Inspiring Story of LEDP partner, Cablangan

Since the start of the Local Economy Development Program (LEDP) in Brgy. Cablangan, Ericson Matias has been one of the active and excellent members of the Cablangan Livelihood Association Inc. (CLA Inc.).

He is one of the first members that have benefited the program of SPPI. The Livelihood Assistance Program or LCP has helped him a lot, especially in his daily needs. In this program he received loans amounting to Php. 10,000 pesos. He used his loans for his sari-sari store and the sustainability of his business he engage to hog fattening too.

Because of his good performance of paying his loans, he was recommended by the officers and members of CLA to avail the new program introduced by SPPI for entrepreneurial poor. Ericson is one of the good recipients of this program now, and a good payer too. For him, he has a stable income thanks to the program of SPPI.

As of now, he focused on the expansion of his business and the hog fattening and he plans to buy more pigs to be brought up, then build a wider pig pen. Because of his stable income, he already built his own house and sends to school his siblings.

According to him good dealings and handwork, and faith in God why he achieved all this in his life.

By Alma Saliente,
CDW, (Brgy. Cablangan, Mondragon, Northern Samar)