For a group of 14 women weavers at a remote village in Sto. Domingo, Albay, necessity is the mother of innovation as they level up their small abaca business to include something that can draw in more buyers —fashion bags. | MaAprilMierINQ /PDI
Established in January 2020 through a P220,000 grant from the Department of Social Welfare and Development, the association is composed of 14 housewives in Sitio Balite of Barangay Alimsog, a coastal community, which, despite being part of the mainland of Sto. Domingo, is more easily accessible via a 30-minute boat ride from the town center.
Brizuela says they pay their debt not in cash, but by working and weaving abaca burlap for the group. “They don’t need to borrow from lending companies to have their own capital, the association provides it for them,” Basanta adds. She says they cannot fully rely on the meager income of her fisherman husband as this livelihood’s success will always depend on weather conditions.
It became urgent for her to find another livelihood after she was retrenched as a room attendant at a hotel in Bacacay town, also in Albay, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
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