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For four years now, we at Bayan Academy have welcomed Citi volunteers year-round to serve as trainers and mentors to high potential microentrepreneurs in the Philippines.

For 10 years, Rosemarie and Alex have been at the helm of a 12-year-old enterprise selling native handicrafts, which in turn is helping plain housewives and young women in Lucban, Quezon who weave buri and pandan leaves into fashionable bags.  Their business Marilex Handicrafts was the offshoot of Rosemarie’s training with Bayan Academy’s Citi-Bayan Entrep Eskwela program, where she was part of Batch 3 in 2012.