Activity Description: Through its Social Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development Services (SEEDS), Unlad Kabayan Migrant Services Foundation, Inc. (Unlad) empowers local communities in the Philippines to develop, operate, and manage sustainable enterprises. A one-stop-shop for business development services, the SEEDS strategy capitalizes on migrant remittances as a source for development financing. Entrepreneurs can use Migrant Savings for Alternative Investments (MS-AI) to start their own businesses or to invest in businesses initiated by Unlad’s Business Incubation Program which provides feasability studies, training, product development, marketing linkages and other support services. When necessary additional funding can be secured through Unlad's Credit Program. Beyond these business services, Unlad regularly conducts seminars and workshops with an emphasis on creating a well informed entrepreneur. As an organization, Unlad has long been an advocate of migrant worker rights and the SEEDS model can be used wherever migrants (an estimated 175 million worldwide) live and work, empowering them as entrepreneurs and creating a sustainable future that does not depend on the temporary and often uncertain nature of migrant labor contracts.