CARD-MRI Development Institute, Inc. (CMDI) recently celebrated its 18th years of providing quality education and trainings to staff, students and members of CARD Mutually Reinforcing Institutions (CARD MRI). The celebration, themed “18 years of Sustaining Passion: Learning, Development and Education”, was held simultaneously in CMDI Bay Campus in Bay, Laguna and CMDI Tagum Campus in […]
A carpenter’s trust to his hammer paves way to good work. More than just houses and buildings, carpenters all around the globe work laboriously to provide for their respective families while taking pride in an honest work that they do. In a small town of MacArthur in the province of Leyte lived a highschool graduate […]
Sometimes being good and helping others make life so unfair and bigoted that people stop being one. More and more people start forgetting goodness as part of humanity. In a harmonious town in Lapu-Lapu, Butuan City, someone lived her life helping relatives, neighbors and even strangers without asking for anything in return. Yes, there are […]
The founder and chairman of CARD Mutually Reinforcing Institutions (CARD MRI), Dr. Jaime Aristotle B. Alip, together with the officials of ASA University Bangladesh (ASAUB) honored the graduating students during the 2nd ASAUB Convocation held at the Bangabandhu International Conference last January 29, 2018. Dr. Alip, who served as the convocation speaker, received a plaque […]
More than 800 individuals in Daan Bantayan, Bogo City, Tuburan, and Catmon in Cebu received free medical, dental, and optical services from CARD, Inc. during its Community Health Days (CHD) last January 16-21, 2018. As part of CARD’s Microfinance and Health Protection (MaHP) program, the CHD is a regular initiative of the organization for its […]
The Filipinos taste buds love chocolate! Since the Spaniards brought Cacao plants from Mexico, the crop turned us into a country that craves for something sweet. Jesusa Gadil, resident of Brgy. Luntad, Palo, Leyte, banked on the Filipino’s sweet tooth. Banking on chocolate lovers In 2006, Jesusa saw an opportunity to sell cocoa tablea. Tsokolate […]
Over 1,400 Samareños benefited from the four Community Health Days (CHDs) in the towns of Lorente, Quinapondan, Basey, and Catbalogan City in Samar on January 17-20, 2018 as part of the activities of Microfinance and Health Protection (MaHP) Unit of CARD Mutually Reinforcing Institutions (CARD MRI). Through MaHP, CARD MRI provides medical, dental, and optical […]
It took a housewife many failed attempts before she found herself thriving in an unlikely business. In 1994, Virginia Hermes Rosete first ventured into selling fruits, vegetables, then poultry, but only to find them collapsing one after another. Had she and her husband Edgar gave up on their entrepreneurial wants early on, they wouldn’t experience […]
The CARD Mutually Reinforcing Institutions (CARD MRI) has reached a milestone of serving more than 5.1 million Filipinos nationwide, who have savings and credit accounts with the organization. The milestone is part of CARD MRI’s 5-8-40 strategic direction where the organization aims to reach eight million clients and insure 40 million individuals nationwide in five […]
To provide better lives for their families, millions of Filipinos brave the long distance to find greener pastures so they could send more money to their families back home. Such is the story of the Bautista family from Dulag, Leyte. It was in 1990 when Nathaniel, then 38 years old, left his wife Andrea to […]