YouthWorks Inc. YouthWorks Inc. is the premier organization providing micro-finance to youth in the Philippines. It is a youth-led, fully incorporated non-profit organization providing microfinance loans and a virtual marketplace called ySHOP (COMING SOON) to underprivileged and grassroots youth entrepreneurs.
Youth entrepreneurship. YouthWorks believes that small and medium enterprises are catalysts for a society's economic development. We intend to foster the importance of a developed environment through the creation of livelihood opportunities among society's youngest members.
Youth volunteerism. Youth volunteerism. YouthWorks believes that one of the best mediums to harness the youth's idealism and willingness to take risks is through business. We intend to foster commitment from diverse youth groups.
Responsible Citizenship and Social Responsibility. YouthWorks is driven by the fundamental principle that an enterprise is by law a juridical person such that it has rights as well as duties to the community it exists in. The fulfillment of these rights and duties assures the sustainability of the business itself.
Microfinance is the term for the practice of giving financial services, such as microcredit to poor people in our case Youth. By providing microcredit loans to youth we help them accumulate capital to use in their small business ventures. This expands their employment choices and reduces the risks they face. Most microfinance loans or transactions usually involve small amounts of money, ie the loans are frequently less than US$100.
YouthWorks Inc set to become the key provider of microcredit loans to youth in The Philippines
YouthWorks Inc.'s ultimate goal is to be the premier mobile microfinance
institution providing credit to underprivileged and grassroots youth and women entrepreneurs using ICT for development as a sustainable and practical
solution to poverty and its corresponding social ills at the community-level in the Philippines......
We offer a range of microfinance and business training services to youth in the urban communities of Manila including the following: