CARD MRI has been responsive to every need of its affected families under its wings through fast payment of claims, urgent provision of relief goods, and a reliable communication system among its staff and members. As of August 7, 2014, after thorough assessment of affected families, CARD MRI reported 153,672 clients affected by typhoon Glenda. […]
University of Iloilo, Iloilo City – Fifty nine scholars of CARD MRI from the different provinces of Visayas recently gathered together in a 3-day youth summit dubbed as “Pagbulas” to discover, enhance and fuel their potentials for social awareness and community development. Pagbulas is the annual gathering of CARD MRI scholars. This year is the […]
As the number of affected individuals by typhoon Glenda increased, the number of assistance and support from the different organizations, public and private, is also mounting like that of CARD MRI for its members. Of the increasing number of distressed individuals, the percentage of validated and paid claims of CARD has also increased showing fast […]
When typhoon Glenda strikes the areas of Luzon and Visayas, including the head office of CARD MRI in San Pablo, Laguna, it left the areas in clutter and the power and communication down. Almost 80% of CARD members were also badly hit in the affected areas. The Disaster Response team of CARD MRI immediately called […]
The Philippines has been stricken by numerous disasters. Millions have lost lives, loved ones, homes and sources of living. “Everything has changed but we are back, back to normal life where it has been”, shared Nanay Norma Cabrera, CARD MRI member, when asked how she and her family are doing six months after the super […]
Motivated by their mutual desire to lift poor Filipino families out of poverty, and their belief that education is a critical intervention to achieve that, Radiowealth Finance Corporation, Inc. (RFC) has forged a partnership with Center for Agriculture and Rural Development, Inc. (CARD, Inc.) to help 50,000 poor Filipino families keep their children […]
A total of 1,463 Cagayanos recently benefited from the two-day Community Health Day conducted by the MFIs for Health or Joint Microfinance and Health Protection Program in Gonzaga and Aparri, Cagayan Valley. During the community health day, microfinance clients who have low or no access to health care availed of free dental care and extraction, […]
Only about three months after Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) devastated the province of Leyte, CARD Bank, Inc. held its first ever savings caravan in Tacloban City. This event is just one of CARD Bank’s several efforts to educate the poor on the importance of saving. But for almost 600 CARD members who trooped to the Leyte […]
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has approved the request of Rizal Rural Bank (Taytay, Rizal), Inc., the newly acquired bank of CARD MRI, to open 18 new micro-banking offices (MBOs) in the areas of Sta. Cruz, Laguna, San Fernando, Pampanga, and Taytay, Rizal which hopes to broaden the breadth and depth of accessibility of […]
In bringing health services more accessible especially to the areas wrecked by the 7.2 magnitude quake and the super-typhoon Yolanda last year, CARD MRI recently conducted special community health days in Cebu and Leyte where 856 clients, dependents, staff and general public were served. Free consultation and medicines were provided during the said special community […]