos ang total resources ng card ngayon ay umang-abuts about 60 billion pesos. So yun ang aming our repayment rate before the pandemic was 99.49% naka-pandemic medyo nahirapang kami pero by the close of December 2020 we have shown the resilience of our clients. Umabot na uleg sa 93% and by the end of this quarter of this aloh ba balik kami sa 99%. And our operational sufficiency financially is still very strong kahit na naka-pandemic okay pa rin yung aming financial we're still under block and with 110 self-sufficiency. I will end here now because I am limited by time constraints so I'm very happy that this thing is being organized. Parayong mong salamat sa UP. Yes, thank you very much Dr. Alip. Ang masasabi ko lang di ba? Grace, wow! It's inspiring, wow! Very inspiring. I'm very much excited for this award. So, salamat, Aris. So, from financial services punta naman tayo sa kape no? So our next panelist is Mrs. Alvira Virelles. Virelles is the co-founder and CEO of BOTY Central which is the owner and manufacturer of mga coffee that is exported like coffee alamid no? And yung mga ilang coffee coffee products na makikita natin sa mga supermarkets gaya ng Basilio coffee to share 18-base coffee roaster and meron silang bagong produkto in-instant coffee, okay? She's also the acting president of the Philippine Coffee Alliance a network of community-based coffee enterprises that actually are co-owned by farmers and producing their own brands of coffee in over 50 coffee farming communities in the Philippines, no? So may I introduce to you another icon of social entrepreneurship is Mrs. Virelles. Virelles, take it away. Okay, Virelles. Virelles, are you there? May mga ilang challenges tayo dito sa ano? Sa ating... Maka tungka, Lisa, no? Oh, oh. Talaga naman inspiring. So, okay. Pa ang mga nagawa nila. Ya, hindi ba si Virelles? Virelles, are you there? Mukhayat, yan. There's Virelles. So take it away, Virelles. Virelles, muted ka. Hi, Virelles. Sorry, nagkaroon ang problema. Wait, come on. Sorry. Go ahead. Relax. Can you make me the third presenter nalang if that's okay? Nakakaroon ang problem in connection ko na. Just now, just now. I'm sorry. Yes, okay. Go ahead, Grace. Grace, go ahead. Grace, gusto mong e-introduce na natin? Sir Grace? May request po na si Virelles. Mamaya, makatapos na... Miss Recy Fernandez Ruiz. Allow me to have the privilege of introducing her. Si Miss Recy Fernandez Ruiz po is the president and founding partner of the award-winning fashion and design house, Rags to Reaches. I'm sure na rinignan natin yan. She and Rags to Reaches have earned global acclaim for improving the lives and position of Filipino ubon poor artisans through up-cycle, eco-ethical... Eco-ethical at sustainable. Sustainable fashion. Take it away, Re. Recy, is she around? Yes, I am. Hello, magandang hapon po sa inyong gahat. My name is Rees Fernandez Ruiz and I'm very thankful to be here today. Maraming salamat sa pag-invita po sa akin. Ninang Lisa. Hindi ko na matatanggal yung Nina forever. Dr. Grace, maraming salamat po. So, I'll start with this. So, ripple effect. So one of my guiding principles in life just to share with everyone is to make decisions as if their effects will be felt even 100 years from now. So everything that I do, everything that I've done, everything I'm doing, they're all part, in part because of the decisions of so many people in my life. So this is one of the reasons why I became part of the group that founded Rags to Reaches 13 years ago na po in Payatas. So ito po si Atty Marge. She was a stay-at-home mother who used to weave foot rugs out of scrap fabric or bangaritaso to earn extra income for her family. But because she did not have access to the market or the raw materials, she would rely on middlemen and the middlemen would get bulk of the income. She'd only have about 12 to 16 pesos per day for weaving around 10 rugs per day. And she was not the only one affected by this unfair supply chain. There were many of them and she's to the reason why we started Rags to Reaches. So today, we are a fashion and design house empowering community artisans from the Philippines. So for the past 13 years, we were able to provide artisans with fair and regular livelihood. We have also conducted skills training and other kinds of modules to upgrade the skills and knowledge of our artisan partners. We have also reached different parts of the world and gained loyal advocates throughout the years. So marami po sa inyo ay nan dito po din yata. We also got to collaborate with some of the most amazing fashion designers in the Philippines such as Raho Laurel and Amina Aranas Alunan. And we also now have our very own design team led by a very talented veteran designer Christian Sarah and up-and-coming apparel designer Chesca Federizon. And even when last year and even this year has been tough, the future is still hopeful. We have sealed a partnership with Ikea Philippines and R2R will be the official sewing services provider of the biggest Ikea in the world. So our online store is also growing and we have even launched an online store in North America last October. So tuto upon, this year has been, well, this year, last year and this year, they've been very challenging for so many people. But we are still surviving and still hopeful because of our purpose of lifting Filipino artisans out of poverty. So because of this purpose, we're able to rise up again and again like failures and there were lots and the lessons that we have learned throughout the past 13 years are the lessons that we remember while going through the last year. I also started this talk saying that I'm here because of many people and experiences. So while I share these lessons, I will also share the influences from my university that helped me learn from, learn all of them. So I came from atinayo naman, kapit bahay lang tayo. Pero madalas din kami sa UP. So and I have a lot of friends from UP and we resonate so much with each other's values. So the first challenge we have ever encountered was building trust in our community. When we got to know the artisans, we thought everything was going to be smooth. We thought that the artisans would be so happy to partner with us. If you look at this picture, we all look so happy. But the backstage is really much more messier. Trust was very hard to build. The artisans we worked with have been through so much. So they've been promised so much even before we arrived. And so we realize for those who have been hurt before, trusting is harder, just like in your love life, right? So when the wounds are deep, words alone don't matter. So the first lesson we learned from this challenge is that trust needs to be built over time. Words are not enough. Short-term actions are not enough. Promises are not enough. Again, just like love life. So even today, 13 years later, we are still building this trust. So it takes years to build, but it is never really built. Hindi siya natatapos. You continue building it and you never stop. I learned how important trust is, not just because of our experience in Payatas, but because of my experience from the orgs that I joined in school in Ataneo. So because of the opportunities I was given to step outside of school to get to know real communities and process these experiences with my mentors, I learned that trust is the foundation for everything. So this was a very old picture. Obviously, pixelated na siya. I couldn't find a higher resolution picture. It's really that old. And so, it's years ago and we were in Gabaldon, Nueva Isija, building homes. Another challenge we encountered in the early days came from our subconscious belief that we know better. Kasi de ba ang galeng? We've graduated from a great university. So we're like, we know a lot. When we started working with our first partner designer, Rahul Orel, he re-envisioned the woven mats of our artisans from rugs to fashion accessories. So kami naman, the co-founders thought of adding our own ideas. So we thought of stitching animal-printed fabric lining just like the picture that you see in front of you. We wanted to put that inside the bag as the lining of the bags. So we shared this idea to the artisans and they were so excited. But when they came back to us with the fabric they sourced, this is what they showed us. So animals naman talaga. So whenida po naman is an animal. But it's not exactly what we had in mind. We were initially so confused on where we went wrong when it came to giving the instructions. And then we realized that for the artisans from a community that is struggling in poverty, animal print is very trivial. They have to think about like more important things, leba? We realized that our idea only considered what we know and did not consider the artisans. So even if we spoke the same language pareho naman kami nang sinasabi pareho kami ng lingguahe we did not really understand each other. So that time and many others really humbled us and taught us what real collaboration should look like. So during times of misunderstanding with my communities, I drew my communication tools from some of my best teachers and mentors that I had in school. My learning style is actually mirroring. So I initially copied the storytelling styles and clarity of messaging of my mentors and teachers. So the clearer they were when I was in school, the better I was able to copy how they did it. So many of these styles and techniques I still use up to today. So another challenge the last one that we encountered is something that a lot of us encounter. So correction, it's not the last one that we encountered. It's just the last one that I'm going to share today. So many of us expect that when we do what we love it will not feel like work. But the truth is you'll probably work much harder. The stakes will be much higher and your heart will break more often when you truly love what you do. So see, I love what I do in R2R. I love our advocacy. I love our purpose. I even love all of our spreadsheets that I used to organize the company. But you know, I realized very early on that doing what you love will come