FIELD WORK

MY work in the last 10 years has been spent in working with various communities and sectors. I have worked with the underprivileged children, youth, families, and communities in Davao City. I have extensively worked with big and small savings and credit coops in Mindanao and the Visayas from Catarman, Northern Samar to Bongao, Tawi-Tawi. I have spent many occasions visiting an agrarian reform coop in Lamitan, Basilan. I also have the privilege to share my time and talent to huge coops such as the First Community Cooperative in Cagayan de Oro City and Metro Ormoc Community Credit Cooperative in Leyte. I saw how Abuyog Saint Francis Xavier Credit Cooperative in Abuyog, Leyte used teamwork to make itself so huge and be listed as one of the wealthiest cooperatives in the Visayas.

I also had the privilege to work with the youth seaweed farmers of Sitangkai, Tawi-Tawi. Recently, I was assigned in Davao and Cotabato areas, working with the organic rice and muscovado farming communities.

This happens when the weather doesn't cooperate. I end up with my jeans and pair of shoes soaked in mud.