Winners of the Villar SIPAG Awards
It was on December 13, 2012 when the Villar Foundation finally opens SIPAG Center to the public. It was also on that same year that the foundation was celebrating its 20th anniversary of providing livelihood programs to many Filipino families. Villar Foundation's advocacy includes promoting livelihood projects such as weaving baskets using water hyacinth, solid waste management to saving a river (Las Pinas-Zapote river) skill-up training, medical assistance and scholarship. A year after the SIPAG Center was inaugurated, The Villar SIPAG Awards for Poverty Reduction . was launched. It's a nationwide search to recognize the excellent achievements of community enterprises that gave impact to local economic development and betterment of Filipino lives. With poverty, as one of the nation's leading problems, the Villar SIPAG Awards aim to recognize good practices or innovations of community enterprises, which produces more jobs thus increase household income . It als...