Kalinga ng Ama Sustainability Project

1. Kalinga ng Ama Sustainability Project Rice and Palay Trading

2. Project Type Livelihood and Sustainability Project

3. Project Site Bonuan Gueset, Dagupan City and Satellite location in Sapang, Sta. Barbara

4. Number of Target Beneficiaries • 32 Shelter Children (Direct Beneficiaries) • 25-50 Farmers (Indirect Beneficiaries)

5. Total Cost: Php 2,050,000.00 Requested Project Cost: Php 2,000,000.00

6. Proponent Name: KALINGA NG AMA SHELTER FOR CHILDREN # 7 Beverly Hills, Bonuan Gueset, Dagupan City (075) 515-3710 Email: eagle@seamist.org

7. Major Programs and Services Offered • Residential Care • Psycho-social Development • Treatment and Nurture • Spiritual Growth • Education • for Street Children • Altenative Larning System • Reading, Writing and Numeracy • Scholarship

8. Major Programs and Services Offered cont…… • Health • Medical programs • Dental check-up • Skills Training • Arts and Craft • Food Processing • Spiritual and Values Formation • Sustainablity

9. Rationale • Two-thirds of Philippine poor are found in rural areas. Many of them are found in the uplands, agricultural and coastal areas, engaged in subsistence farming and fishing. • Extending support to this sector is one strategy to improve their agricultural productivity, thereby increasing their income and minimizing their dependence.

10. Rationale • This will lessen the incidence of dysfunctional family, juvenile delinquencies, stow away kids because of poverty and street children beggars. • Another strategy to help the poor is to enhance the poor’s productive assets by facilitating access to financial services, mobilization of internal funds and sourcing of external funds to finance income-generating and livelihood projects.

11. Rationale cont…. • In the absence of employment opportunities in the formal market, the poor engage in multiple micro or livelihood enterprises. • What the poor needs is access to continuous financial services – credit, small savings instrument and micro-finance.

12. Rationale cont…. • Hence this proposal is being submitted to access funds for the rice and palay trading of the Kalinga ng Ama Shelter for Children. • This project is being proposed so that whatever income generated from this project will be used to sustain part of the operational expenses of the Center since it has no regular supporters or donors that will sustain its day to day operation.

13. Rationale cont…. • Present donations come from concerned citizens, churches, church members, family members and friends. • The project hopes to generate income that will enhance the financial capacity of the Center to provide quality service to its clientele and for expansion. • At present, the Center is supporting 32 street kids and 20 staff.

14. This sustainability project is needed to continually implement The following programs and services which are being rendered to the children

15. Residential Care Psycho-social Development Treatment and Nurture Spiritual Growth Education for Street Children Altenative Larning System Reading, Writing and Numeracy Scholarship Health Medical programs Dental check-up Skills Training Arts and Craft Food Processing Spiritual and Values Formation Sustainablity

16. WHY RICE AND PALAY TRADING ? • Pangasinan is basically an agricultural province with a total land area of 536, 818 hectares. From the total land area, 373,720 hectares are agricultural with the following land disaggregation: Croplands gets 238,608 hectares, pastureland gets 122,608 hectares an aquaculture gets 13,042 hectares. • Agriculture has been the traditional economic base of Pangasinan and will continue to be a significant sector in the province economic development. It is the major source of livelihood for more than one-half of its population absorbing 36% of its total labor force in year 2000.

17. WHY RICE AND PALAY TRADING ? cont… • The projected population for the province in five years time (2000 to 2006) is 2,807,955 and in the year 2010 will increase to 3,088,585 people. This means that rice which is the staple food of the province should be produced increasingly every year to be able to meet the needs of the people in Pangasinan. • The province through the Department of Agriculture only provided farmers and fisherfolks valuable farm interventions and support that enabled them to increase their harvests. The interventions and assistance provided in the last three years were fundamentally on the input or production side.

18. WHY RICE AND PALAY TRADING ? cont…… • In the next months, the present administration shall explore together with lending institutions and cooperatives, the possibility of providing assistance to our farmers on the market side.(Socio-Economic Profile, CY 2000). • The thrusts of government today is to put greater emphasis on livelihood projects for the less poor especially the farmers with components including skills and technology training, credit and livelihood assistance, and technical extension.

