Ahon Sa Hirap, Inc.

Welcome to the first edition of our website. It has been a long time since we delivered fresh from the oven news and current events in Ahon Sa Hirap, Inc. (ASHI). Our innovations in order to achieve our social goal in the road map for social performance is on the area of "Adaptaion of our Services".

About 80 percent of the Third World population suffer from extreme poverty. In the Philippines, while poverty incidence has seen a reduction in recent years, the number of poor people has remained considerable, with more than a third of the 65 million Filipinos living below the poverty line. With the board vision of helping alleviate poverty in the country, the Ahon Sa Hirap (literally means "rise above )INC. (ASHI) was established.

This website documents ASHI's Grameen banking in the Philippines. It integrates various materials and information concerning ASHI's beginnings, its evolution into an important Non-Government Organization (NGO), its successes and challenges over the last 20 yeras and provides a board stroke on how it envisions to rise further in the years ahead. It is hoped that this website will serve its purpose not only in providing readers an overview of ASHI as an institution but also in opening opportunities for various groups and individuals wanting to be involved in pursuit of poverty eradication in the Philippines through their own efforts or through impossible cooperative ventures with ASHI.Many will have mission drift, but for ASHI, we will continue to innovate, upholding the groups and center as bloodstream to make dreams alive and members live out of the bondage of poverty.

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