with a lot of pain. So this photo is from our Christmas Party last 2016. So si Doc Aris, partner namin yan sa R2R. So alam niya to mga kwentong to. And we're very close to him. He's one of the people who really helped us also get to where we are right now. So this photo is from our Christmas Party last 2016. In this exact moment, I was actually telling the artisans about the very real possibility that that was our last Christmas Party as a company. So we almost closed last 2016 after years of struggling. So from the outside, we look great, right? So I told you all about the great things that we are doing right now. But from the inside, especially a few years ago, we were very messy. I also made a lot of mistakes and we only made it right now because of the support of a few partners, perseverance of our team and artisans and to be honest, also because of luck. So we held on to the very last thread of hope because of our purpose. We let it guide our pivots. We learned the hard way that there are ways to figure out the what and the how if we know the why. So but when times were incredibly hard and I did not feel motivated, I was able to pull through because of discipline and this really I learned from school and from the people I work with. When I did not feel like doing the work, I paused for a bit and rested but never left the work undone. So while I am and will always be guided by my why, I don't wait for inspiration or motivation to strike. I do the work anyway even if I don't feel like it. But let's go back to the why. So this is at the march again and this photo was actually taken about 10 years ago. Pre-pandemic, she was a star ambassador in art to art store in UP town center. But now since the stars are like very poor at foot traffic, she is now a virtual customer service associate. So because we are clear about our purpose of creating opportunities and lifting Filipino artisans out of poverty, we just adjusted and pivoted accordingly. So we are strong believers that decisions are indeed powerful beyond what your eyes can see. So my decision 13 years ago led us to where I am today but I'm also a product of the decision of others. So I'm also influenced by my experiences shaped by the decision of others. So imagine how our world can change if more of us deeply understand our responsibility towards one another and we can make decisions and actions accordingly. So that would be truly a better normal. Thank you so much everyone and very honored to be here. Maraming salamat, Rhys. Siyempre, proud Nina. Ah, no. It's not young and yet so profoundly wise that you are doing it. Siguro puwede na nating tavagin si Bai and I will need not introduce you again Bai so please take it away. Good afternoon. Sorry sa interruption kanina. So our social enter ah sorry TV UP can you please share my screen? Okay. So ang social enterprise business model is a production and consumption program to have a resilient sustainable coffee industry for the Philippines. With the farmers the women and the youth in the coffee producing communities having the freedom to choose the freedom of opportunity and capability to play the active vertical roles in the coffee value chain from upstream to downstream. We buy coffee from the farmers at the same time bought essential our family social enterprise. We also sell coffee roasting equipment facilities to farmer clusters which we did initially through the government procurement in particular with the Department of Agriculture. So if you can see meron tayong gyan green coffee beans merong roasted coffee and merong roasting machine. Both our family enterprise and that of the farmer clusters have roasted coffee as products to sell to the markets. With the model we advocate this particular business model nakakalamang po ang mga communities natin dahil sila rin ang mayari ng lupa mga bundok na sa kanila ang mga tanim na sa kanila ang mga producto ng kape. We believe that using a transformational approach this unique novel innovative model would help our industry increase the much-needed supply of coffee. Next slide please. Traditionally eto po dalawang slides po pinapakita natin jan. The roasting process is normally controlled by the big players in the coffee industry global coffee industry. Roasting is the process which adds the most value to coffee. We saw the need to introduce appropriate technologies and system to benefit the coffee-producing communities mostly whereby the producers are transformed to become the roasters too. My husband being an inventor designed and built a coffee-roasting machine a technology which was awarded with an invention pattern. We made this available for the coffee-growing communities. The technology contains artificial intelligence. It is farmer and women-friendly. It gives the impetus for business to sustain business and to give a competitive advantage to the farmer owned and managed community-based social enterprise. Next slide please. This is part of the vision of the Philippine Coffee Alliance which I currently head off. I'm now the acting president which was also founded by both the central together with all the other stakeholders in 2009 pinagisipan na po namin to together with all the development partners that we were working with. But it was we only had our first general assembly last 2013 and nabasbasan po kami ng DA Department of Agriculture during the time of secretary then secretary Prosi Alcala. So we share this vision of having an empowered local coffee industry which we believe that we should benefit most the coffee-producing communities. I would always go back to that line na kung meron pung makikinabang sa industry ang ngkape sila po dapat yung mga mayari ng lupa na mga bundo na mga tanim at na mga kape dahil they would always be the gardens of the forests. This community branded coffees as she will see konti lang po yan nang jens o slide ngayon. I'm sorry So these community branded coffees which are starting to proliferate in the market and in this slide we are showing some of them. These are the ties that bind us together with the coffee farmers. Having their own name in their product spells a lot of difference for them. It promotes their culture, their identity and it gives them so much pride na nandun po yung pangalan nila na nandun yung kumpano nilaginawa yung goseso that they can also produce quality coffee to get side by side with all the international brands that we have right now. Currently the Philippine Coffee Alliance has an ongoing program in partnership with the Forest Foundation Philippines operating in the Bukidno and Misamis Oriental Landscape in Mindanao empowering 14 IT communities using the framework of community-based coffee social enterprise to conserve and enhance the forest ecosystem of Bukidno and Misamis Oriental. We hope to do this in other areas as well together with Forest Foundation. Hopefully magtulung-tulung po ito. Next slide please. There you go. Women. How we love women in the coffee industry. Women play a very vital role in every part of the value chain of coffee. Smula sa pagtatanim, harvesting coffee cherries, organizing the community-based enterprises, maintaining the nursery, teaching, sharing knowledge to other farmers. May hindi ko kasi makuento ang mga babae. They will pay magaling sa numero ang mga babae, cooking, brewing coffee, roasting coffee. In our place, puro ka babae po ang mga nag-operate ang mga machine. The women still find time on top of all of this processes in coffee. The women find time to take care of the family. So, I would always say that without women, there would be no coffee. Next slide please. Sa pag-iikut-ikut po namin tibang partin mag-Filipinas. We go from north to south. We go around the Philippines and we have seen that the best practices in coffee processing is that of Sultan Kudarat Coffee Ventures. A community-based coffee social enterprise in partnership with the indigenous peoples, located in the most remote part of the Philippines, down south in Mindanao, na sa Sultan Kudarat. They exhibit and promote values of social equity with the IT farmers, community and their employees. They also maintain good manufacturing practices in their processing facility. They are aggressively targeting to reach and process 10 tons of coffee per month. The biggest volume capacity for a community-based enterprise I've seen even bigger than both essential, our own family enterprise. As for government statistics, Sultan Kudarat supplies 67% of robusta green beans. Ito po yung ginagamit sa pagawa ng instant coffee and is the major source of coffee for a multinational company. However, nowadays, dahil meron na silang processing facility of their own, a big part of their supply is processed into roasted coffee and sold to various markets in Mindanao. Next slide, please. We have witnessed that the community-based farmer-entrepreneur model has shown residency can survive and cross over this COVID pandemic. Ng 2020 po, kinabahan din kami dahil ano na ang mga ngayari sa mga kape natin. The organized coffee clusters of farmers, the women and youth, we all had problems of lockdown. Hindi po makapag-byahay ang mga produkto, from province to province or from the province to Manila. And what can we do to support the 5,000 farmer households that we have been working with and increasing pa? So the organized clusters of farmers who were processing their own roasted coffee beans nakasarabay po sila during the pandemic because they were processing their own roasted coffee and serving their local markets. As travel has been restricted during this pandemic, local buyers and consumers also have diminished purchase in power. Still, the delivery and transport of agricultural products remain to be a challenge until now and is even more costly. The local economic principle or the first mile principle worked to the advantage of these community-based coffee enterprises. Ano po ba itong first mile principle because we would normally hear the last mile. But this first mile principle is kung saan ginagawa yung produkto doon po yung no process, doon din po yung no consume. So to give you