For an average Filipino household who spends almost 50% of their income to food, this could mean spending more of their time scrounging for food or practically skipping a meal or two in order to make both ends meet. If the situation continues, more children will go undernourished and out of school and more adults will not meet their daily energy requirements to function well not to mention the elderly who can no longer work or subsists day to day with meager income.
To support government’s efforts to help lift households out of poverty, PMI aims to provide additional income opportunities to disadvantaged beneficiaries through technical-vocational skills and microenterprise development.