TESTIMONIES
KRCI reached 84,000+ members and their families since the year 2001 blessing the entrepreneurial poor and transforming communities. Partner with us!
AWARDEES
Mr. Arnolfo G. Dajay, 60 years old Fisherfolk, Fish cage Brgy. Pasil, EB Magalona 7th cycle, P30k He used to deliver his catch to Pala-pala restaurants but when pandemic came these restaurants closed. Instead of supplying fish to the restaurants, he was able to supply the fish vendors in their community in which he cannot cater before
Richard F. Federiso, 46 years old, lives under the bridge at Brgy. Matab-ang, Talisay City on his 15th cycle, P120k With various micro-business including coffee shop, tricycle, fish vending, etc. During pandemic, tricycle business almost stopped because of the lock down, Manong Richard converted his tricycles to deliver fish on a house to house basis. They also put up their own talipapa. During this time, his major income came from fish vending.
Outstanding Client Leader Award/Serbisyong Pampamayanan Award: Mrs. Gina Arucan Bacolod Branch Dev. Officer: Herman Caramales Prize Received: P20,000, Certificate and Plaque at the 29th APPEND Leadership Conference (ALC) Grew 3 businesses from 1997 up to the present and became a Center Chief in her community.
For The People and Planet:
KRCI Manangement and Staff with the Board of Trustees inaugurate KRCI Bago Farm: Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
To date, as of 2023, KRCI through its microfinance operations has reached over 84,000+ families around the island of Negros Occidental, Philippines.
"Give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day. Give a woman microcredit, she, her husband, her children and her extended family will eat for a lifetime." - Bono
"The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!" - Muhammad Yunus
"Microfinance stands as one of the most promising and cost-effective tools in the fight against global poverty." - Jonathan Morduch2
"Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool for poverty alleviation ... but we move beyond micro-hopes and micro-ambitions as we operate rooted in biblical principles. - Raffi Catalan, KRCI Chairman
Deuteronomy 15:11 There will always be poor people in the land. That is why I command you to be ready to help your brother or sister. Give to the poor in your land who need help.
One of the many Micro-Enterprise Business Curriculum Roll-Out to all members of KRCI ... because entrepreneurship is a calling.
See the awesome and life changing training HERE. We have rolled it out around our province already.
Inauguration of Bunga Organic Farmers Association / BOFA, a livelihood project among Don Salvador Benedicto farmers in partnership with KRCI and sponsored by Partners Worldwide. They traveled all the way from the USA to join the event.
Farmer Members Training: Feed mill production.
Katuwang Team with BOFA and Partners Worldwide at the initial feeds production
Thank you Partners Worldwide for helping the members of KRCI, entrepreneurial poor with small businesses like BOFA that you seek to create environments and communities where all can flourish. To God be all the glory!