a picture with 5,000 farmers producing and estimate 100 kilos each probably taken from 300 coffee trees per farmer. We can provide one coffee cup per day to a million Filipinos good for five months as per our projections and computation at a price of half the prevailing market price of the popular instant coffee right now. So on the farmer's end 100 kilos of green beans like say, for example, rubusta translates to 10,000 pesos. But if it is in roasted coffee form these 100 kilos could become 30,000 pesos three times more than the value of the green coffee beans. We are also now initiating a digital platform, an enterprise and monitoring system for these community-based coffee enterprises and that, of course, includes our family enterprise. Dito po lat nagmumula kung saan kami nagmumonitor kung saan yung testing namin ng system. So we will be doing it first here then we will be disseminating these to all of the community-based coffee enterprises. Remember, good data and good information will help us make participative decision making not just for us but for the farmers themselves and the women doon sa communities nila. They have their own data, they can use their own data and they can make their own decision. The integrated farmer's social enterprise model provides, of course, we promise you, we will be able to taste good value-for-money Filipino coffee. So yun lang po ang ginawa namin since 2004 when we entered the coffee industry and kay tapano po masaya po kami dahil lumalaki po yung pamilyan ng cafe dito sa Pilipinas and more are malami na po ang tumatang kilik not just here in the Philippines but worldwide. Coffee cheers, everyone! Maraming salamat by and thank you also to reasonaries of all your inspiring stories about how you're uplifting the poor out of poverty in various contexts. Siguro ngayon Grace let's ask the participants to actually write in the chat box as well as the Q&A, yung mga questions nila at saka kung saan nila where they are viewing from kasi gusto saan na natin ishout out kayo later. Maraming mga comments saan dumarating, Lisa at isa pang magandang sinabi dito masarap daw ang capimyo sa mga nakakikina and siguro Grace at this point in time we can actually we can do the shout out later when we can actually pwede na ba natin iintroduce yung next yung reactor. We will now start the session with the reactor so may I first introduce our first reactor. Mr. Earl Parenyo is a social entrepreneur and chairperson of the Altair Trade Foundation Incorporated which is recognized for their successful model of transforming landless sugar workers turned agrarian reform beneficiaries into farmer entrepreneurs resulting to their movement out of poverty. So without much to do Earl take it away. Salamat Lisa Magandang hapon sa lahat. Hello Grace Magandang hapon. So I'll start my reaction doon sa kung napapansin nyo the presenters sa naplo ay microcredit may coffee manufacturing then yung artisan yung from rags to riches mga innovations dito sa kanyang-kanyang sector. Doon naman sa Negros Occidental Marami sa inyo na nakakaalam ay sugar baulito ng Pilipinas more than 60% ng asukar natin ay nagbuladon. At kung nakapunta na kayo sa Negros kalbula ang bulugon duking kasi kinalbo ng mga asyendero o yung malalaki implantasyon ng sugar para makapagproduce lang sila ng sugar. So it was very lucrative especially after World War II. Ang dahanan namin 27 years na Ang Outer Crate Foundation ang nakitaan namin bagamat na naging mayyaman ang mayyaman ang mga asyendero ang mga workers naman sa tubuhan ay mahirap na mahirap nakakarinig siguro kayo yung know about sakadas eto yung mga workers na nanggaling sa iba-tibang provincia at pumukunta sa Negros para magtrabaho. And yet walang isa o bihirang bihira na nakakarinig kami ng isang sakada na umunlad ang kabuhayan sa Negros. In fact 90% 95% sa kanila pagdating nila ay may mga laman pa ng pera ang dulsa nila pero natali sila sa mga utang at hindi na sila makalapa. So ito yung inadres namin na problema. Paano namin inadres unang nakipagtyap kami doon sa mga NGOs at sa gobierno para iimplement ang agrarian program. At yung mga nakatanggap na mga lupa sa agrarian program ay tinulungan namin dahil ang isa sa mga walang wala talaga na mga kaalaman ay itong mga farm workers. So inintroduce namin ang technology ng organic farming then pre-provide namin sila ng capital para sa production capital nila dahil actualy kaya maraming mga failures mga nakatanggap ng lupa at binabalik nila sa kung saan-saan man pinapariyendaw tavag nyan ay dahil wala sila production capital at sa ka binigyan din namin sila ng basic financial management. Inorganize namin ang mga sa kada into farming co-operatives para mag-produce ng sugar cane at ang sugar cane map-process nila ang iba nito into mascovado. It was our company who first exported mascovado sugar sa Japan sa Europe, sa US at sa Kasakoria. So ito yung mga ano yung nag-impact nito? Actually, ang model, ang approach namin sa poverty reduction ay gagawin ang farm workers into real farmers dahil di naman sila marunong unlike rice farmers o imbab pang mga farmers inutusan lang sila workers lang talaga sila. So we have to transform then into real farmers. Then from real farmers we transform them into farmer entrepreneurs. Sa ngayon nakakaroon na sila ng sariling pag-pro-processo ng mga produkto nila, yung sugar cane nila, may community-based mascovado production din kami. Dahil organic farming ang ginagawa, so dapat ang lupa mo ay diversified ang mga tanim. May mga calamansi sila na prinoprocess nila into bottled calamansi juice, may mga turmeric at ano sila mga powder they turn into powder at imbab pang mga produkto, banana chips, gano. From there, nakakaprasas sila, tinutulungan naman namin sila to market these. In fact, we've partnered we've partnered with the cooperatives. Pilederate nila itong mga organization nila. There are 13 farmer cooperatives, ARB cooperatives na nagpederate into what is called the Negros Organic and Fair Trade Association. Itong nofta na iton or federation na ito ay mag-tiep kami with Alter Trade Foundation at sinet up namin ang Nofta Fair Trade House. Ito yung trading company ng farmers 40% owned by Alter Trade Foundation 60% owned by the farmers themselves. So, ganoon yung ganoon yung approach namin. We completed a loop from primary production to distribution. Then we also parang help Nofta expand to other areas help their neighboring farms para anuman yung kita nila or na about agrarian reform beneficiaries na ito ay ma-share nila doon sa mga neighboring areas also. So, I think yun lang muna then may time pa ba ako? Napakaganda po transformation ang ginawanin nyo into making farmer entrepreneurs, into making landless sugar workers into agrarian reform beneficiaries and farmer entrepreneurs. That's really para-disease. Maybe mamaya po tayo mag-quentohan nang gusto. Siguro taposi natin yung mga discussions nung iba. Ang susunod po ngayon that we will have is Estrelia Maydison Chiang kanabah She is the executive director of the Global Academy on Migration and Development and Chairperson of the Atika Overseas Workers and Communities Initiative Incorporate. She is also part of the Board of Trustees of the Overseas Workers' Welfare Administration. So, take it away mamastrelia. Thank you, Dr. Grace. And thank you also for the invitation, Dr. Lisa. Kagaya ni Dr. Alep honored ako na na-invita ko dito kasi ganun din yung feeling ko this is giving back to UP. Kasi ang laki-laki ng contribution ng UP education ko kung ano ako ngayon. Napaka kung titignan ko yung life story ko, kung ano yung mga significant events sa buhay ko being enrolled in UP is one of them kasi nung time na yun, of course galing ka sa province, wala kang alam and then my school galing ako ng Pampanga galing ako ng Pampanga galing ako ng mapunta ka sa UP siyempre ibang-ibano where ang amaze talaga ako noon how our professors nung time na yun magubuko kung anong edad ko na amaze ako how they can speak ang ideas nila when during that time it was martial law lahat tayo, tako, dami natin ayaw pero hindi tayo makapagsalita and I think yun yung learning ko never be afraid to criticize kasi dapat nandood ka sa tama yun yung ano ko and also nakita ko din which I apply until now is yung social consciousness yung social consciousness mo na nakuha mo sa UP hindi mo yun mawawala sa mong buhay mo because parang yun yung measure mo the way you live your life so that's why sinasabi ko I'm so grateful sa UP for that yung project na ito I was really rejoicing that you did this guys so yung ano yung atika kung ano yung work kung ano it's working with Oversies Filipinos in UP in college of nursing but I shifted laging student Professor Lisa sa AIM Master's in Social Entrepreneurship doon ako na sa social enterprise and kagayon nina-vine, nina-rease and also si Dr. Alep yung sector where I work are women we are working with Oversies Filipinos and yung special focus ng NGO namin are migrant women and sa Pilipinas taon-taon we are nagpapalabas tayo ng 500,000 1 million of Oversies Filipinos kalahati yung women and kalahati yung mga women pinalabas natin most of them are domestic workers and yung ano dito I have been witness doon sa mga challenges ng buhay nila they work with Oversies Filipinos parang marami silang pera but unfortunately a lot of them despite years long years of work abroad hindi nagiging totoo yun they don't achieve their dreams especially migrant domestic workers atandami kung nakita, umue matanda may sakit after working for 30 years abroad uwi silang matanda, may sakit wala pa rin savings yung reason kung bakit yung organization namin has been working with with Oversies Filipinos kasi ang ginagawa namin we provide financial education and we link them to cooperatives para makapagsave sila habang nandun sila nagbibigay din kami ng training on starting business social entrepreneurship para sa ganun ay pag-uwi nila, meron talaga silang babalikan we are very happy na sabi nga nilas mabuti nalang dumating yung program namin because now marami nang umue na they are running successful business, meron din kami minementor ng mga