The Likid Social Development Initiative (Likid Initiative) is an inclusive strategic rural reconstruction project for rural development empowering people for social
transformation through advocacy and implementation of value chain projects and sustainable social enterprise development programs for a sustainable and better Caraga. In honor of the indigenous peoples inhabiting Caraga communities, t
he term Likid was coined from the Mandaya term as an advisory council or title of high leader which heads the Mandaya ethnic group. Mandaya means “inhabitants of the uplands” who are regarded as one of the early settlers in Eastern Mindanao. Launched in 2016, the founder and his family originated from the sitios of Langka and Daw-an in Caraga, Davao Oriental, Philippines raised by the hands of ancestral lineage of poor farmers and tillers. The founder’s social entrepreneurial initiatives emerged from humble-value driven beginning upholding to bring Caraga communities to highly inspired mileage of growing opportunities.
