Hardin ng Kalikasan, a livelihood project for women, was among Metro Infanta’s first grant recipients thanks to the generosity of the Eleanore Mullen Weckbaugh Foundation. Hardin used the $5, 000 grant to help build a small building to house their production of cards, bookmarks, notebooks, gift tags, bags, fans, paper bead jewelry, and herbal soaps. Their products are made from natural materials including cogon grass, banana trunks, coconut husks and Japanese mulberry.
Sisters Anne Brittain, NDS (in photos below) and Oonah O’Shea, NDS, of Sisters of Our Lady of Sion, in Barangay Kiloloron in the Municipality of Real, Quezon Province, initiated Hardin to provide livelihood activities to the women. Today, their livelihood project has become a multipurpose cooperative, “whose ownership resides among its members.” The cooperative consists of about 43 women. The Sisters of Sion, their friends and family continuously marketed Hardin products by word- of-mouth, reaching the United States and Australia.
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