cooperatives in fact partner namin si Bai dun sa isang cooperative na tinodungan namin kasi coffee shop siya, maraming din na namin si Bai sa Singapore and ang daming gusto mag-replicate ng model niya so sabi ni Bai maybe you should form a cooperative who are into coffee shop business and we are doing that, we are doing social franchising will helping them do the social franchising for coffee shops and I think yun yung isang partner ship impotante yun, yun yung nakita ko I think yun yung need for us social entrepreneurs and social enterprises to partner with each other kasi we are bringing yung strength ng bawat isa I heard this, sinabi niya partner niya si Dr. Alip and I think marami tayong matututunan sa isa at isa kasi alam ko na yung mga story yun but every time I listen to them na papawaw pa rin ako talaga kailangan natin paramihin pa ito and how I wish ito mga taong ko I don't want running hour yung mga MSN is natin ay makita talaga natin yung mga outcome nila, talagang measurable and talagang nakakatulong dung sa mga mahihirap ngayong COVID-19 ano ba yung ginagawa namin affected na affected yung sector namin mga WFW as of early March mga 570,000 na yung umuwe garing sa labas ng bansa and even yung mga minementor namin social enterprises wala nagsara yung nilang service nila so marami sa mga coffee shops nagsara but ang isang natutunan ko at ito yung shini share namin sa mga training namin whenever there is a crisis there are always opportunities so slowly they are building back better and I think na sa partnership natin lahat mga sa ganon ay matulungan natin lahat yung mga mga group and organizations that we are supporting through our advocacy at social entrepreneurship. Maraming salamat. Maraming salamat May and I think we can go to the third reactor para naman makapundatay sa open forum because excited na tayong kwento 100 so let me now introduce Mr. Norby Salonga is the director of the Lasallian Social Enterprise for Economic Development Center a multi-awarded initiative that he helped develop since 2015 he teaches social innovation social entrepreneurship and sustainable business as a faculty member of the decision sciences and innovation of the de lasall university so meron tayo kainin nang narinig tungkol sa graduate marami sa atin UP graduates including myself pero ngayon naman meron tayong stakeholder na galing sa de lasall university take it away Norby. Thank you Dr. Lisa and Dr. Grace and thank you for this opportunity thank you for having me siguro I'd like to put emphasis that in our country there are many unique characteristics that social enterprises possess but I'd like to highlight number one is inclusive ownership structure which emphasizes the inclusion of community members in the ownership structure of the social enterprise models as co-owners not just as beneficiaries, laborers or suppliers of the social enterprises these community members are given the opportunity to actually take on leadership roles or even develop their own social enterprise or community development project second is the quality participation so we value the quality of participation of our community members in building these social enterprises napakahalaga punon sa ganoong paraan pa nating masisiguro na bibigan ng pagkakataon na mag-participate yung mga community members natin para planuhin yung pagboon na mga social enterprises at sa ganoong paraan din pa natin mabibigan sa lang ng opportunity nang mas malawak na pananagutan sa pagpapalakas na mga social enterprises na nabuo nila so yung quality participation po yung pangalawa and then third is yung valuation of non-monetary contributions such as skills, talents and of course capabilities natuturan ko po sa CUPCSWCD I think sikali to po yung nagtur sa amen ito na sa community development we have to find where the people are and build from what they have kailangan po natin alamin kung saan nag-mumula yung sakit kung saan nag-simula yung mga problema no mga taot alamin din natin ko ng mga kalakasa nila para sa pagboon natin na mga social enterprises kasama sa nila sa proseso hindi sa nila naiiwan sa proseso ng papaplano nabibigan sa nila ng pagkakataong magsarita nabibigan sa nila ng pagkakataong mag-decision para sa kanila mga sarili at bumuo na mga plano na tutulong para matugunan yung kanilang mga pangailangan at marasul ba rin po yung mga problema na mayroon sa komoridad napakakritikal po na ma-highlight natin yung sa pagkat sa Pilipinas ito po yung mga models o ito yung mga key elements napresents sa mga social enterprises na mayroon po tayo kagaya na po nung kanila nabangget yung mga kooperativa microfinance institutions which are considered banks of the poor like CART MRI yung mga fair trade organizations that basically work with different sectors in improving the quality of their products and of course, new generation social enterprises kagaya ng rags to reaches The successful models of social enterprise in the country are actually clear manifestations that the sector is growing However, we also believe that in order to sustain this growth we need an enabling ecosystem that will support these social enterprises kaya po napaka-importante na ma-supportahan po natin at maipasa po natin poverty reduction through social entrepreneurship bill. Kanina nga binigyan ng Lino ng Dr. Lisa ano ba yung social entrepreneurship at kung paano makakatulong yung pagpasa ng present bill para sa pagpapalakas at pagbibigay ng support sa mga social enterprises kasi sila yung mga organization nakaraniwang nakitipag trabaho sa mga nasalailayan lipunan. So hini lamang sila nariyan para kumita lamang nariyan sila para tulungan nabumangon yung mga nasalailayan lipunan at mabigyan sila na pagkakataon na magkaroon ang mas maayos na access sa mga social services that they deserve. Sa lasal po kung saan ako parteno yung tinatawag namin na lasalyan social enterprise for economic development center we acknowledge the pivotal role of social enterprises in addressing and of course in nation building. Through ELCID Center we promote, we provide formation programs to our students in our curricular and co-curricular efforts by allowing them to work with community members. So hini lang po namin tinuturu ang yung estudyante na matutunan yung mga subjects kagay ng social entrepreneurship, social innovation or sustainable business sa oblamang ng classroom. Bagus mibigyan din po namin sila na pagkakataon na lumabas, makipag partners sa mga community upang makabuo na mga social enterprises. We value diversity and inclusion in all of our efforts in ensuring that as an institution, we promote and localize the United Nations SDG. So yung SDG po, ang naging tungtungan at pangunahing tungtungan po na namin pamantasan upang masiguro ng impact na mga institution and through this we were able to develop over 46 social enterprises by work with 300 social entrepreneurs involving over a thousand students through our curricular and co-curricular efforts. As a community development graduate of UP and as a development practitioner working in the sector for almost 10 years now made me realize the critical role of social entrepreneurship in poverty reduction and of course informing and guiding the key stakeholders of our society. It has enabled me to observe closely the enablers and barriers of social enterprises especially in the absence of a law and limited support of government. And this is one of the reasons why we have to support the present bill and social enterprises such as Rugs to Riches, Card MRI and Bote Central. I personally believe that by pursuing social entrepreneurship we are not doing the present problems but we are also building a future that is more inclusive and sustainable. So, maraming salamat po ulit sa pagkakatao niyo ito at saana po may pagpatuloy po natin ang mahalagang mission na mayroon tayo na isulong ang social entrepreneurship upang mas maitaas ang buhay ng mga tao sa laylai ng ripunan. Maraming salamat po. Okay, maraming salamat Norby. Iba talaga yung sa UOP kung saan man makarating hindi na kakalimutan ng pinanggalingan at nababahaginan ng plastic nationalism and patriotism ang institution kung saan tayo na po punta. Hakaingin kayo, layo na napunta yung salasan. Congratulation sa yung mohan. Thank you, Dr. Grace. So Grace, baka po pwede tayong magsibula na doon sa pero bago yun, gusto mo bang basahin kung sino yung mga nanbito sa ating shout out mo na kung saan galing yung mga iba-tibang participants. Ikaw ang gumawanon. Okay, ay gawin ko. Baka may baka may makalimutan pero pero hindi intactin natin ng president ng UOP, sabi niya darating siya kung hindi natin ko, kwento ko na lang Sige, sige Grace, pero meron mo tayong mga participants galing sa Los Angeles, Vancouver, Stockholm, California, Dubai, UAE, at dito sa Pilipinas, meron tayo sa Binyan, Sa Davao, Cebu, Ilocosur, Nueva Ecija, Pasig, Batangas, Antipolo, Canlubang, Kavite at marangin pang ibang lugar. Yun lang yun na write down kung binabasa po yung... Hindi nangabang mahaban ay na write down ko. Marami, salamat po sa inyong lahat. Sige, so... Kali-gubay sa talaka yan. Sige, siguro Grace, bilang unang mga set of questions, nabanggit ni Norby, yung poverty reduction through social entrepreneurship bill. At gusto kung i-relate dito dun sa set of questions galing kay Rainier dito Sindayan, na marami sa kanyang mga tanong ay tungkol sa suporta ng gobierno sa Micro Small and Medium Enterprises. Pero dahil ito ay hindi nabanggit na nga ni Norby na iba ang mga social enterprises sa ordinary Micro Small and Medium Enterprises, iba din yung kailangan na suporta from Micro Small and Medium Enterprises. And to siguro to begin the question, the open forum, may I request the members of the poverty reduction through social entrepreneurship coalition from among our panelists to actually give us some idea about why they support the present bill. Kasi wala naman tayong palakay ang tungkol sa poverty reduction through social entrepreneurship coalition nabanggit lang ni Norby. Pero there's a big number of you. Actually, Si Vai, si Earl, si Anot, si of course Norby. Also, card MRI is actually part, but si