AWCF moves offices

After two decades of holding office in Project 4, Quezon City, Philippines, the AWCF Secretariat moved offices to nearby Cubao, Quezon City at the onset of year 2011. Rev. Fr. Roger Enaje of the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish located also in Cubao officiated the office blessing on February 18, 2011. The short program and get-together that followed the blessing

enabled some networking among AWCF’s guests from co-ops and funding agencies. Guests included Ms Lecira Juarez, immediate past Chairperson of the Philippine government’s Coope

rative Development Authority (CDA); management and staff of the National Confederation of Cooperatives (NATCCO) (AWCF’s member in the Philippines) led by Chief Operating Officer Mr. Raul Calayan Jr.; management and staff of Ligas Kooperatiba ng

Bayan sa Pagpapaunlad (LKBP), Sacred Heart Credit and Development Cooperative (SHCDC), and St. Martin of Tours Credit and Development Cooperative (SMTCDC); Ms Anneli Leina, Country Director of the Swedish Cooperative Centre (SCC)-Philippines and Mr. Michel Pierre Bergeron, consultant of the Desjardins Development International (DID); AWCF consultant Ms Brenda Batistiana; and service providers of AWCF in travel, transport, and

insurance.