Kasimanwa Ko

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HISTORY
One weekend on October 2006, three OFW Romblomanons working in Saudi Arabia were watching a TFC cable (The Filipino Channel) broadcast, about overseas Filipino organizations raising funds for various needy individuals & charities in the Philippines. It made a great impact on them and served as the inspiration to come up with the Kasimanwako Association.

Other Romblomanons (both overseas and based in the Philippines) were soon contacted, brainstormed thru emails, chatrooms and text messages. The proposal was met with great enthusiasm and on January 7, 2007, a Friendster account (http://www.friendster.com/36914096) was created thereby officially giving birth to the association. Invitations were then forwarded to some more Kasimanawa's through the internet, thus having the first respondents form the core of the founding members.

KasimanwaKo was chosen as official name to emphasize the resulting unity of the members, despite coming from three different municipalities of Sibuyan Island, Romblon. The name derives from two words, "Kasimanwa" which is Ilongo dialect word for "living in the same town" and followed by the possessive pronoun "Ko" , which simply means "my."

VISION
KasimanwaKo envisions itself taking a significant role in making education available to those who could simply not afford it, while at the same time improving the quality of education provided to school children of Sibuyan Island especially those from the poor families.

MISSION
KasimanwaKo shall provide educational assistance to the less fortunate and deserving school children of Sibuyan Island.

This account intends to unite all long lost friends, relatives, classmates and Kasimanwas purposely to provide help/assistance in any way possible to our needy kasimanwas back in Sibuyan Island.