Conference
Organizers
PhilSmile
PhilSmile is a new payment facility, enabling Overseas Filipinos (OFW) to pay directly the school of their relatives back in the Philippines, securing the key goal of OFW, Makapagpatapos (have their children graduate). By paying directly the school, PhilSmile reduces remittances costs and reconnects parents and their children left behind. 9m children under 18 grow up with one or both parents living and working abroad (UNICEF, 2009).
Contact:
Camille "Cam" Krejci
CEO PhilSmile
47 Esteban Abada Street, Loyola Heights, Quezon City, Metro Manila
+63 (02) 512 2144 / +63 918 282 5776
WIMLER Foundation Philippines
The WIMLER Partnership for Social Progress, Inc. is a small non-profit and non-governmental organisation which aims to contribute to the development. WIMLER supports the education of poor children, capacity building of grassroots community.
WIMLER Foundation Hong Kong is the sister organization of WIMLER Philippines. WIMLER Foundation Hong Kong Ltd. was officially registered in 2011 as a non-profit and charitable organization which primary objective is to support the capacity building and empowerment of migrant communities regardless of nationalities and to promote cultural diversity in Hong Kong based on mutual respect, solidarity, and shared empowerment among peoples.
Contact:
Leila Rispens-Noel
President and Co-founder
WIMLER Foundation, Phil.
Ateneo de Davao University
The Ateneo de Davao University is run by the Society of Jesus in Davao City in the Philippines. It is also known by the acronym AdDU. Ateneo Migration Center (AMC) is a center that utilizes the three-fold function of the University towards generation of appropriate responses to migration concerns confronting Mindanao. It is preferable that said responses to migration concerns are informed by perspectives that are right-based, gender and culture responsive, pluralist, ecologically sound and trans- disciplinary and were arrived at through collaborative and participatory processes. AMC conducts relevant research studies and craft policy recommendations, capacity building, resource mobilization and builds partnership with relevant organizations. AMC organized Financial Literacy, Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship (FLSE) in Davao City for OFW families in partnership with Ateneo de Manila University School of Government and other partner organizations.
Contact:
Mildred Megarbio-Estanda
Director
B/F Finster Bldg., Ateneo de Davao University
Jacinto Street, Davao City, Philippines 8000
Telefax no. 2242955
Email: migration@addu.edu.ph
MINCODE (Mindanao Coalition of Development NGO Networks)
MINCODE is a coalition of twelve (12) networks of NGOs based in
Mindanao. It was organized in 1991 and registered with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 1992.
Contact:
Patricia "Pat" Sarenas
No. 3 Juna Avenue corner Camia Streets, Juna Subdivision,
Matina, Davao City 8000
(082) 299 0625