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Quezon City’s own version of the highly successful Grameen Bank’s microcredit that benefited thousands of Bangladesh poor is "growing by leaps and bounds" and bringing economic empowerment to the city’s poor families.


Mayor Feliciano Belmonte Jr. described the QC Puhunang Pangkaunlaran Sikap Buhay (PPSB) program "as one of the city’s investments in productivity that lead to enterprise creation and job generation."

The scheme is also fast making Quezon City the country’s entrepreneurship and cooperative center.
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Mayor Feliciano Belmonte Jr. described the Sikap Buhay scheme as "a homegrown livelihood lending and training program that grows by leaps and bounds each year."
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Mayor Feliciano Belmonte Jr. created the task force last year for the purpose of integrating the city government’s effort in helping the poor and providing a comprehensive and continuing documentation of these efforts.
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In a recent speech before the Quezon City Development Council at the Philippine Social Science Center, Mayor Feliciano Belmonte Jr. gave his assurance that city will continue to identify poverty alleviation measures that would effectively respond to needs of the city’s underprivileged sector.
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Quezon City’s own version of the highly successful Grameen Bank’s microcredit that benefited thousands of Bangladesh poor is "growing by leaps and bounds" and bringing economic empowerment to the city’s poor families.


Mayor Feliciano Belmonte Jr. described the QC Puhunang Pangkaunlaran Sikap Buhay (PPSB) program "as one of the city’s investments in productivity that lead to enterprise creation and job generation."

The scheme is also fast making Quezon City the country’s entrepreneurship and cooperative center.
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Mayor Feliciano Belmonte Jr. described the Sikap Buhay scheme as "a homegrown livelihood lending and training program that grows by leaps and bounds each year."
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Mayor Feliciano Belmonte Jr. created the task force last year for the purpose of integrating the city government’s effort in helping the poor and providing a comprehensive and continuing documentation of these efforts.
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In a recent speech before the Quezon City Development Council at the Philippine Social Science Center, Mayor Feliciano Belmonte Jr. gave his assurance that city will continue to identify poverty alleviation measures that would effectively respond to needs of the city’s underprivileged sector.
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