1834 Brgy. Malabanban Sur, Candelaria, Quezon Province
Background:
The Lingkod Banahaw Multi-Purpose Cooperative (LBMC) started and registered at Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) on January 13, 1998 with CDA Registration Number LGA-3343 with initial members of 15 Persons With Disability members. About half of our first members came from the Luther Cooperative, an offshoot of a community-based rehabilitation program supported by CBMI. Ron Brouillette, an American member of CBMI, worked with LBMC from 1995 to 1999. He was a deaf specialist assigned with the program for the deaf in our community.
The general purposes of LBMC why we formed into cooperative are to engage in Livelihood projects, in order to improve socio-economic condition of handicapped persons in Quezon Province. And our secondary purpose is to uplift the life among all the members. Its main line of business is school armchair production.
At the beginning, LBMC were based in an old school in Candelria, Quezon. One of our memorable experiences was when our cooperative served as the host during Our Federation’s Founding Assembly in 1998. our members live in their own houses because we do not have a permanent workshop. We usually rent a temporary workplace whenever we participate in school chair contracts entered into by our Federation.
At present, LBMC has still 21 Persons With Disability (PWD) members but we are still recruiting or encouraging other PWD’s to join in our cooperative.
The objectives of our cooperatives are as follows: (1) To encourage thrift and savings mobilization among the members; (2) To create funds in order to grant loans for productive and providential purposes to its members; (3) To provide goods and services and other requirements to the members; (4) To undertake agricultural and / or industrial production purposes; (5) Link up with cooperative movement and other NGOs; (6) Help market the products of members; (7) engage in other related activities for our members to improve their social and/ or economic well-being and undertake other activities for efficient and effective implementation of the provision of the cooperative code.
Clearly enough, LBMPC has backlogs in terms of achieving its objectives. At present, our key tasks include that of looking for a more permanent workplace, strengthening our present membership and reaching out to more PWDs in other parts of Quezon Province.
- Chairman : Mr. Alfredo Aguilar
- Manager : Mr. Pablo Aranas