CARD MRI holds Kaunlaran Caravan in Isabela
CARD Mutually Reinforcing Institutions (CARD MRI) conducted its 7th Kaunlaran Caravan at Cauayan City, Isabela on August 16, 2019. Kaunlaran Caravan is CARD MRI’s initiative to provide access to its community development programs and services for the locals.
The said caravan was hosted by CARD MRI Rizal Bank, Inc. (CMRBI), a microfinance banking institution under CARD MRI, to extend the non-financial services of the organization to the communities they serve.
Said Ma. Adoracion M. Ola, CMRBI’s Assistant Vice President for Operations, “Providing them not only access to financial services, but also community development programs are also needed to cut the vicious cycle of poverty.â€
Free medical, eye, and dental check-up, financial literacy through storytelling, dental health education, feeding program for kids, product development, GLIP product orientation, haircut, hands, feet, and nail cleaning were the activities given by CARD MRI to the local community.
The community development programs of CARD MRI are done multiple times in a year but in the case of the Kaunlaran Caravan, they brought its extensive programs and services in one place. The caravan is done once every quarter.
Since 2017, the Kaunlaran Caravan has already provided its services to more than 3,500 individuals.
The next Kaunlaran Caravan is set to be conducted in General Santos City on October 2019.
CARD MRI is a group of 22 institutions driven to end the poverty in the country. CMRBI, together with the other mutually reinforcing institutions under CARD MRI, aims to empower socially and economically challenged women and families by providing them financial services, education, livelihood, microinsurance, health, and other capacity-building programs and services that will help them improve their quality of living.
The locals of Cauayan City benefitted from the various community development programs of CARD MRI, one of which is the healthcare services such as free medical, optical, and dental check-up.Â