Our Partner-Vendors
How it works
The Jeepney Magazine sells for a street price of one hundred pesos. The vendor receives fifty pesos. Twenty-five pesos goes toward printing and twenty-five pesos are used for production costs, vendor training and vendor oversight. It is our goal for each of our vendors to sell a minimum of ten magazines a day, giving them an income exceeding, by forty percent, the Philippine minimum wage.
Vendor management:
Reah Medenilla is a professionally trained and registered social worker with a eight years working with street, homeless and handicapped individuals. She has the responsibility of vendor training, management and care.
You can become a vendor when you:
* Are homeless or vulnerably housed
* Are unemployed or earning below the Philippine minimum wage
* Are 16 years old and above
* Have the desire to change or have a better life
* Attend and complete an initial training period
Once you become a vendor you get to…
* Have ten (10) magazines to sell. This is your start up capital.
* Upon sale of your initial magazines you have the option to buy your next ten, using your start-up capital, for half the cover price.
* Have access to the services we give to our vendors
In Selling The Jeepney Magazine We…
* Issue an ID and/or a shirt, which the vendor will wear when selling the magazine.
* Monitor vendor performance.
* Help find safe legal places for our vendor/partners to sell
* Issue a CMAP ID in addition to a Jeepney ID
Services for Vendors
* Case Management ::
Most if not all of our vendors have multiple complex needs (drugs, homelessness, poverty, relationship problems, etc). Our social workers arrange, coordinate, monitor, evaluate, and advocate for a package of multiple services to meet the specific client’s complex needs.
* Vendor Savings Fund ::
works like a bank where vendors can put a portion of their income. The fund enables vendors to keep safe any money they earn in excess of their daily needs. Vendors deposit a small amount each day and build up their balance. It introduces vendors to a savings culture.
* Seminars ::
in addition to the initial training we give to the vendors, we conduct series of seminars two times a year on financial management, sales, social and moral reformation, drugs and alcohol, and other areas of their lives that need improvement to convince and equip them in leaving the streets and poverty behind.
* Support groups ::
we have a vendor’s monthly meetings where they share and learn from the experiences of each other. We also take this time to know where and how we can help them better.
* Education and Trainings ::
we encourage the vendors to plan for their lives and pursue education or training if they want it. We make referrals to different government and NGOs which provide skills training and alternative learning system (ALS)
* Health ::
We refer the vendors with health problems to local health centers or partner agencies with free medical clinics. Most of these partner agencies also provide free or subsidized medicines.
