BDO Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of BDO Unibank, has forged ties with Mitsubishi Corp. for a corporate citizenship initiative that benefits more than 100 rice farmers in Nueva Ecija.
Mitsubishi and BDO Foundation have agreed to provide capacity enhancement training to the Kooperatibang Likas ng Nueva Ecija, a farmers organization in the province. In partnership with National University, the foundation started to facilitate financial education training for members of the cooperative.
Professors and volunteer speakers from the university shared with beneficiaries lessons on such topics as saving, budgeting, simple accounting, proposal writing, entrepreneurship and product costing to help improve the financial literacy and productivity of the farmers. Through the training sessions, participants explored alternative ways to generate income.
The partners will also turn over tractors to the farmers organization. Project managed by BDO Foundation, the joint initiative was made possible by a donation from Mitsubishi .