Julius Alit ang umuupo sa poverty reduction through social entrepreneurship coalition. At one stage, si Mark Ruiz, yung better half ni Reese, yung umuupo sa poverty reduction through social entrepreneurship coalition. And of course, Mai is also part of it. So any among, I mean, may I ask some of you to, also Earl, may I ask some of you to express your reasons why you support the poverty reduction through social entrepreneurship coalition, which is actually a way of explaining what the bill is all about. Kasi nabanggit na yung support, pero hindi masyado nabanggit ang ano ba yung features and enabling policy to support social enterprises. So nag-erase ng Hansi Byte. Yeah. Thank you Lisa. Mike Lee lang. Why not support present bill? Because it is the right thing to do. Present bill, bakit ba present bill? Because see, we need an enabling environment, especially from, as a stage, sa anong stage na ba tayo din sa bill natin? Pake-discuss din. Kung meron tayo mga groupong pwede yung tumulong na naiusad sa Congress, yanan po ang ginagawa ko ngayong utulungangin natin. Bakit Earl, gusto mong sumama dun sa pagsplain kung saan na tayong stage? Sa kasi Gomer Padong, actually from the poverty reduction to social entrepreneurship coalition secretariat is here. He's not in the panel, but you might want to explain the level of discussion kasi tinanong ni Dr. Grace. May mga committee, may mga discussion na sa committee ngayon at both sa lower house at saka sa Senate, ano no, mga respective committees dila, pero marami pa rin questions as all laws have to pass this scrutiny not just of Congress, but the various agencies of the government, yung mo sa pinang taxation related doon sa mga social enterprises, yung mga incentives na ibebe guys sa trade, et cetera. May mga nag-quick question dito na mga agencies such as the BIR. At di ba pa, including setting up of social enterprise development, how do you call that doon sa BIR? Isang agency that will focus on developing social enterprises kumangaganyan yung nasa level ng ganyang discussion. Hopefully, bago mag-end yung Congress, malapit na ang election, may papasal na rin dito dahil ilang Congress na actually ang nagdaan. At di palaging nagbabak to square one every after-elect once. Ilang po siguro tayong pag-usap sa mga relevant participals sa Congress. Sige, any other any other inputs from our panelists, siguro po kwedeng si May? May. Nakikita kasi natin na may need talaga for support. Yung atika kasi isa sa mga ginagawa namin. We form a working group at the regional level. Kung saan nakaupo dyan, ang DA, DTI, meron kami technical working group on my green line development. And never did we discuss yung support for social entrepreneurship. Kaya when we were discussing yung present bill sabi ko it's really high time that we bring the different enterprises sa lipunan at ang co-support that should be given to social enterprises. Kasi ang lakinong role ang lakinong atulong kapag social enterprises yung ating finiform, lalo na sa poverty alleviation and ibadin yung pangaylangan as you mentioned. So I think we really work, we have to work together at actors at kung siyong pwede mag-push na itong bill na ito. Because kailangan talaga siya. Anybody else? Meron tayong tanong dito makawa si Dr. Ariths Alip makasagot. His question is to Fred Lubang. Thank you for sharing the transformative aspect of engaging local communities. More on how you transform the patronage system. Ramdam mo ang systeman na ito lalo na kapagbabadka sa mga communities lalo na sa mga conflict areas. Maraming salamat ko. Dr. Alip. Gusto ko rin mag comment loong sa mga suporta. Sa sagutin ko yung kay Fred na nais ko lang magbigay ng inputs. Ano ba yung mga appropriate bilang ang sang practitioner in the field of poverty alleviation? Unang-unang meron na tayong Microfinance Act, NGO Microfinance Act na napapasa namin during the Aquino Time at ito maganda naman pinatutupad ng ating government ngayon. 2% tax na lang. All about taxes. Yung lang ang binabayad ng NGO Microfinance. Kaya lang may naririnig kami na gusto bawiing at nga lalong pala kasi natin at pwede pa natin ikabit yung mga social enterprises. Kasi tulad ang bahawa ng kila-rease yung kilabay, these are social enterprises. Pati yung sakade marain, di lang ng Microfinance at Microinsurance ang gina-tawa niya. Merong kaming sa marketing kasi dumibili ka dun sa mga may hirap hahanapang ng receibo ng PIR. So dapat siguro, dapat kailangan pageralang mabutay kung talagang gusto at sutuhan yung pagtulong sa mga may hirap. So ito yung mga napakalaking. These are quick wins. Ikalwa, pagusapan natin itong tinatawag natin Insurance. Yung insurance napakahalagan nyan. Whether this is social enterprise or being poor pang access ng insurance. At nating life insurance ang premium tax nyan ay 2% anong ibig sabihin ito? Pag ang premium ang alimbawa bumili ka ng insurance 100 pesos automatically 2% of 100 pesos that means 2 pesos, po punta na yan sa Kabananggubyan. That's a tax, premium tax. Non-life insurance Magkano ng non-life insurance premium tax natin dito sa Pilipinas umahabot ng 27% kada isanda ang piso magbabayit ka sa insurance premium mo 27 centimos po punta na kaagad sa Kabananggubyan. Versus life and non-life. Anong ibig sabihin ng non-life? Ang non-life insurance napakahalaga kasi pag kamay disaster at non-life yan. Housing insurance, non-life yan. Ang tinatawog natin in the climate change. Agricultural, climate change insurance non-life yan. Napakamahal niyan. Papanong may encourage sa private sector naipus ang micro insurance pag dati sa non-life? Pag usapan natin ng pandemic ang health insurance non-life yan. Big yan di inyan. Kung may batas na kayong gusto ang ipatupad isa na ma-isamanin yan di isa Professor Grace. Kasi these are simple things na nakakaapekto papasok ang private sector. Card has proven nung naiba ba ang 2% tax ng life insurance 27 million at ang laki pa ng ipinasok na premium tax sa sa gubyano. Kasi insurance is a low of volume. So yung mga simple lang yan. Pag usapan din naman natin ang tinatawog natin ito na pa simple lang yung FDA. You talk about SME. Alam nyo, yung SME pagkaikaw ay isang magsasaka gusto mo magtinda ng cafe. Yung sinasabi nibay cafe. Kami naman din, na nag-gumawa na ng cafe pero pag isang parme nag-produce ng cafe at pinacage hindi niya may papasok sa supermarket kasi hahanapan ng FDA permit. It takes 1 year, 3 years bago kumakakuhan ng permit sa FDA kasi concentrated doon sa National Office anong ginagawa ng Thailand ng Indonesia. Anong ginagawa ng Malaysia? It just takes them one month. Thailand ganyan lang kasi din centralize sa mga universities at colleges yung pagpapakredit at pagkuhan ng permit. Ang dami natin sa UP, ang ganda ng ating facility Professor Grace, Professor Lisa, these are little wins at the stroke of a pen na hindi ka na kailangan pumunta sa Kongreso. Kailangan ang kausapin ng FDA na ibabha yung mga permit na yan. Ang kagaya nito ang sarap ng si Charoong Kalabaw sa kagayaan Bali napakasarap pero hindi makapasok sa mercado kasi yung si Charoong na yong kailangan pumunta pa sa Manila pumunta pa sa FDA ay magtatrabil yung magsasaka kawa-awa so kung yan ay decentralize sa isang university public university sa ating ay napakadali niyan so kaya ang Thailand wag na natin kainggitan kasi may problema tayo sa mga ganyan. Gusto kung marami pa kung gusto sabihin but I can mention that. Marami pati yung sa BIA ay yung pagpapail ng income tax pati yung paglereport ng mga monthly income tax monthly FAS E-S-M-E-Yang monthly baka huwama yung sa submit mo susmari yung set pwede na mong six months na lang napakadaming recutitas at a stroke pa pen circular lang yan hindi mo na kailangan dumaas sa congreso na baligang ko yung kai pred gusto ko yung tanong ni pred kanina ko pang gusto sabating yung kai pred yung transformative versus transaksional isa yung sa concept na pinag-usapan natin transaksional very political ito yung tinatawag natin patronage. Ang concept ko talaga kaya kung tinayo ang card ay transformative ano ang ibig sabihin ng transformative sa akin bakit gusto kung magtayo ng banko na ang magmamayari may hirap kasi gusto ko ang transformational ang mayari ng banko ay mga may hirap na how do we do this trapping the savings convert it to equity to me that is what empowerment is all about sa akin the issue on poverty is not only access it is control of resources sabi ng who has the gold controls e kong ito gay mo yung gold na yan this is an ancient Chinese saying he who controls the gold controls so ibigay mo yung ownership sa mga tao ibigay mo so they can control their policy so card is all about yan that is what I have learned in UP challenge the existing paradigm challenge the conventional banking wisdom that's why I turned the banking wisdom upside down when they require for collateral I don't require ang pinag-aralang ko ang cash flow analysis tinapong ko lahat yan I'm an agricultural economist tinapong ko lahat yan kasi magpapautang ka ng 5,000 3,000 hihingan mo ba naman ang cash flow analysis isa lang documentong kailangan mo pagkagan yan yung nang transformational transformational meron ko yung nakuhasa pagsusaditani sir Ali circular lang yan baka hindi kailangan dumaan ng congress o sinan yan maybe pagusapan natin yan kasi tuto din naman maraming mga bagay nakapagdinahan mo sa dalawang of course you need policy let me just give my political science sense here baka kailangan pagusapan na baka ibang forma para makalusot na Dr. Grace matagal ng pinag-debatihan ng poverty reduction social education condition kasi akong ayong convenor since 2012 pero tuto naman I think I agree with you and Dr. Aries yung maraming mga reforms na pwedeng gawin yung pamantasan at ibang ahensyan ng gobierno para maging mga accessible pero kaya yung poverty reduction through social entrepreneurship coalition ay nagpupush ng poverty reduction through social entrepreneurship bill kasi may mga ilang provisions that you cannot do without the change in laws so halimbawa yung recognition ng social enterprises hindi recognized kasi ang social enterprises as entities separate from micro small and