Villar launches pay-it-forward’ initiative for Women’s Month

For this year’s Women’s Month, House Deputy Speaker Camille Villar launched the Pasa-Tulong initiative to encourage residents of Las Piñas City to pass acts of kindness to another person and spark the spirit of compassion and generosity.

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The program is adapted from the movie “Pay it Forward,” which introduced the concept that when someone does something good to you, you don’t pay it back but instead pass it on to another person.

The Las Piñas lawmaker picked Librada “Nanay Libreng” Romero, a street sweeper member-volunteer of the Kaagapay sa Kalinisan at Kagandahan ng Las Piñas group, as one of her beneficiaries and gave her a P15,000 capital to open a small sarisari store, which she had long wanted to own.

To pay forward Villar ’s good deed, Nanay Libreng shared part of her earnings from the sari-sari store with her daughter-in-law Elena, who opened her own soft drink retail business. She also let her use a space in her property as storage area for her beverages.