By Victoria Rialp | Monitoring Trustee
The girls of Tahanan Sta. Luisa see themselves becoming entrepreneurs sometime soon. Recent years have seen them honing their sewing skills to produce canvas tote bags, now hand-painted with their artistic designs. Their gardening skills have resulted in grow-kits, herb seedlings, organic fertilizers. Even their art work has been transformed into art notecards and art mugs.
After exhibiting and selling their products at a few small arts and crafts bazaars, the girls are now preparing for the next phase – setting up social enterprises. An international development student from Europe is spending the month of July to organize expert-led in-house workshops by the organization KIDDO+PRENEUR to teach them entrepreneurship and financial literacy skills.
KIDDO+PRENEUR not only teaches kids entrepreneurship and financial literacy skills but organizes sales events for them. Even prior to the training, some girls of Tahanan Sta. Luisa were invited to participate at a recent event at a huge shopping mall – where they spoke about Tahanan Sta. Luisa and their sewing, gardening, and art initiatives, and proudly displayed their products in a colorful booth. Their hand-painted tote bags and herb seedlings were best-sellers! After this happy and successful engagement, the event organizers committed to partner with and support Tahanan Sta. Luisa.
Tahanan Sta. Luisa can only expect more success in setting up viable social enterprises after the July workshops with KIDDO+PRENEUR on entrepreneurship and financial literacy.
By Victoria Rialp | Monitoring Trustee
By Victoria Rialp | Monitoring Trustee
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