19. CIRCUMSTANCES THAT MAY AFFECT THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THIS PROJECT: • Sustainability of supply for this project will be affected only if calamities such as floods and unforeseen circumstances such as pestilence that will affect the production of palay will occur. • Also a significant factor that will affect the operation of this project is the fluctuation of prices that will occur in the market and the unhealthy competition posed by other middlemen in the same field of enterprise.

20. The project intends to address these constraints by doing the following measures: • Identifying other supply sources that can supply the need of the project in case the present source of supply will be affected. • Store a steady supply of palay in a warehouse during harvest season when prices are cheaper and dispose them when prices are a little bit higher. • Tie-up with farmer’s cooperatives whose members are engaged in the palay production to ensure a steady supply of palay.

21. Benefits of the project to the beneficiaries • The project will pool additional funds to sustain the continuing operations of the Kalinga ng Ama Children for Children, to improve its quality of service and to expand its operation to greater number of children. • The project will provide additional employment for the members of the Christ Our Life Ministries, a faith-based organization that is overseeing the Shelter. • The project will uplift the living conditions of the farmer-beneficiaries by giving them a sure market of their produce at a higher price.

22. Main strategy • The project will concentrate only in the buy and sell of rice and palay. Supply of palay will be bought from the nearby municipalities producing palay in Pangasinan like Sta. Barbara, Aguilar, Basista, Binmaley, Bugallon, Labrador, Lingayen, Mangatarem and Urbiztondo. • Other municipalities and provinces will also be tapped in case supply of palay will not be met. • The palay supply will be milled and the rice will be marketed to different outlets, either on wholesale and retail.

23. Goals and Strategies • Ensure a steady supply of palay and rice. • Source out funds from other Local and foreign sources in the next five years to add to the capital of the project. • Organize a cooperative for the Kalinga to increase its capital build-up so this will cushion the vacuum created by the completion of the project. • Implement fund raising projects that will earn additional source of income and capital build-up for the Shelter.

24. Goals and Strategies cont… • Part of the net earnings of the project will be plowed back to capital build-up to slowly cover the needed capital for the project. • The women members can also be organized to help in the project especially in the store where the goods can be displayed and stored for disposal. The women can assist in the lighter assignments like palay classification and sourcing out market outlets for the rice supply.

25. Goals and Strategies cont… • Continuous project management training and assistance for the project implementors will be sought and conducted from the NGO community like the Informatrix Consultancy and Research Institute (ICRI). • The Pangasinan Federation of NGOs can also be tapped for technical and marketing assistance and the government sector like the Department of Agriculture, Department of Trade and Industry, the Cooperative Development Authority and the National Food Authority can also be tapped to strengthen the management capability of the project management personnel assigned in the project.

26. Development Objectives: • Support services towards agricultural productivity will be continuously provided by other partners like the Department of Agriculture or the Department of Agrarian Reform. Modern agricultural technology will be conducted to the identified farmer-cooperators so that there will be steady supply of palay at an increased production..

27. Development Objectives: • Interventions from the government like farm to market roads, post harvest facilities, and marketing assistance will also contribute to the upliftment of the living standards of the poor farmers.

28. Development Objectives: • Partnership with NGOs and Government Agencies on marketing and project management will equip the project implementers the necessary skills to manage the project.

29. Immediate Objectives: • Due to increase agricultural productivity, the farmer-beneficiaries will be able to uplift their status of living. • Continuous capability building will also bring about empowerment to the farmer beneficiaries • The beneficiaries will learn the value of industry, cooperation, support and trust with each other to be able to attain their goals and objectives in the project.

30. Immediate Objectives: • Since the Center will be able to establish linkages with government and non-government organizations operating in the area, they will tapped as partners in the delivery of basic social services not only in agriculture but also in health, education, and other community services. • Capability building on the following aspects from other stable organization shall also be accessed so that the proponent as well as the partners will be able to access grants from local and foreign countries: • Unity and Strategic Direction • Governance • Administration • Organizational Standards • Program Operations/Enterprise Development • Financial Management • Networking/Linkaging

31. Financial and Economic Soundness • The total project budget needed for the start-up of the project is P2,000,000.00 for funding assistance and P50,000.00 for the counterpart fund.