medium enterprises at kung magusap ka ng mga loans lahat ng loans, collateralized ang loans sa banks except for the card banks doon sa loob ng private and public institutions na banks, talagang collateralized ang loans at ang hini-hini doon sa poverty reduction through social entrepreneurship bill ay mga non-polateralized loans with a guarantee fund pool at saka yung social enterprises dahil iba sila micro small and medium enterprises kailangan din nila ng kaibang suporta gaya ng hybrid financing ang hybrid financing is a combination of grants and enterprise financing like loans so parang mahabang usapin yan pero parang baka we can have baka we can have baka usapan din maybe baka po pwede nating puntahan yung isapang tanong you did mention of the challenges encountered while starting your organization is rags to riches open to subcontracting with other struggling social entrepreneurs and then connected din it to doon sa Sabini Clark how do you tie marketing sales of local products with famous brands? how do you address that? baka risk pwede mo you can come in to answer those questions Rees I think she begged off a while ago I think I saw okay hindi wala na siya parang nabeg of siya sandali let's entertain another okay baka at this point in time pinagusapin natin yung poverty there's Rees did you hear the question Rees I did not sorry I just came back from the call sorry go ahead you mentioned of the challenges encountered while starting your organization is rags to riches open for subcontracting other struggling social entrepreneurs and para sa marketing how do you tie marketing sales of local products to famous brands no how do you address this maybe what's your experience in rags to riches so maybe the first question about subcontracting to struggling social enterprises we try our best to involve as many people as possible in the supply chain because we know it's hard so self reliance isn't really a thing it has to be consistent intervention lalo na if it's when it comes to market and marketing so there's really no such thing as you connect the artisans to market and then tapos ka na umalis ka na jyan you have to do the work over and over again until it becomes an ecosystem so for us we try but we also couldn't promise because we have to make sure that we are also sustainable that we can support our own artisans first and make sure that they have reliable livelihood because honestly the most reliable livelihood is just really consistent as in predictable siya dapat for the artisan so that they can rely on it so we try but it's not something that we're always doing because we're also still trying to make sure that the time of our artisans are puno, mapupuno na livelihood kasi mahalaga yun eh ang hirap na magbibigay ka lang ng one hour of livelihood a week so kailangan every single day meron siya so imagine that so if you have an enterprise and you think it could fit with what we do you could just email us and we'll see if the materials that you make are a good fit for us and when we need additional manpower or support we also tap other social enterprises and then the other question is about marketing ba? Yeah, marketing related to tying up with famous brands because I think na rinig nyan you're tied up with IK ya, di ba? Actually Ikea was four years in the making so when they started like scouting in the Philippines we were one of the ones that they approached and then we started our discussion but it took about two years of duty before we got the contract so we've learned about Ikea as our partner nalaman namin yun mga two years ago so last year lang namin siya na announce but it's like mahaba yung processo niya so that's why I really believe in models of collaboration to collaborate with community artisans you work together and you work together for the long term talagang skin in the game so that everybody can really move forward in a sustainable way so that's the key for our Ikea partnership is that there's constant communication with Ikea, there's compliance also for all of the documents that they would need and then there's communication with our artisans at the same time training and everything else that comes with it so ang dami but it's part of what we do so the way to work with bigger brands is to do it consistently because they already have systems and structures so kailangan professionalize then when you approach them that's why you'd need intermediary organizations also like rags to riches may nakita ka bang bagong tanong Grace or would you want me to go to the other may questions pa kasi na nandun din sa Q&A and we might find meron kasing question kaya Goran Toma Cruz, sabi niya maybe we can ask Earl and Vi are there external hurdles that exist that slow down your supply chains but can easily be resolved with good governance ano take mo doon Vi for example sa usapin na supply chain ng coffee kasing supply chain at good governance as far as my experience is concerned it is my duty and my commitment to inform the different stakeholders in the coffee industry and number one is the government number one being the biggest potential buyer or actor as a stakeholder filang kung makonvince ang government to understand what we are doing as a social entrepreneur or within the system of social enterprise because if I am not able to do it it will really be a challenge for me to go up or to go where I want to go dahil ano sile and enabling environment ang government if private sector I know there is support coming from private sector but it's a different thing when government comes in it's a different ball game altogether that's why it is very important that we pass the present bill as well dahil if there is no policy or mechanism to support and implement in favor of social entrepreneurship poverty elevation as one comment was mentioned a while ago dito sa question and answer it will really be just a far dream from my experience one family one community at a time I think it's already one way of saying no but this is what we should do I am not a yes person I am basically not a yes person I always see the no part but when seeing no part is not the end of it when you say no we should always be able to answer why the why is very important and the how how we should do it actually when you take a look at the way your social enterprises from Dr. Alep to the discussion panang talagang wala na magibang way to go to poverty elevation social entrepreneurship but what usually are the if I may ask this question but before this congratulations for the way you related this to academic freedom at meron kayong mga personal testimonies of why this passion is in your heart about doing good and doing this for our people but what are the issues usually leveled against social enterprises are social enterprises are there criticisms leveled against them yours are models they are good but why is the bill seemingly difficult to pass baka pwedeng would you like to answer that I just want to say I'll answer that through an experience na meron na po we were meeting this was a long time ago we were meeting sa OPAP office of the presidential advisor on the peace process napos dahil nagahalap na sila ng community engagement for development to have peace development for peace so pre-nepresented yung model ng alter trade may isang kilalang economies doon saabi niya hindi yan mag work dahil alternative lang kayong malili it yan so ang gusto niya we engage with big companies as suppliers only as I was pushing na hindi lang dapat suppliers yung primary producers kundi yung sa value chain tapat mag-dodominate sila sa iba pa ang parte ng value chain and yet sa big account sa traditional economies point of view para sa tingin nila hindi yan mag work dahil malili it yan nag-work yan para namin if you're going to replicate it a thousand times a million times I think masusod natin ng problem the motor that will transform so siya so it's a paradigmatic shift in the political economy and the way of looking at economic development yes ang mga siguro ang mga universities natin ang mga academic institutions yan ang pinuturo para mijin ang mga nagtutungin gaya ng mga institution nila at sa kadoon atin ayon may absence atin ayo sa lasal ito yung dapat ituro salamat there's actually another question for you about how do you transform farmer workers to farmer entrepreneurs I'm interested to learn how you do it because farmer workers do not have their own land especially in haciendas can you just explain that quickly please pero marami naman kasi sa through the agrarian reform program mas doon kami tumutulong sa mga farmers para magkaroon ng land pero ang challenge actually transforming farmers into entrepreneurs ano yan hindi lang pwede yung sa discussion hindi lang pwede sa awards kundi you create an environment na makikita nila how entrepreneurship is done no? from primary production to processing to marketing financial management operations management marketing management Miss Grace mukhang ano eh marami pang pwedeng tanong pero baka deka meron isang tanong na magandang sabutin dito kabe for dr. Alep thinking outside the box can this meeting adopt an action item reach out to FDA to decentralize and facilitate the issuance of local products certification ano po ang sa inyo doon comment dr. Alep, mayo na hindi napakaganda niyan because this will really this will be at a balance of opportunity para sa ating mga yung mga coffee grower kilaris na binagawa even yung sinasabi kung kung sa mga muskubado in fact we're doing muskubado yung aking coming back to transformation sa akin yung company to become to make the farmers entrepreneurial bakta yung ka ng company composed of social entrepreneurs bakta yung mga farmers pagsamayin mo sila at the ownership at a later time will be substantially owned by the farmers tutulungan mo sila kasi marketing is the biggest link now in UP marketing is quite an easy course but very difficult to excel very difficult to implement and dali na mga churis pero pag-inimplement mo na mahirap kaya kailangan mo talaga skills so I have a strong belief na yung micro entrepreneurs mga farmers can really