The year ending 2011 have seen great ups and downs for the Nova Foundation for Differently Abled Persons Inc. Once again, grants from the principal funders of the Foundation were tremendously reduced for the fourth consecutive year. However, new foreign donors especially from the With Your Aid company and new local donors helped somewhat alleviate the shortfall in funding the programs and projects of Nova Foundation.

The Training Center had to be transferred to a new venue due to increased rates in the old buliding. The data encoding operations, the income generating activity of the Foundation,experienced severe volume cut downs from its primary account.

But for the trainee-graduates of the Foundations' ICT Training, It had been a rather very fruitful year. Of the total 625 graduates, 434 are currently employed in the private and public sectors, a 69% success ratio in employing fraduates.

Inroads have been made anew in the call center industry with the signing of a lead generation agreement with a multinational company last November 2011 and 2 more agreements to be finalized within the first quarter of this year.

The Foundation plans to aggressively seek new opportunities for its graduates for the year 2012 by pursuing more institutional tie-ups with employer confederations and groups. The plan is to achieve an aggregate level of 75% - 80% in employment ratio for the year 2012.

The Foundation intends to add introduce a new course for the differently abled persons specifically in the field of computer animation. Discussions with animation companies have been going on since the last quarter of 2011 and prospects are bright indeed that help from these companies will be forthcoming in terms of training and materials.

With the help of the Almighty God, the Trustees, the officers and staff of the Foundation, we hope and pray that we will be able to provide more service to the least of our brothers and sister.

MANUEL V. AGCAOILI
President and Trustee