Teodorico Pena presents how Quidan Kaisahan used microfinance initiatives to imporve agricultural economic growth opportunities for their beneficiaries (Jan 30, PACAP Community Development Forum: Microfinance Amidst the Global Financial Crisis).

3. QK focuses on community-driven development and empowerment to reach the un-reached, under-served and assist in improving the standard of living of the poorest of the poor in Negros Occidental. QK in Negros Occidental

4. Since 12 years ago, QK has been trying to reach out to, and serve the poorest of the poor: the marginalized farmers & farm workers, poor women, and child laborers & their families.

21. “ Every human being, no matter how ignorant or submerged in the culture of silence, s/he may be, is capable of looking critically at his/her world in a dialogical encounter with others. Provided with the proper tools for such encounter, s/he can gradually perceive his/her personal and social reality as well as the contradictions in it, become conscious of his/her own perception of that reality, and deal critically with it.” - Paolo Freire