Pilmico and Aboitiz Foundation’s Life Sacks Project helps save the environment while empowering women through livelihood opportunities and skills training. The initiative was recently launched in Taguig City with the turnover of six sewing machines with tables and chairs, sewing kits, and 1,500 used Pilmico sacks to the Sewers for Equity and Welfare Producers Cooperative, the project’s first beneficiary.
The materials will start-up the all-women’s association in making recyclable bags. These “Life Sacks Project” bags aims to create a more sustainable value chain of collection, recycling, and effective deployment of used Pilmico sacks by tapping local sewing groups nationwide to repurpose the used sacks into recyclable bags, which provide them with additional income.
“We thank Pilmico and Aboitiz Foundation for choosing our coop as beneficiary. It is a great blessing to be given these sewing machines. It is definitely a great help both to the women of our coop and our families,” shared Cristeta Estabillo, chairman of the sewers group.