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 People's Recovery, Empowerment and Development Assistance Foundation, Inc.
PREDA Fair Trade Assisted Project Across the street from the home of Lucing Pontioso and her daughter Aireen Pelagio is a large two-story warehouse for HP Handicrafts. It was built in 1988 during the boom time of handicrafts. It still holds an extensive inventory of coco leaf products and baskets, as well as the raw material needed to supply producers; but the boom time for handicrafts is over. In the beginning, the grandparents of Aireen Pelagio just gathered crafts from nearby barangays and transported them to Divasora for sale. About 20 years ago Lucing Pontioso and her husband, Horonato, who is now decreased, formally organized it as a business.
At the present time HP Handicrafts facilitates the distribution of job orders and
the marketing for handcrafters in seven barangays in the area. The crafts are
primarily coco-based leaf and bark baskets with coco and buri rope trim, sliced
wood and twig baskets and split rattan baskets. The weavers of the coco products
are predominately men (70%). Material used for the production is purchased
locally from nearby Bicol and Batangas areas, with the coco leaves being from
the immediate area of production. Producers are supplied the needed materials by
HP Handicrafts and then accounted for when determining the price paid for the
item. The designs have been developed over the years, mostly through input from
buyers. HP Handicrafts does not design products themselves.
PREDA
has been assisting in promotion and market development. THEIR PRODUCTS: Coco leaf products 2002 Please e-mail
your feedback and queries
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