MY STORY

Elvin is the first born son of Mr Virgilio and Mrs Elenita Sierra. His father is a construction worker while his mother is a full time mom. Living on a below average life and being the eldest among 4 boys, he was exposed to do household chores on an early age. During the times when water system is still not yet available in the baranggay, he even needed to fetch water from river/well before going to school. He also have to sell some goods like suman, repacked peanut, yema, etc. just to have allowance or “baon” and even additional source of income to buy food for the next day or for dinner.

As he grows up, there are different types of people who helped and influenced Elvin. Most of them are genuinely and open heartedly help him on his financial needs but some served as his motivation when they put his family down. Just for an instance, there’s someone who told his father that “Being knowledgable is not enough, if you don’t have money, you can’t pursue or complete your son’s college studies.” So during his high school life, he was involved on different academic and extra activities. He was an achiever student and consistently part of the Top 5 of the class since grade school. When it comes to Mathematics  and History contests and quiz bee, he is the one to be called. He even became the representative of Division of Cavite on a Regional  Quiz Bee. He is also active in his Church duties. During weekends and school breaks, he was helping his father on work as construction worker or as a farmer on a pineapple plantations.

On his supposedly last year in college, he was unable to graduate on time because he needed a large amount of money just to complete the prototype of his thesis. He was unhappy and ashamed when his brother need to stop on studying just for him to finish his course. So to pursue his studies, he learned to do things for him to earn money. There were times he worked with his uncle on doing extra work like charcoal(uling) making, electrical installation, digging ten-feet septic tank or “poso-negro”, painting houses, making mausoleum, etc,. He even do some event hosting as clown, hair stylist (barbero) and do some repair works like cellphone, flat iron, electric fan and door knob.

After completing his BS in ECE degree in 7 years, but having good academic records, he was called by an International IT company and he immediately started his work as a Associate Software Engineer on 2006. Knowing that he the first-born and having a good and reputable job, he immediately enrolled both his brothers to college as BS in Accountancy and BS in Information Technology . He managed to survive from P15,000 salary while supporting his family and brothers. With God’s grace and hardwork, he was promoted after a year, and was given another promotion after another 2 years. Then that was the time when his company saw his skills and talent and potential to work with client abroad. So he was given a chance to work in USA twice, in Atlanta,Georgia on 2009 and in Sunnyvale (Silicon Valley), California on 2011. While in USA, he served as the liaison from US Client Team and Manila Team. After his assignment in USA, he was able to renovate their small house into two-storey house. He was able to buy also a motorcycle to be used as transportation on nearby places. His brothers completed their studies also with flying colors. That was the time he started his direct selling business with the help of his IT colleague/friend, who became his wife. After 2 years of doing the business part time, he decided to quit his job for more than 8 years, to focus on their growing business.

Currently, they are managing their business while living in Quezon City. They are distributing and retailing a highest quality nutritional and pharmaceutical products from USA. Their distribution business is currently operating around the Philippines and some Asian countries, and also in US and Canada. They were able to buy a car and a condo unit from their business revenue.

Elvin believed that with Faith, hardwork and Love, nothing is impossible to do. He also believed on Zig Ziglar’s saying that if you help enough other people get what they want, you will get all you want in life.