Cynthia Villar

Senatorial candidate and former Las Piñas Rep. Cynthia Villar has endorsed the candidacies of four Negros Occidental candidates.

These are 5th Dist. Board Member Emilio "Dino" Yulo III, Bacolod councilors Caesar Distrito and Carlos Jose Lopez, with Migz Estrella, who are members of the Nacionalista Party (NP).

Senatorial candidate, Mrs. Cynthia Villar of Team PNoy, further unveiled key pro-people programs, she had earlier vowed to implement once elected as a member of the Senate in the 2013 election during interviews in-between the senatorial slate’s stop in Bacolod, and whistle-stop campaigns in three cities in Northern Negros yesterday. She graced rallies in Talisay, Silay and Victorias Cities.

Villar first spoke in a gathering of thousands of people including LP women in the convention center in the Bacolod Pavillon site. Caña supporters, LP women also thronged the area.

She also said that she would return to the city and province and implement livelihood projects for the population here. There is a guarantee that Villar, who exuded an aura of gentleness and kindness will make it to the Senate, because in numerous poll surveys done by reputable research groups, she has swung from number five to number seven. She also rates high in the Visayas provinces.

After the successful ‘1st OFW & Family Summit 2011: Kabuhayan Para sa Kinabukasan’ that attracted over 5,000 participants, the Villar Foundation and GoNegosyo will hold the ‘2nd OFW & Family Summit 2012: Hanep Na Ang Buhay Dahil May Hanap Buhay’ for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and their families at the World Trade Center in Pasay City, from 7am to 4pm.

2nd OFW AND FAMILY SUMMIT 2012. 　Villar Foundation Managing Director Cynthia Villar inviting OFWs and their families to join the　recently-concluded 2nd　OFW & Family Summit 2012 held on Nov. 22, at　World Trade Center in Pasay City from 7am to 4pm. It enabled the learning of entrepreneurship to gain business ideas and livelihood opportunities. With Villar are GoNegosyo Founder Joey Concepcion and GoNegosyo Exec. Director Ramon Lopez.*

"We have seen how the first OFW summit has helped many of our OFWs and their relatives, so we will keep on doing this. Many of them have applied what they have learned from the talks they listened to, by putting up small businesses such as food stalls or venturing into franchising and direct selling among others," said Cynthia Villar, Managing Director of the Villar Foundation.

Senatorial candidate and former Congresswoman Cynthia Villar has encouraged various cooperatives and associations in their culmination meeting at the Talisay City hall to make Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) which can be done with a maximum amount of success because, in fact, 90 percent of businesses in the country, is composed of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Micro-Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and cooperatives such as those, having been organized in Talisay City, and which the participants have established, Villar told the participants during the conference that they have a big role in economic development.