32. As can be gleaned from the 5-Year Projected Cash Flow, a total of P2,262,402.60 project income can be generated within the 5-year period of project operations. This means that the project is very much feasible.

33. Financial and Economic Soundness • The computed return on investment based on a net income of P2,262,402.60 in five years period is 110.36 percent or an average of 22.07 % return on investment within the five-year period. • A Capital Build-up of 10% based on net income per year is computed to flow back to the additional operational needs of the Kalinga ng Ama Shelter for Children. Hence, the sustainability of the project will not be affected.

34. Financial and Economic Soundness • The projected population of Pangasinan in five years time (2006) is 2,807,955 and in the year 2010 is 3,088,585 people. This means that rice which is the staple food of the province should be produced increasingly every year to be able to meet the needs of the people in Pangasinan. • Neighboring towns, provinces and cities such as Baguio City, Manila, Zambales, La Union and Ilocos are some possible market expansion outlets for the rice supply.

35. Financial and Economic Soundness • This project can only absorbed a small market share to sustain the needs of the Shelter. Future expansion will be considered if there will be enough funds to support its expansion.

36. Financial and Economic Soundness • It will build the capabilities of the poor to help themselves. Children-beneficiaries who are growing to become young people will be enhanced in their capabilities to earn incomes that will enable them to meet their minimum basic needs and mobilize their savings after they are out of the shelter residential program.

37. Financial and Economic Soundness • It will foster sustainable income-generating community projects. The project will provide a continuous source of income for the farmer-beneficiaries thereby uplifting their living standards. • It will revive economic growth to create employment and livelihood in the community.

38. Financial and Economic Soundness • The Shelter will be able to create additional employment for its members as well as generate increased incomes for the farmer-beneficiaries. • Linkages with other marketing outlets will also create additional revenues for the government from the taxes.

39. Impact after or during the project implementation in relationship to Local and National Development • It will build the capabilities of the poor to help themselves. • Children-beneficiaries who are growing to become young people will be enhanced in their capabilities to earn incomes that will enable them to meet their minimum basic needs and mobilize their savings after they are out of the shelter residential program.

40. Impact after or during the project implementation in relationship to Local and National Development • It will foster sustainable income-generating community projects. • The project will provide a continuous source of income for the farmer-beneficiaries thereby uplifting their living standards.

41. Impact after or during the project implementation in relationship to Local and National Development • It will revive economic growth to create employment and livelihood in the community. • The Shelter will be able to create additional employment for its members as well as generate increased incomes for the farmer-beneficiaries. • Linkages with other marketing outlets will also create additional revenues for the government from the taxes.

42. Organizational Strengthening 1. Unity and Strategic Directions Workshop. The Directors and Management Staff will undergo a Workshop and Action Planning to review and re-formulate the Shelter’s Direction and also to formulate a 5-Year Action Plan.

43. Organizational Strengthening 2. Administration and Governance. • Efforts will also be focused in the Functions and Responsibilities of the personnel and managers so that they will be able to know and deliver their job responsibilities in the organization. • Committees shall be formed to support the management and policies shall be reviewed and formulated if they are lacking. • Continuous training and participation of the personnel in other management seminars to gain knowledge and experience shall also be implemented.

44. Organizational Strengthening 3. Project/Enterprise Management. • Training shall be conducted on project/enterprise management to the committees in-charge in order to give them skills in the management of income-generating projects of the Shelter. This will insure a successful implementation of the sustainability projects.

45. Organizational Strengthening 4. Financial Management/Sustainability. • Efforts shall be focused also on the strengthening of the financial management skills of the staff assigned to take care of the finances of the Shelter and skills of Committees in-charge in the accessing additional financial support for the operations of the Shelter’s Programs.

46. Organizational Strengthening 5. Networking and Linkaging. Continuous networking and linkaging shall be undertaken by the Shelter’s Management with the different stakeholders and partners either local or international to also insure additional operational support.

47. Organizational Strengthening Membership and affiliations in provincial and regional associations like the Pangasinan Federation of NGOs and ABSNET shall also be strengthened in order to update the management for additional linkages and developments with respect to its areas of concerns.

48. The budget requirement of the project is projected for five years