PHRN is Joint venture of The Asia Foundation and SHED World Wide
The Asia Foundation is a nonprofit international development organization committed to improving lives across a dynamic and developing Asia. Informed by six decades of experience and deep local expertise, our programs address critical issues affecting Asia in the 21st century—governance and law, economic development, women’s empowerment, environment, and regional cooperation. In addition, our Books for Asia and professional exchange programs are among the ways we encourage Asia’s continued development as a peaceful, just, and thriving region of the world. Headquartered in San Francisco, The Asia Foundation works through a network of offices in 18 Asian countries and in Washington, DC. Working with public and private partners, the Foundation receives funding from a diverse group of bilateral and multilateral development agencies, foundations, corporations, and individuals. In 2014, we provided more than $108 million in direct program support and distributed textbooks and other educational materials valued at over $11 million. Vision of The Asia Foundation is a peaceful, just, and thriving Asia while the mission is to improve lives, expand opportunities, and help societies flourish across a dynamic and developing Asia. It works with innovative leaders and communities to build effective institutions and advance path breaking reforms. Together with its partners, it is committed to Asia’s continued development as a peaceful, just, and thriving region of the world.http://asiafoundation.org/
SHED, with microfinance as its business platform, is a campaign movement to pursue the ambitious dream of a world of individuals and communities free from all forms of poverty and exploitation. Given this huge and complex task, SHED advocates a holistic or an integrated approach to eradicate poverty. Hence SHED, seeks partnership with individuals or institutions whose programs and services are aligned with SHED’s vision. This partnership is forged through the spirit of volunteerism and a shared responsibility. SHED is a membership organization of benefactors (support partners) and beneficiaries (the poor) committed to a world free of poverty. SHED is a non-membership-fee movement. SHED was founded group of people who single-mindedly saw the compelling need for human empowerment among the poor in the face of social degradation, financial exploitation, and moral decay. Underpinned by microfinance and in support of the mission, SHED: Introduces a radical concept of a shared responsibility from a shared vision to eradicate poverty through partnerships with individuals, communities and networks, e.g., local government units, civil society, parishes and other associations. It promotes the concept of membership, without membership fee among the impoverished sector to partner with SHED and commit to a shared responsibility that will shore up their chances to get out of the cycle of poverty through continuing ailment of membership benefits.