Empowering Filipino Migrant Workers in Hong Kong
Five years after attending the ALSE of Life Course, Rolante Corpuz crafted his homecoming. “I want to be with my family and manage our business. Besides, I want to devote more time to the farm. I am already 59 years old. It’s time to go home.”
After a successful year of working together in 2023, the WIMLER Foundation Hong Kong will continue formalized its collaboration with the Southeast Asia Research Center (SEARC) of the City University in Hong Kong to provide empowerment and capacity-building programs for Filipino migrant workers in 2024. As of 2019, over 12 million Filipino overseas workers collectively…
May 5th, 2024, Hong Kong. The launch and orientation of the Ateneo Leadership Social Enterprise Overseas Filipinos Leadership, Innovation, Financial Literacy, and Social Entrepreneurship (ALSE OF-LIFE Batch 127) took place today at the City University of Hong Kong, with sixty-one participants, including 58 domestic helpers and four permanent residents. In 2019, the number of Filipinos…
After a three-year hiatus, Ateneo School of Government (ASOG) and WIMLER Foundation Hong Kong, launched the Ateneo Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship (ALSE) now called Overseas Filipinos Leadership, Social Innovation, Financial Literacy, and Social Enterprise (ALSE OF-LIFE) on April 30, 2023. Of the 35 participants attending the six-month course, four are permanent residents of Hong Kong….
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a pandemic. Because of restrictions of movements and physical activities, WIMLER Foundation Hong Kong and WIMLER Philippines extended help and organized activities in 2021-22 on a limited scale. Send a Child a School Relief Assistance: Survivors of Typhoon Odette in Dinagat…
In October 2019, the province of North Cotabato in Mindanao suffered three unprecedented strong earthquakes within the span of two weeks: a 6.3 magnitude one on October 16, a 6.6 magnitude on October 29, and just two days after on October 31, a 6.5 magnitude. These series of earthquakes resulted in enormous structural damage to…
On behalf of Wimler Foundation Hong Kong, I would like to express our deepest gratitude to Bella Foundation for its donation in the amount of HK$ 75,000. This is the second year WIMLER Foundation received a donation from Bella Foundation. The donation enables WIMLER to implement its migrant empowerment and capacity building program for migrant…
WIMLER Foundation Hong Kong and Tribal Women Weavers Association launched a coffee project on February 22, 2021 as livelihood project for the members. Twenty-six members received 2,600 seedlings to be planted to their farm lots. Total number of beneficiaries: 39 7 members are both coffee nursery workers and planters 19 coffee planters 13 coffee nursery…
WIMLER also extended Ph 50,000 to Kinilidad Elementary School in Sta. Maria, Davao del Sur. The amount was used to purchase printer, printing papers, alcohol, facial masks, and school supplies to benefit 120 pupils of Kinilidan Elementary School, Sta. Maria, Davao del Sur. All the pupils belong to the Tagakaolo tribe. Kinilidan is located 26…
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, WIMLER re-designed its assistance to the school children under the Send a Child to School Program. In 2021, WIMLER provided a heavy-duty printer worth Ph 50,000 to Bacolod Refugee Training Center in cooperation with Department of Education Alternative Learning System (ALS). The machine will print life skills modules to be…
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