How to celebrate? – Christmas in the Philippines
A colorfully decorated fir tree, snow on the roofs, contemplative music, the whole family at a beautifully decorated table and presents for young and old – that’s how Christmas looks like for most […]
Virtually Connected: First Webminar held in the Philippines
The Corona crisis is also driving the digitalization of our processes and activities at GMI and our partner organization Project Life. In addition to enabling online […]
Romagyn
| Place: | Baloy Beach, Olongapo City, Philippines |
| Age: | 37 |
| Business: |
Maria Romina
| Place: | Zambales, Philippines |
| Age: | 22 |
| Business: | Secondhand Shop |
Update: Lorenas Piggery
Lorena was given a loan last October 4, 2019; her plan was to start a piggery business with only one gilt (female pig). She used the money that she received from us through breeding […]
The Importance of Sewing
Sewing – the grand art of repairing old clothes or even creating new ones. Talking about sewing makes me inevitably think of my grandmother. I would think of all the times my grandma patched […]
Sewing Trainings
Global Micro Initiative cooperates with many partners in South East Asia. One of our partners is Project Life Subic with its qualitative training program in the Philippines. Many trainees acquire useful skills in processing […]
Philippines: Mobile Payments
A big part of South East Asia’s population already lived in poverty prior the ongoing pandemic. The lockdowns worsened the situation… But some of our microloan participants could sustain their small businesses and adjusted […]
D’arr
| Place: | Olongapo City, Philippines |
| Age: | 28 |
| Business: | Sari-Sari Store |
| Loan: | 90 € |
A Sari-Sari store […]
Women’s Day Celebration
On March 2, 2020, 11 aspiring women and our GMI representatives Anthony, Gilbert and Melinda came together to celebrate the International Women’s Day at the Project Life Subic Center in the Philippines. This year’s […]
Entrepreneur’s Lunch
Recently it was time once again: Our Entrepreneur’s Lunch in the Philippines took place!
In an informal setting, current micro-borrowers and interested parties can exchange ideas, listen to interesting lectures and gain exciting insights into […]
Tobias Schüßler in the Philippines
In early April, our director Tobias Schüßler visited our partner organization Project Life Subic in the Philippines. Besides checking the accounts of our funds, Schüßler also visited current micro loan recipients and conducted interviews […]
My visit in the Slums
GMI member Andreas Schüßler from Hösbach visited our projects in the Philippines with our director Tobias Schüßler in April. He reports:
“Crushing heat, tired dogs, houses without a floor – and in between: Laughing children […]
Losing your home
We actually wanted to visit Angelo – we drove almost an hour with the Jeepney, the typical public transportation of the Philippines. Angelo has renovated a beauty salon with our microcredit. We have not […]
Piggy Banks
This year’s stay in the Philippines was used by our director Tobias Schüßler to develop a new program with the team of our partner organization Project Life Subic. The aim is to bring the […]
Anthony
Would you like to know who is running our projects in the Philippines, in Indonesia or in Thailand and who makes sure that you know what happened to your donation? Then you have come […]
Visiting a Textile Company
Chairman Tobias Schüßler about his visit in two textile manufacturing plants:
One of my highlights of this years stay on the Philippines were the unannounced inspections of two textile manufacturing plants, which have employed some […]
Audit in the Philippines
Chairman Tobias Schüßler was able to travel to the Philippines on short notice. There, he visited our partner organization project life Subic, our our first partner organization since 2014 to give out micro loans […]