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    Entrepreneur'S Field or Expertise: Social Entrepreneurs

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    Senator Cynthia Villar became a social entrepreneur to create livelihood opportunities for women through projects run by her foundation, Villar SIPAG. The foundation aims to help OFWs, protect the environment, and reduce poverty by generating jobs. Anna Meloto-Wilk became a social entrepreneur as the daughter of Gawad Kalinga's founder. While she initially worked in other industries, she now leads Human Nature, which promotes advocacy for local ingredients, empowering communities through fair trade, and environmentally friendly products. Both women pursue social entrepreneurship to generate jobs and opportunities that alleviate poverty in the Philippines.

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    Senator Cynthia Villar became a social entrepreneur to create livelihood opportunities for women through projects run by her foundation, Villar SIPAG. The foundation aims to help OFWs, protect the environment, and reduce poverty by generating jobs. Anna Meloto-Wilk became a social entrepreneur as the daughter of Gawad Kalinga's founder. While she initially worked in other industries, she now leads Human Nature, which promotes advocacy for local ingredients, empowering communities through fair trade, and environmentally friendly products. Both women pursue social entrepreneurship to generate jobs and opportunities that alleviate poverty in the Philippines.

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    Senator Cynthia Villar became a social entrepreneur to create livelihood opportunities for women through projects run by her foundation, Villar SIPAG. The foundation aims to help OFWs, protect the environment, and reduce poverty by generating jobs. Anna Meloto-Wilk became a social entrepreneur as the daughter of Gawad Kalinga's founder. While she initially worked in other industries, she now leads Human Nature, which promotes advocacy for local ingredients, empowering communities through fair trade, and environmentally friendly products. Both women pursue social entrepreneurship to generate jobs and opportunities that alleviate poverty in the Philippines.

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    ENTREPRENEURS FIELD OR EXPERTISE

    SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS

    SENATOR CYNTHIA VILLAR

    Cynthia Aguilar Villar is a Filipino politician and wife of billionaire


    businessman Manny Villar. She was a member of the House of Representatives for
    the Lone District of Las Pias from 2001-2010 and is currently a senator.

    She was raised by her grandmother who sold betel nut at the local palengke and a
    public school teacher mom, the senator is not only the strong woman behind her
    real-estate developer and public servant husband; more recently, shes at the
    frontline of national development.

    I know that being a senator is legislative


    work. But in addition to lawmaking, I want to create practical projects that can
    help the country, Sen. Villar notes. In 1995, she founded the Villar Social Institute of Poverty Alleviation and
    Governance (Villar SIPAG), a non-stock, non-profit foundation built to complement the entrepreneurial and
    agricultural development measures she and her husband Manny have introduced in Congress.

    We have three major advocacies: helping OFWs, environmental protection and of course creating
    livelihood opportunities to reduce poverty, she explains.

    Why she became a social entrepreneur?


    Senator Cynthia Villar creates livelihood opportunities for women through Villar Foundations
    community enterprise projects, spotting opportunities to improve lives and further help
    people.

    ANNA MELOTO-WILK

    Anna is a daughter of Antonio Meloto, the founder


    of Gawad Kalinga, a Philippine-based poverty alleviation
    and nation-building movement. As a daughter of
    someone who has responsibility in his shoulders to
    somehow do something to level the playing field and
    provide more opportunities for the poor, she grew up in
    a village where the middle class and poor
    were neighbours. Their family only had
    enough or just the basics for a dignified life. They were exposed to the
    realities of poverty and inequality in the Philippines at a young age.
    This experience helped shape their values and taught them to interact
    with people from all walks of life and treat everyone with dignity
    and respect.

    After college, she decided to enter the corporate world instead of joining Gawad
    Kalinga as she felt the need to find her own path and step out of her father's shadow. She fell in love with the
    art of brand-building and communications. She worked in media, advertising and a multinational food brand
    where she learned the skills she find useful in leading Human Nature.
    She is currently the President of Gandang Kalikasan, Inc., the makers of Human Nature, a brand of
    natural personal care and cosmetic products. She is in new product development, promotion of social
    entrepreneurship and Gawad Kalinga partnerships.
    Why she became a social entrepreneur?

    Human Natures promote advocacies that are Pro-Philippines, in which they use local ingredients whenever
    possible so made in the Philippines can mean world-class; Pro-poor, to empower rural and urban
    communities by buying raw materials and finished goods at fair trade prices and lastly Pro-environment,
    biodegradable and at least 95% natural-safe to earth, kind to animals and good for you.

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