GdV launches bayong and bag-making project
MANAY GINA REPORTS
SAN JACINTO–A big boost to Mother Earth and to the income of unemployed housewives and mothers.
This is what the Bayong and Bag-Making Project organized in San Jacinto by Fourth District Rep. Gina de Venecia aims to achieve with the backing of Philip Morris-Fortune Tobacco Corporation and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).
The project, participated in initially by 50 housewives from the San Jacinto Municipal Livelihood Association, will produce bags from farm wastes teeming in the town like cornhusks and banana shedding, and buri that is growing abundantly in some barangays.
With the DTI helping the association write their project proposal, De Venecia went to tap Philip Morris to provide a financial assistance of P400,000 while the Jaime V. Ongpin Foundation will handle the training of housewives in making quality bayong and bags.
A memorandum of agreement that officially kicked off the project was signed last Monday by De Venecia, San Jacinto Mayor Robert de Vera, Arnaldo Carino of Philip Morris, Marichu Lopez of Jaime V. Ongpin Foundation, Celia Castillo of DTI Dagupan and Lory Aquino, representing the recipient association.
Under the MOA, Philip Morris will also look for markets of the finished products both locally and abroad.
Castillo said the bayongs that would be produced by the association will replace plastic bags being used by housewives in their marketing and shopping; while the bags could potentially generate big income, especially if marketed abroad.
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