Thru: Hon Gregorio Ricarte
Municipal Mayor

Dear Honorable Members:

Wishing You All the best as we get into the new calendar year, 2009 with renewed enthusiasm in the transformation of Oas into a town that we all deserve.

A status quo is not good for our town; it’s what it will become, as it overcomes the obstacles necessary to achieving its short and long-term goals that can give it the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment and progress.

But when shall we start? There is a time when we must firmly choose the course which we will follow or the endless drift of evetns will make the deicision for us. ANKO Inc – Oas Micro Finance and OPAP (Oas Poverty Alleviation Program) has chosen to take action now, to be a partner in this transformation now.

Quoting OMF Rationale - the reasons that gave birth to the OMF/OPAP:

“ . . .the degree and persistence of poverty in our town, the dearth of economic opportunities, the hunger of Oasnon for a better way of life, the eagerness of caring from those who are in a position to make a difference and our respond to make better the lives of those less fortunate . . . and what better place to start than in our own backyard.”

At the induction ceremonies of the OMF On-Site Management Officers and Staff, Mayor Gregorio Ricarte had outlined some of the programs of the LGU- Oas that are within the tenets of the Oas Micro Finance foremost of which is the P500, 000.00 allocation from the Mayor’s discretionary funds earmarked for micro finance.

It is for this reason that we request your unequivocal support to the Mayor’s proposal to have ANKO Inc – OMF/OPAP take the lead in the planning and implementation of the projects to be funded from this appropriation. Rest be assured that transparency and accountability will be apparent in the administration of this fund, as they are the cornerstones of the OMF.

Moreover, we shall abide by the prescribed processes in the disbursement of the said fund. Mr. Melvin Romano, On-Site Management Group of the Oas Micro Finance in his follow-up meeting with Mayor Gregorio Ricarte, has personally relayed such commitment

OMF believes that to undertake something difficult will do us good, for unless we try to do something beyond what we have already achieved, we will never grow. There is no turning back; the only time we should look back is to look at the positive things that were accomplished to encourage us to do better things today and tomorrow.

With this note, we thank the Honorable Members of the Sangguniang Bayan of Oas and the Honorable Mayor in spearheading this tie-up between the LGU-Oas and the OMF. Your support to the ANKO Inc - Oas Micro Finance/OPAP will go a long way to advance the cause of the poor. We remain,

Very Truly Yours,

Javier R. Romano
On-behalf of the On-Site and Off-Site Core Groups
ANKO Inc- OMF/OPAP