What hinders Filipinos from acquiring Prosperity?

[guiller]

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tulo ka ugat-babag ngano nga wala mu ansenso ang pilipinas.

una, ang iyang pagka "alang alang kolonyall"

ikaduha, ang iyang pagka " alang alang kolonyal"

ikatulo, ang "burukrata-kapitalismo"

ang mga pilipino kugihan. dipatuo pod ta nga ang atong mentalidad mauy naka angin ngano dili ta muasinso.

ang atong kunong kultura mau pod kuno usa ka hingnungdan ngano pobre ta, por suwayan apg tan-aw ang atong katilingban, maua ang tulo nga naka-ingon sa aton ka pobrehon.

[dredd41v576]

Politics, too much politics.

[SamuraiArcher]

ang mga oposisyon............

[off^tangent]

we're a nation of stone worshippers, literally and figuratively.

[wanderlust]

Many of us are content with simply blaming the government for our poverty. We were not placed on this earth to simply wait for opportunities to be handed to us on a silver platter. Also, most of us have been raised with the employee mentality. Look at the Chinese and Japanese. From childhood their business skills are already being honed. Having a college degree is no guarantee that one will be successful. We have to be more business-minded. Look at this lady who finally made it from being a domestic helper for nine years to the business tycoon that she is now.

Maid in London returns home a multimillionaire

By Emman Cena
Inquirer
Last updated 06:14pm (Mla time) 12/19/2006

COME CHRISTIMAS time, Filipino workers around the world are likely packing goods in a box.

Back home, the air is filled with the scent of "Stateside" lotion, soaps, chocolates and the whiff of Americana deliciously trapped inside what have come to be known as balikbayan boxes.

To 59-year old Consuelo Valencia, the concept of the balibayan box inspired her to put up the Farochilen Group of Companies 10 years ago. The business venture eventually earned her millions.

No fairy tale
But the success of Manang Consuelo, as she's fondly called by friends was hardly a fairy tale at the start. It took courage for her to fly to London in May 1977 to work as a domestic helper.

She left her two young sons in the care of her husband who himself was trying to make ends meet.

Armed with the ambition and determination to give her family the best that life can offer, she rose from scrubbing floors to being one of most the most successful Filipino businesswomen in the United Kingdom.

"It was a matter of survival and sacrifice for me and my family," says Manang Consuelo, who arrived last week to spend the holidays with her family.

But the sacrifice eventually paid off. Several newspapers in the UK had carried her story on how a cleaner became a millionaire in 10 years.

How it all began
Her reversal of fortune started in 1986 when after nine years of scrubbing floors in London, Manang Consuelo was offered a job with a freight shipping firm.

"At that time, nobody was doing business with the Philippines," she says, "But I realized there were many people here (UK) who wanted to send parcels to their families."

When the owner of the firm retired, the business was handed down to her. Through her excellent PR skills and her determination to succeed, she managed to bring the company on top of the heap with an ever-growing list of customers.

The company now collects boxes and T chests from individual customers across the United Kingdom. Manang Consuelo says their weekly shipment averages 40 containers shipped door-to-door delivery to the Philippines. This time of the year is the busiest, she says, since the movement of the balikbayan boxes is at its peak.

Also in 1986, Manang Consuelo ventured in a door to door cash delivery service through the Farochilen Remittances.

"With Filipinos in the UK sending money once or twice a month to support their families back home, this is a perfect venture," she says. By offering a reliable face-to-face speedy delivery, high exchange rates and low remittance fees, Manang Consuelo gives the banks a run for their money.

Not content with the success of the remittance and freight business, in 1996 she also embarked on travel services, phone card dealership, real estate, recruitment and publishing house--all of which she never imagined she could ever have.

In just 10 years, the Earls Court-based freight (cargo) company expanded into a wide range of business venture now known as Farochilen Group of Companies, the biggest business of its kind servicing mainly the Filipino community in the UK.

