Microentrepreneurship

FWN Launches the Tacloban 34 Women Microfinance Fund in Tacloban

FWN Launches the Tacloban 34 Women Microfinance Fund in Tacloban

On January 20th, Filipina Women’s Network and the Filipina Women Global Fund launched the Tacloban 34 Women Fund, a micro enterprise revolving loan fund for 34 women residents of Habitat for Humanity Kawayanville in Tacloban, Leyte. The initiative was financed by funds raised for Rebuild Tacloban. 

The 34 women of Kawayanville pitched to Filipina Women’s Network the small businesses they intend to establish to meet the much-needed services in their newly-built community after Typhoon Yolanda destroyed their families, homes and businesses. 

Entrepreneur Myrna T. Yao (Global FWN100™ '15) Shares Her Global Vision of Women in Business in Exclusive ABS-CBN Interview

Entrepreneur Myrna T. Yao (Global FWN100™ '15) Shares Her Global Vision of Women in Business in Exclusive ABS-CBN Interview

Myrna T. Yao, CEO of Richprime Global Inc. (Global FWN™ '15) got her first entrepreneurial start at her family's sari-sari store and selling accessories to her classmates in Bicol.  She now heads Richwell Trading,  a leader in distribution and retail of branded consumer goods in the Philippines. Yao was recently interviewed by ABS-CBN where she shared meaningful insight on micro-entrepreneurship as the chairperson of the Philippine Commission on Women. In support of women's entrepreneurship, Yao shared, “if you have an idea, don’t wait, and if you’re afraid to make mistakes, mistakes will make you learn and will make you grow. So any problem that comes, you just have to face it and then you will learn from it and you will grow from it. And then you will be a better person and a better entrepreneur." Watch the video interview after the jump.