become entrepreneurs farmer entrepreneurs pero sama ako doon kung gusto nyo tayo tayo na kumiti para doon sa FDA kasi hindi kailangan yung nang congress kailangan lang yung kutapin ang kasi nasa batas na yan ididisentralize mo lang yan siguro tutulungan tayo ni Grace Hamon na isetap yung UP Center for Social Entrepreneurship para magawa natin yan Grace Actually if I have a story to say nyo dahil mahal natin ng UP sa tutulang sa Clark kaya tayo pinukuhad dito mag-moderate kasi may sinubukan tayong mga projects doon na maganda naman dahil na niniwala sa social entrepreneurship itong si Michael Tan tapos dumating si Danny Concepcion na sinalo yung proyekto gusto maging CSR mamuti siguro gami natin laboratory sa pag-iisip ng makaparaanan doon sa center na yung mga policy approaches and advocacy to make these things happen for social entrepreneurs so ayapong as sinasabi ko lang na may support tapos si Danny Concepcion dito so we will eventually have an executive order is the moment for a center for social entrepreneurship sana palakpakan yun palakpakan yun palakpakan yun ayok po lahat lahat ng UP alumni kasama kag-grace na nating anyway it's for only 20 minutes still call time medyo kailangan na natin and yung ating open forum we promise that the other questions that were not answered in the chat box as well as in the Q&A will be answered to you through e-mail if we could actually trace you but at this point in time baka pwede natin tawagin si Lauren Bustos yung secretariat ng poverty reduction through social entrepreneurship coalition nag-request po sila ng 1 minute 2 minutes para invite yung mga participants dito sa ating forum Lauren Bustos are you there? Yes Here po Dr. Lisa Go ahead Thanks very much Thank you very much Dr. Lisa and Dr. Gray So Hello po Good after everyone So ako po si Lauren Bustos from the poverty reductions through social entrepreneurship coalition or we can call as present coalition So as part po of our fight we are currently running a campaign to gather 1 million signatures by June 2021 to urge the Congress Senate and also President Duterte to pass the poverty reduction through social entrepreneurship bill or as we call the present bill So to share po the platform is going to be via change.org and I will be sharing in the chat box the link to the petition So you may visit the website at www.change.org slash pass the present bill now So I will put it in the chat box right now Okay So thank you Lauren Is that all? So please we invite everybody invite your families your friends and your colleagues to also sign the petitions So we support innovative and peaceful pathways to end poverty So let's pass the present bill now Thank you Thank you Thank you Lauren and I think si Norby yung lasalyan na may forum yung lasalyan yung seed L-Seed na tumpo sa poverty reduction through social entrepreneurship bill that was actually it's posted in their website in the official Facebook page of the L-Seed website Yes and we would urge everybody na you want to learn about the present bill to go there in the website of L-Seed Thanks for watching But at the same time gusto din namin na pag-aralan mi nyo yung various bills of the poverty reduction through social entrepreneurship bill na nakafile sa senate at saka sa lower house They're actually available online So google nyo lang yung senate bills at saka yung house bills So Grace gusto mo bang invitahin na yung mga panelists at saka mga reactors for their last parting shots? O po dapat may mga last words kayo na hindi nila makalimutan although lahat nang sinabi nyo inspiring talaga Sa totoo lang I was personally inspired by your stories this is the first time I'm hearing all of you I've heard so many testimonies already but thank you So last words po from our panelists mag-upisak tayo sa unang panelists of course kay Dr. Alit down the line Well Card MRI is in the business of poverty eradication Hindi kami titigil hangkat hindi na tapos ang kairapan dito sa Pilipinas and we're so simply saying this we want to eradicate this poverty in the Pilipinas and finally I really like to thank you Pete my professors especially I'm a graduate UPLB it gave me a very good opportunity for academic freedom and I'm also an adjunct professor and I'm giving back and I'm happy that UP also adapted yung microfinance as part of the curriculum Tampo lang ako sa UP di liman because when I was awarded the UP alumnos highest award in 2007 sabi magkakameron din ang curriculum ang UP di liman on microfinance hangga na hindi intake ko pa ang UP losbanyos adapted it in fact meron kami card MRI executive scholarship program a professional chair sana mapusden yung microfinance course yan sa UP di liman but I'm very thankful it provides a new economic academic opportunity I am now my success and the way I am now that I have become it's because of UP maraming salam yay yay ok, seris na mal maraming salamat po sa pag-invita sa akin ngayong araw so kahit kapit bahay tayo maraming salamat sa pag welcome sa akin sa UP pangarap ko din mag-import ng UP so dito na lang ako bumawit 13 years after graduation so thank you art na part ka na thank you po, salamat maraming salamat po so siguro bilang panghule gusto ko i-share na isa sa mga mga paborito kong stories sa art to art sa ming trabawa sa rags to riches yung mga stories sa transformation and when given opportunities through art to art many of our artisans open their worlds to possibilities beyond poverty so lagi ako na inspire lagi ako na humble kapag naringlindig ko na yung mga anak nila hindi na lumalakin na yung mga pangarap kasi poverty no longer feels like destiny so they continue to inspire me but at the same time I also hear like so many problems coming up and when I go to conferences and forums like this I hear the same things and means na lang kung nakakapagod na parang ano ba yan dekadekada na tayo sa poverty eradication ang dito pa rin yung poverty yung ina eradicate natin but I hope kong asan lang ano kong asan man lang please but I hope we don't get tired po kasi it's true that it takes time and shifts in culture systems and generations to truly see lasting transformation so we are really here merely planting the seeds nagtatanin pa lang tayo hindi nang sa manan loob pero na mga positive impact sana so second kailangan din nating maintindihan na this work is really beyond us the success of the future these are things that we'll probably won't see anymore so to end I'd like to share one of my favorite lines from the musical Hamilton kung may alam sa Hamilton dito I'm sure merong isan line doon I may not live to see our glory but I would gladly join the fight and I think and I think this sums up everything that we've been doing itang tagayupi, ateneo, tagalasal kung saan saan kama nang galing we may not live to see our glory but we are all in this in the fight together beautiful beautiful sige baka naman pwede na si Bite? yeah yes yes of course parting words ko eto pung pandemic has brought a lot of online selling of coffee and ang kalaban po namin ngayon is imported coffee na nagpapos as local coffee being labeled and sold as local coffee this is really very not good not good at all so tuloy ang laban sabi nga sa UP laban laban tayo fight kaya please be mindful when you drink coffee or be sure that you're drinking Filipino coffee be discerning because there are a lot of telltale signs that it is not that it's not local coffee just be sure that when you drink your cup of coffee kilala ko ba yung nagtanin ng kape na to kilala ko ba kung siyong nagproseso na to dahil kung hindi ko kilala ay hindi ko iinlumin nyan meron pung comment kanina dito na anong Starbucks I have nothing against Starbucks sa business but please let us support by drink Filipino coffee ayas nabasa nyo ba bye Filipino coffee okay so baka pwede naman tayo kay Earl yah, salamat sa lahat gusto ko lang baka saan yung talk by telling you this story ng 2004 may na-meet ako sa office namin sa Alpertrade Foundation isang man lang, during that time wala pa silang bank accounts dahil ka o open katatapos lang para ang contract namin with them pero nagkaroon sila 62 years old na to siya, former sa kada during that year 2004 nagkaroon sila ng 80,000 na pesos na dividend nung binibigay ng staff namin sa kanya yung 80,000 na nginginig siya at gusto niyang ibalik dahil sabi niya anong gagawin ko dito sa tanang buhay ko 62 years old na siya dalawang piso lang ang nahawakan niya para pero ngayon fast forward ang mga ito at mga pamilya niya at sa ka-communidad niya ay kung pumupasok ng banko rural bankito doon sa La Castigliana ang manager mismo ang tumatayo bakit million-million ang deposit ng organization nila nakakapag-pag-graduate na sila ang mga anak nila may mga tagdadalawang traktora at mga track-de-carga na sila so ganon ang social entrepreneurship talagang nakakalibay ng situasyon lang mga mahihirap na atin sa pangunita. Thank you. Grace, baka gusto mo tawagin yung ating remaining panelists? Maybe? Susunon. Pansalo kung na e-enamor sa mga sinasabi nilahin. Si May na lang. May, would you like to come in? Canapin yung pakinggan po Anakong nag-free siya at si May. Maybe while waiting for May we can ask Norby. So only po maraming, salamat po ulit sa pagkakataon na ibedigingin sa Amin upang magbahagi na Ami mga akaranasan. I remember nung unakon nag-launch ng isang social enterprise I had to, I think spend maybe 20 to 30 minutes explaining what social entrepreneurship is. Kung magapadang before siguro mga walong taon na nakakaraan, ang usapan is ano ba yung ginagawa mo and kailangan mo ipaliwanag ng mabusisi ano ba yung social entrepreneurship. Ngayon, when you tell people that you're doing social entrepreneurship hindi na ano yung tanong nila. Ang tanong nila paano. Because they have started to realize na malaki at maganda yung naiyaambag ng social entrepreneurship. Hindi lamang sa papapalago na kabuhaya na mga kundimismong sa pagsiguro na yung mga nabagit niris kanina yung talento, yung kapasidad, yung kakayanan ng mga taos sa community ay naiyaangat. And I think yung pinakamaganda at pinakamakabuluhan na contribution of social entrepreneurship