Empowering sari-sari store owners. A total of 1,627 sari-sari store owners from Samar and Leyte provinces graduated in the PREMIUM Project on January 24, 2019 at Leyte Academic Center, Palo, Leyte. At the graduation, Dr. Jaime Aristotle B. Alip, founder and chair emeritus of CARD Mutually Reinforcing Institutions (CARD MRI), led the presentation of the PREMIUM graduates symbolic turnover of the project’s advocacy.