Now its managing director, Manang Consuelo supervises the freight company and its subsidiaries including the widely known travel agency that mainly deals with flights to Asia, Singapore and the Philippines. She now also owns four house-buildings in London.

Tatak Filipino
She also launched Tatak Filipino in October 2002, a mini-supermarket specializing in food stuff imported from the Philippines and the Far East.

Once serving a single household doing household chores, Manang Consuelo, through her chain of businesses, now serves the whole Filipino community in UK.

But serving her fellow Filipinos doesn't end there. She has donated three libraries here in the Philippines, a Catholic chapel and classrooms in Iloilo--her way of giving back, she says.

With an outstanding profile as a business tycoon who rose from poverty, Manang Consuelo has earned for herself accolades here and abroad, recognizing her dedication to work.

She placed 11th in the 100 REAL Women of Achievement in UK in 2004 and also won the Woman into Businesss Awards sponsored by the Bank of Scotland in February 2003.

To date, the rags-to-riches story of Manang Consuelo has attracted various film producers and TV networks. In the UK, a known writer has offered to write about her life while the British Broadcasting Company will soon shoot a documentary film about her.

Manang Consuelo arrived Friday night straight from London to receive her award as one of the outstanding Overseas Filipino Entrepreneurs (OFEs) sponsored by the Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship (PCE). The award was given yesterday by President Arroyo and Presidential Consultant for Entrepreneurship Jose Concepcion III at the "Go Negosyo Para sa mga OFWs at Balikbayans Fair" at Market! Market! Trade Halls A & B in Taguig City.

Go Negosyo awardee
The "Go Negosyo" para sa mga OFWs at Balikbayans is part of the continuing Go Negosyo campaign of PCE, encouraging the further development of entrepreneurship in the country. It also aims to complement the happiness of OFWs getting reunited with their families by exposing them to business opportunities.

The 59-year old is now a multimillionaire. Indeed, 29 years after leaving her family to become a maid in London, Manang Consuelo is literally made.

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We are personally responsible for our destinies. Not the government, not other people. We have to stop thinking that we are mere victims of circumstances and cannot do anything to better our lives.

[doki]

after reading this thread, i reflected on myself, on why im still in this igo-igo ra na sweldo na job. kung nganong wa ko palit pa og akong own house and lot og wala pa jud koy business unya wala pa jud ni asenso....? ang akong pasangil:

• Religion - manoktok dayon imong conscience if naa kay buhaton na huna2x nimo supak sa gitudlo sa simbahan
• our Geography - naay koy gusto na paliton sa baguio og davao, kaso mahal kaau pa ship
• i Procrastinate - among mga clients (sa akong gitrabahoan) sige lang nako saaran na "ugma nalang nako ayohon imong makina sir" bisan kaya pa nako, ang result; daghan na nuon kaau kog buluhaton sunod adlaw
• i break the rules - naay no stopping anytime na sign? anha ko mo para og jeep. naay no jaywalking sa fuente rotunda? anha ko

mulabang.

of course, i speak for myself. but how many of you do/experience this? we can never can tell. 20 years from now(procastinating).. if i put my heart into it. add more blood and sweat. ma millionaryo nako.. ambot oi!

lets be solutions lang in our own little way...we can do it lagi for our country.
heroes nowadays aren't larger than life, but they do the little things that we don't even notice them.[/list]

[kr1st1n3]

lack of education. i don't think its true anymore that Philippines have 80% literacy rate. the government should invest more on education. juan is getting left behind.

[*dudes*]

they stop learning new things especially on asset building

[Redeyes]

Entrepreneurship is the key to be economically well off, but since most Filipinos aspire to be workers, instead of aspiring to be entrepreneurs.

[*dudes*]

Entrepreneurship is the key to be economically well off, but since most Filipinos aspire to be workers, instead of aspiring to be entrepreneurs.

i agree