Andam Eba 2.0

It has been known to many that unintended pregnancy has one of the prevalent issues in this time of pandemic. According to UP Population institute in 2020, a number of 751,000 unintended pregnancies could be expected in the Philippines by the end of 2020. For some, the thought of unintended pregnancy during and even before the pandemic has already been a predicament especially when an individual is financially unstable to provide for his/her child/ren. It is undeniable that a lot of Filipinos today are experiencing financial hardships due to lack of income-generating opportunities and extreme poverty brought by the pandemic. One of the sectors who were heavily financially affected due to their untimely parenting are the 53 City Scholars mothers who while in the program have succumbed to early parenting while thriving to maintain their grades as a scholar. Majority of the said number might only have one child, but are also solo moms who are not only struggling as a breadwinner and as a care-giver in the family but also belongs to the current number of 14 million solo moms that were identified by the World Vision Health in 2020. Now, these scholar mothers are faced with the problems of providing not only for their academic needs like online access but also provide for their children or family in the midst of the pandemic. Addressing the need for financial struggles of scholar-mothers who are also vulnerable to the retention process, the city scholarship office and project Andam Eba holds true to its mantra that uplifts every scholar towards their academic success and no one must be left behind. 

Andam Eba is a capability-building and financial-enabling project for 53 scholar-mothers who were assessed by the City Scholarships Office as vulnerable in this time of pandemic and are mostly affected by the down-ward slope of the economy. Throughout the 6 months implementation of Andam Eba, the project aims to provide skills-training of scholar-mothers and to teach them about the basics of starting up a business in the new normal for them to sustain their scholarship and to provide their own needs and the needs of their children. The project will be divided into 5 phases namely: 

a.) Ang pagsabot kay Eba (A community scanning and data gathering)

b.) Pag-igmat ky Eba Series (A capability-building series) 

c.) Pagdumala ni Eba (Business pitching and online selling) 

d.) Pagpadayun ni Eba (Business consultation and monitoring of the business)

e.) Paglambo ni Eba (Legalization of the business and culminating activity)

The project will be implemented within the city of Cagayan de oro and will be utilizing resources such as but not limited to human resources, monetary resources, and technical inputs to turn its objectives into a reality. By the end of this project, the said beneficiaries will not only be provided with the livelihood but at the same time the skills needed for them to sustain their livelihood and to maintain their scholarships.