AURORA, Zamboanga del Sur—Aurora Integrated Multi-Purpose Cooperative was adjudged the Most Outstanding Cooperative-Best in Membership Growth and Expansion category among the country’s 24,000 registered cooperatives.
Its manager, Pacenciano Tomarong, was named Most Outstanding Cooperative Leader during the Gawad Parangal Cooperative Development Authority Day in Manila, a top CDA official said.
CDA chairman Orlando Ravanera handed to Tomarong the two national awards of GPCDA, a recognition for cooperatives, local government units, partner organizations and co-op officers for their exemplary performance, best practices and good governance and in giving responsive services to the people and community.
Tomarong attributed these awards to the 48-year-old AIMPC’s personnel “for excellently performing their job, helping promote the co-op’s image and the members’ continued trust in us,” stressing that the co-op’s main mission “is to serve the community in a friendly manner.”
He said employees of AIMPC, now with 72 offices nationwide with over one million members, are mandated by law “to be most accountable and responsible persons to protect the co-op’s investment.”
The co-op’s products and services for its members include loans, savings, cash express and free funeral services, Tomarong said, adding it also established ATM machines in its branches to promote cashless society even as it established Eskwela Kooperatiba in every school to encourage student cooperative participation.
Tomarong said that stressing its personnel’s harmonious relationship with each other is vital to its success.