CARD MRI empowers support group in fighting poverty

The CARD Mutually Reinforcing Institutions (CARD MRI), a social development organization based in San Pablo City, Laguna, conducted its second CARD MRI Admin Summit in Davao City to strengthen and empower its staff in building a better nation. The organization through its training institute, CARD-MRI Development Institute (CMDI), is handling an admin summit to its more than a thousand administrative staff like tellers, bookkeepers, cashiers, finance officers and regional accountants who provide a vital support to the CARD MRI field operations.

“A stronger battalion of workers who will fight poverty in the country is vital in achieving our mission,” said CARD MRI Founder and Managing Director Dr. Jaime Aristotle B. Alip. “We are equipping our most valuable asset – our staff, to empower the socioeconomically challenged families,” added Dr. Alip.

In the midst of the workload of the CARD MRI staff, the summit is expected to give enough time to its staff to ponder on their contribution to the success of the organization and how they are helping poor communities improve their lives. It aims that the CARD MRI administrative staff realize their big role in reaching its mission in eradicating poverty in the country.

In the speech of Dr. Alip in the summit, he reminisced the humble beginning of the organization. He shared that CARD started only with a PHP20.00 and a typewriter in 1986. He recalled how this small amount with a burning passion of helping the landless rural farmers in San Pablo City, Laguna is now assisting 3.3 million poor communities all over the country and how 15 social development practitioners who started CARD about 30 years ago has now more than ten thousand workers in the country and abroad.

The admin summit is also a place of learning and recreation where CARD MRI staff can be able to have trips and discover the beauty of the other islands of the country where they have never been. “This summit is also designed to recognize and reward the great contribution of our staff,” said CMDI Dean Edzel Ramos. CMDI is a training institute that equip the CARD MRI staff to be ready in the business of poverty eradication. They continue to provide capacity-building programs to CARD MRI staff to continue in excellence on their jobs.

This program is part of the continuous provision of the capacity-building program of CARD MRI and is part of the 5-8-40 strategy of the organization – in five years, CARD MRI will reach eight million clients and insure 40 million individuals. The admin summit aims to produce passionate staff that will truly have the heart to help the poor.

CMDI will be conducting 11 batches to its 1, 109 admin staff before September 2016 ends.