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<figure class="op-social"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="350" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oKCnGPplrbs" width="510"></iframe></figure>Here&#x27;s a social enterprise that let&#x27;s you grow your money while helping alleviate the country&#x27;s food security problem.Social enterprise Cropital, a crowdfunding platform which helps farmers get funds, is founded by young Filipinos who want farmers to get the profit they actually deserve for doing the country a big favor.Rachel De Villa, co-founder of Cropital and a Forbes Magazine “30 Under 30 Asia” awardee, said she founded the company after realizing the unmet need of Filipino farmers to gain capital.&quot;We actually dug deep into the agricultural problem here in the Philippines and we found out that majority of the farmers are already too old and they live below the poverty line, and they are the ones producing our food and yet they are the poorest,” she said.“So we’ve come up with a solution called Cropital wherein we will provide them funding but also provide them support for them to improve their lives by improving their productivity as well,” she added.With the tagline of “Grow your money, help our farmers,” De Villa said investment in their social enterprise is a win-win situation both for the investors and the farmers, with the investors growing their money while the farmers earn a big profit.De Villa is inviting everyone to invest, with a minimum of P5,000, in Cropital and gain a return of up to 30 percent.“Cropital is a crowdfunding platform to help finance our farmers so anyone who has purchasing power can go to our website cropital.com to look at the farmers we’re supporting, who are selected thoroughly, and from there they can choose which farm to fund,” she said.She said they have already supported numerous farms and are set to support many others in the pipeline.

Here's a social enterprise that let's you grow your money while helping alleviate the country's food security problem.

'Grow your money, help our farmers': This social enterprise tells you how

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'Grow your money, help our farmers': This social enterprise tells you how

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Published March 11, 2016 07:07 PM PHT

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