05/08/2026
๐ฟGlow-Care as part of the EmpowerHer for AVC | Advancing Gender Equality and Care-Responsive Agricultural Value Chains ๐ฟ
Meaningful change begins with meaningful conversations.
GlowCorp is grateful to have successfully conducted another Glow-Care session as part of the EmpowerHer for AVC workshop on Gender Equality, Women's Economic Empowerment (WEE), Unpaid Care and Domestic Work (UCDW), and Care-Responsive Practices with our valued AVC partner, Don Bosco MPC, in collaboration with the Tubon Coconut Farmers Cooperative, held at the Don Bosco Foundation for Sustainability Inc. in Batasan, Makilala, North Cotabato.
The workshop served as a platform for participants to deepen their understanding of gender equality, recognize the value of unpaid care and domestic work, and explore practical ways to create more inclusive, equitable, and care-responsive organizations and communities. Through open dialogue, reflection, and shared experiences, participants reaffirmed that empowering women and engaging men as partners in care are vital to building stronger families, resilient cooperatives, and sustainable agricultural value chains.
Our heartfelt appreciation goes to Don Bosco MPC, Tubon Coconut Farmers Cooperative, and the Don Bosco Foundation for Sustainability Inc. for your warm hospitality, active participation, and unwavering commitment to advancing gender-responsive and inclusive development. Your dedication demonstrates that lasting transformation is achieved when organizations work together with a shared vision of equality, dignity, and opportunity for all.
This learning activity is part of the EmpowerHer: Embedding Gender Equality in Business Praxis of MSMEs in the Philippines project, implemented by the Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia (ISEA) in partnership with Oxfam Pilipinas and Present Coalition, with support from the Australian Government's Investing in Women initiative. Through this collaboration, MSMEs and agricultural value chain partners continue to strengthen their capacity to integrate gender equality, women's economic empowerment, and care-responsive practices into their workplaces and communities.
As we continue our EmpowerHer journey across agricultural value chains, each workshop strengthens a growing movement of partners committed to recognizing, reducing, and redistributing unpaid care work while creating workplaces where women and men can participate, lead, and succeed on equal footing.
Together, we are not only cultivating cropsโwe are cultivating equality, shared responsibility, and a future where care is valued, opportunities are inclusive, and every community can flourish.
Maraming salamat to all our partners, facilitators, and participants for walking this journey with us. Together, we continue to plant the seeds of changeโone conversation, one community, and one agricultural value chain at a time. ๐๐ฑ