SAFADECO inspires other ARB Organizations

The SAFADECO Core Management Team with NATCCO Area Manager

Upper Photo: Leonardo Banga, NATCCO Area Manager; Jessica Samantha D. Acleta, SAFADECO General Manager;  Salvacion Nicolas, Operation and Supervision Unit Head for Southern Luzon; Gerwyn Pura, NATCCO Area Manager; and Tita Desquitado,  BOD Chairperson

SORSOGON CITY – Salvacion Farmers’ Development Cooperative or SAFADECO in Sorsogon City successfully finished their strategic planning for the coming three years.

Facilitated by NATCCO, officers of SAFADECO reviewed their vision, mission, goals, and objectives. Everybody is satisfied because throughout the year the cooperative has done what are stated in its VMGO. Apart from that, they are happy upon knowing that SAFADECO can already buy-out from NATCCO this coming 2016. However, they still like to continue their partnership, thus, for the next years, NATCCO will be the SAFADECO’s consultant.

Aside from credit and savings, SAFADECO is also engaged in Consumer Store and Copra Trading, their original business which they used to call “other business”. This cooperative which was built in piso-piso member-contribution way back in 1992 has inspired other ARB organizations. Just recently, the Belen Bonot Manguiring Village Level Production Association (BBMVLPA) in Calabanga, Camarines Sur visited SAFADECO because according to them they like to know the cooperative’s best practices.

“One of our best practices is the application of three Ps which was taught to us by the Social Entrepreneurship Development Partnership, Incorporated. This is in business, we should not just be concerned on profit alone, but we should consider the welfare of the society or the people and the environment or the planet,” Agnes Bellen, Manager for SAFADECO’s other business said.