Mobilize, strengthen, and support communities in the long-term development of their capacities.
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our mission :mobilize, strengthen, and support communities in the long-term development of their capacitites
Strengthening communities enables each individual to exercise their citizenship and advocate for their own rights as well as those of the community in an urban inclusion process.
3 393
participations in community empowerment events *
1
pilot project on Participative Video *
30
civic rights workshops *
The benefits
a more peaceful community to sustainably take control of its future
Community strengthening actions enable residents to become recognized interlocutors by stakeholders and to collaboratively identify the most suitable solutions for essential services in the neighborhood.
and autonomous
The beneficiaries of Better with Water gradually become the drivers of their own empowerment, with rights and skills, by fully participating in the formal economy and contributing to local development.
… and then ?
To address complex challenges, better with water has developed a social entrepreneurship model that sustainably creates social value through the combined efforts of a local organization responsible for community support and a social enterprise providing local services. The enterprise is designed to generate long-term profits, which are reinvested into the social project.
Mandaue is located on Cebu Island, halfway between Manila (on Luzon) and Davao on Mindanao Island. It is situated in the heart of Cebu province and has been considered a highly urbanized city since 1991.
An island exposed to climate risks.
In November 2013, Haiyan, one of the most powerful typhoons ever recorded, struck the Philippine archipelago, particularly impacting the island of Leyte and the city of Tacloban. The United Nations estimated the death toll in Tacloban alone at over 10,000 people.