or of social enterprise sector sa Pilipinas. Alam ko napaka hirap po, hindi siya madali, napaka hirap at napaka daming pagsubok na nangsektor, lalo na ngayon na may pandemic pero na niniwala pa rin po ako nako ipagpapatulay po natin itong nasimula natin ang maganda later on magbubunga rin po yung mga pinagpagura natin. So yun nga po ipagpatuloy lang po natin yung papalakas ng social enterprise sector sa Pilipinas at kumagakasamat po tayo magagawa at magagawan po natin ang maganda o magbubunga po ng maganda yung pinagpagura maraming salamat po. Thank you Norby. May na yung last reactor for last parting words. May? Apologies kasi nakakaproblemo yung internet connection ko but I would like to take this opportunity to thank UP and present coalition for organizing this and mayro lang ako mga nakitang questions ng OFW na nakikinig sa atin sabi nila how can they participate in supporting social enterprises and I think isayon sa pwedeng tingnan ng present coalition ang laki ng pwedeng iambag ng OFW para a push isupport yung social enterprises kasi malaki din yung may tutulong na mga social enterprise nakakakaroon ng social enterprises to uplift yung situation ng ating OFW na umu-uwi na dito sa atin for good. So with that thank you very much and sana ay pagtulong-tulongan natin sabi nga itaglimutan yung sinasat no-roce ng you kung sino ang kung na wala na si May may so maybe we have the last 5 minutes we are okay na May anyway so anyway I think we are nearing the last 5 minutes of our episode and maybe in terms of takeaways meron ko akong 4 na nakuhuhang take away from this discussion at yung isa ay yung iba-ibang mukha ng social enterprises nakita natin sa mga presentations at saka discussion that social enterprises comes in many forms and sizes at yung mga nag-isip dati na yung mga social enterprises ay yung mga pipichugin lang na nandun sa umunidad mga enterprises sana po na disabuse na yung ganong classic pag-isip because as you can see social enterprises includes microfinance institutions like card that are serving over 7 million nanais they come in the form of community coffe enterprises in more than 50 communities all over the Philippines they come in the form of enablers of artisan women and cross communities like drugs to riches that have already reached global acclaim and then they come in the form of mission-driven foundations empowering ARBs and other marginalized sectors like other trade foundation and NGOs that are engaging overseas Filipino workers to set up or to contribute to local community building yun yung unang maraming muka at maraming forms of social enterprises pangalawa napakahalaga yung role ng social enterprises pangharap sa pandemiyan we have seen so we hear so much on media about the role of our health workers we hear so much about the military way of controlling people so that they can actually be saved from the pandemic this very little chance for us talking about the heroes in terms of food security the heroes giving sustainable livelihoods to our struggling kababayans and I'm really happy that we had this opportunity to celebrate social entrepreneurs and their role in poverty reduction and nation building as well as in facing the pandemic thirdly, mahalaga po yung role ng akadim yung gaya nang sinabi maraming mga po at pwede nga win yung akademia and from the stories of the different social entrepreneurs you met today makikita nyo kung mahalaga yung academic freedom and how it's figured in shaping their destinies as social entrepreneurs and in social entrepreneurship and the university can really do a lot in terms of doing research, education and extension work in building a human resource compliment for the upscaling of social entrepreneurship in the Philippines and I'm a proud UP student and I'm really glad that I accommodated this session with Dr. Grace Hamon and she's the key person assigned by the UP president to actually explore the possibility of setting up a center for social entrepreneurship in UP lastly, napakahalaga yung enabling environment for social enterprises and that's the reason why we need to pass the poverty reduction through social entrepreneurship bill now and sinernapon ng poverty reduction through social entrepreneurship coalition sa inyo kung paano kayo makakatulong by signing the petition and as a last point I would just like to say that if bago yung anang sa beginning po ng this morning I shared in my Facebook post na parang ang sabi ko if only government could listen to yung research results of researchers like Lisa Bersales who was actually featured in the last episode of Usapang KP about the multi-stake the multi-dimensional nature of poverty para bang mas maingintindihan nila kung paano at bakit kailangan sa yung poverty reduction to social entrepreneurship bill now pero ang gusto ko after hearing this very insightful and very inspiring stories of our social entrepreneurs I would like to end by saying that if only government listen to what the icons of the social enterprise sectors have here have to say and shared as inspiring stories of poverty reduction and transformation they would be passing the poverty reduction through social entrepreneurship bill and they would be implementing a poverty reduction through social entrepreneurship program to enable the sector to recover from the pandemic and to play their role as accelerators of the sustainable development goals. Maraming salamat po and I don't know if grace is still around if I cannot see grace maybe I could ask DP Perna the vice president for public affairs of UP to give the closing remarks DP Perna Yes, I'm here can you see me? Yes? Okay, great. Magantang hapon Professor Grace, Dr. Lisa Dr. Alep Ms. Rees, Ms. V Ms. Mai, Sir Norby Earl at sa lahat ng ating mga kasama mga yung hapon Ang assignment ang assignment ko ngayon ay magbigay ng closing remarks at ito ay isang trabaho ngayong mabigat para sa akin. Ito na. The abrogation of the Department of National Defense by the Department of National Defense of its 1989 accord with the university thrust the subject of academic freedom into the larger public sphere. The false claims that former UP students who had joined the new people's army were killed or captured by the armed forces of the Philippines the red tagging of UP alumni by the AFP which were later acknowledged as an unpardonable gaff and for which the AFP profusely apologized only serve to intensify public discussion. The hashtag DefendUP brought together individuals groups, parties organizations to support the university to remain a safe space defined by academic freedom to study and engage in intellectual debate without fear of censorship or retaliation. This, all the better for us to serve the people. This was one rationale for putting together USAPAN KP as an ongoing conversation and online discussion to dive into the nuances of academic freedom and its significance to the life of the university. And here we are now we've had six episodes six wonderfully informative educational and engaging webinars where the resource persons and our hosts have been truly hane Walasti, pwede na din We've had our terrors, hindi terrorista Professors Emeriti our artist ka ng bayan ang mga bayaning manggagamot ang mga abogadot, service shop publico mga scientifico at panthas. At ngayon ang ating mga social entrepreneurs na nagbibigay kabuhayan para sa bayan. Once again congratulations sa lahat na nagbuhos ng talino, ng kanilang experience, ng kanilang napaka valuable na panahon at in some cases nilang pawis. At masasalamat sa ating mga kasamat kasabuat dito sa programang ito. Ang ating mga kasama mula sa UP Freedom Project kayo Maloo, Lisa, Dr. Carol, Dr. Lisa, Rafi, Milt, Elmer sinap Professor Emeritus Butch, Chancellor Fidel Professor Grace at paumanhin na sa aking mga hindi napangalan. Masasalamat din sa ating mga sumalit na nood sa ating webinar series sa mga alumni, estudiante, faculty, reps, staff ng UP ngayon at noong nakaraan ang aking mga kasama dito sa UP System. Sa Office of Alumni Relations sinap Professor Rika Direc Professor Emeritus Gigi. Sina Anya, Agnes, Mon, June at iba pa. Sa MPRO, Dr. Wendell, Arlene, Celeste at marami pang iba. Sa OVPPA, Sina Jamie and Dayan. Sa ITDC, Director Paolo and Noel. Mula sa puso, maraming-maraming salamat sa pagsama sa aming dito sa patuloy na paglaban para sa Academic Freedom. Sa ngayon, mag-re-recess muna ang usapang KP. Hindi paalam, re-cess lang po pag-aaralan at pag-u-usapan namin kung paano pa natin ang aayusin at i-improve ang seryeng dito. Sabi nga, you cannot put a good program down. Paano pa kaya kung gagandahan pa natin. Hindi ito pa paalam, re-cess lang, isang maganda at makagpalayang hapon sa ating lahay. Thank you very much. Dr. Grace? Hi. Dr. Grace, baka gusto mo nang e-end yung ating session? Thank you very much, BB Pernia. Paumanhin po, ang maganda kulitrato na lang kung bakit parang yung video ko ayaw na. Pero marami poong salamat sa inyong mga kwento, mga kwento naka-inspire at salamat isa po ako sa mga na-convert sa katutohana na talagang the way towards poverty alleviation is through social entrepreneurship. It is about time we examine the prevailing philosophy, economic philosophy that has dominated the world because of its development trajectory. To really think of inclusion of our people sa process of development. At marami salamat, I congratulate every one of you. Pati si Lisa na naging inspiration po sa akin. At yung mga lahat ng mga sa social entrepreneur program sa Clark na natuwa kami dahil sa kwento nila na narinig ni Danny Concepcion, nag-respond po si President Concepcion to level it up as our corporate social responsibility ng UP. Siinawang po ang susanot na maging head, siguro na maapile bahala ng universe and I'm sure makakabuti po ito. Marami po, salamat sa inyong lahat for this opportunity. Lisa, thank you. Thank you very much and I think that ends our episode today. Thank you very much to everyone for joining us and see you again in our next series sabi nga ni DP Pernia. This is not the end. We are just going to take a break. Thank you very much. Bye. We are just going to take a break.