PSHF
Philippine Self-Help Foundation
PARTNERING TOWARDS SELF-RELIANCE
The PSHF's main goal is to provide loans to poor families in the Philippines. The typical loan beneficiary would have an income of only 100 pesos per day and would be struggling hard to meet daily expenses from this. The PSHF’s intention is to encourage self-help, so the loans are used as capital for small businesses and repaid from profit.
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-- Luzminda Barbadillo (56) leads the Pinangimnan Farmers' group in Guba, Santa Catalina Negros Oriental. She and eleven others received a group loan of 67,000 pesos (US$1,588) from the PSHF in August 2010 which they used to produce peanuts and mung beans (mongo). A month before this, three kids were born to Luzminda's goat, and the goat has only two teats. She obtained a feeding bottle to feed the third kid. One day, the kid probably could not wait for its feeding bottle and when it saw Luzminda, it sniffed her hand and started sucking her finger. -- rice cultivation begins on pshf farm
Miguel and his carabao arrived on the morning of Thursday, 16th September, 2011 to do a first ploughing of two flat plots of terrain designated for our rice farming venture. The size of the two plots is small which meant we did not have space for a seedbed. We solved the problem by using the elevated seedbed technique. Read more. |
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The Founder
Richard Foster. Soon after my return to Japan, I was alerted through a newspaper article to a famine on the Philippine island of Negros. The world price of sugar had collapsed and thousands of sugar workers could no longer feed their families. I resolved to go and on January 1st 1987, I landed in the capital city, Bacolod. Read more.
Where We Operate
Philippine Christmas
Dan Brandsma. We had seen poverty, been offered friendship unconditionally, and been given an opportunity to encourage others. The awkwardness of being different, although it never disappeared, was replaced by a feeling of love and acceptance. God’s gift to me this Christmas was one of relationship, and encouragement. I am thankful that our family was able to share this rich experience together. Read more.
