The Birth of KILUS Foundation

August of 1997 > then Barangay Chairman Alejandro E. Santiago, a man with a very strong political will encouraged his wife Editha C. Santiago to organize a volunteer group of women mostly housewives called “Samahan ng mga Kababaihan ng Ugong” SKU as partners for the Clean and Green project of the Barangay Council.

November 19, 1998 - the SKU adapt and registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission a new name “KILUS” composed of more than five hundred (500) strong women force.

In every zone, one coordinator and one deputy coordinator is assigned together with ten (10) “Zone” leaders, to monitor and lead in the cleanliness of their respective areas.

This partnership got positive result when at the end of December 1999, Ugong was awarded first place as the Cleanest and Greenest Barangay in Pasig City.

Through the collective efforts of this women organization, Ugong maintained its title as the Cleanest and Greenest barangay in Pasig until at present.

In February 19, 1999, KILUS launched its pet project “BAWAS BASURA DAGDAG KITA” (BBDK). At the end of the year, December 1999, Ugong earned the title of “The Cleanest and Greenest Barangay along Pasig, Marikina and San Juan River” sponsored by the clean and green foundation of Mrs. Ming Ramos. Barangay Ugong was awarded one million pesos (P1, 000,000.00) for this title.

“KILUS” then focus on livelihood projects for its members. The search for livelihood opportunities from garbage started. The Ugong Barangay Council together with KILUS campaigned every purok household to segregate and sell their recyclables to KILUS. UBC, provided for push carts, weighing scale for buying the household scraps and all recyclable items in the community. They helped in the set up of an Ecology Center in the Barangay Hall Compound.

KILUS members shared whatever amount they can afford as starting capital. KILUS buyers wear color-coded uniforms and proper identification card. Color of the uniforms depend on the purok assigned to them with an allowance of Php 75.00 per collector/buyer for Ugong Proper and Php 100.00 for Valle Verde. However, BBDK is limited to a very few members of KILUS and still many more are in need of additional income.

In continuing search for livelihood opportunities, a seminar was held at DAP (Development Academy of the Philippines) at Tagaytay City, the budget taken out of the Php 1M allocation award money by the Clean and Green Foundation. Noted speaker Dr. Meliora of Zero Kalat sa Kaunlaran (ZKK) should useful items and one that attracted our attention is a tiny doy pack bag from discarded zesto juice. Barangay Chairman Santiago pursued for the development of different style of products from doy packs through his livelihood staff. Chairman Andy became the model and promoter of the product wearing and bringing said products to his peers in the environmental circle. This product of Ugong attracted media attention and was featured in newspapers and TV shows. Thus, when buyers kept coming in – the Barangay turnover the technology and commercial scale production to KILUS.

In 2001 KILUS branched into a Multipurpose Environmental Cooperative group duly registered with the Cooperative Development Authority. The much needed big break came when DTI-Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions (CITEM), Special Projects Chief Vivian Castillon exposed the product in the Manila F.A.M.E. International Trade Show. With all these, the doy pack products found a significant foreign market from Japan, USA, Denmark, etc. contributing a little to our economy.

The Profitability of the KILUS doy packs venture for the environment and for the members.

Today, KILUS is a beneficiary of TESDA who lent tools and equipment, a Php 200,000.00 loan granted by Mayor Soledad C. Eusebio’s Cooperative Assistance Project, Pasig City and another Php 200,000.00 loan from Senator Rodolfo Biazon. These loans were used to purchase additional high speed sewing machine and 80 families being helped by the production of doy packs. It has become sort of an extended family enterprise. The members has its own assignment: the pulot brigade which circles around Pasig City and other cities in Metro Manila buying the doy packs from funeral homes, cemeteries, schools, residential houses, wakes, dumpsites and whoever calls up with their doy packs. The linis brigade are those who wash and sanitized the doy packs in 3 stages and dry them. The mananahi or sewers brigade are those who earned the most from Php 2,000.00 to Php 3,000.00 a week. With school days around, the financial burden of their children are solved.

With more than a million pieces of discarded doy packs bought and still needed to transform them into bags we save mother earth from these wastes going to our drainage systems dumpsites and water bodies.

Do your part, collect them and sell them to us, the KILUS Multipurpose Environmental Cooperative at 36 C. Santos St., Ugong, Pasig City.

Product Line & Style

Beads
From colored magazines rolled-up and turned into variety of sizes with variety of colors. Can make different fashion accessories like earrings, bracelette and necklace. Even bags, frame designs and a lot more.


Classic Style
This is the first and the original style ever made by Kilus that brought the success. By sewing the different doypacks altogether to form different styles of bags. From the basic small size wallet to shopping bags, to beach bags, curtains, placemats, trash bags and even footwears.

Classic Strips
From the back side of the doypack roll comes the folded strips. Sewn together to form a different and more elegant design. Because the other side of the doypack is silver in color, this made our products more saleable.

Classic Boxes and Frames
Doypack rolls are pasted in a customized-sized board that made these beautiful boxes extra ordinary. Designs can be in plain doypacks, in strips, even weave. Same with the frames that comes in different sizes also.

Woven Designs
The folded strips are then used to weave different styles of bags, placemat, coasters, belt, keyrings, pencil holders and a lot more to mention. The idea of weaving the strips brought Kilus again big sales to clients.

Rice Sacks
After continous research in different recyclable materials, here came up another raw material that can be used to make bags and other products. The used rice sacks.

SOURCE:

Telefax: (632) 671-2834
Address: (Office & Showroom):
36 C. Santos St. Ugong, Pasig City 1604 Philippines

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Address: (Branch & Showroom)
Tiendesitas Fashion Village Section
Frontera Verde, Ortigas Avenue, Corner C-5,
Ugong, Pasig City Philippines

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The company's name is derived from the initials of its proprietor Judith E. Reyes who is based in Cebu City. J.E.R. Shell Crafts started as a cottage industry 20 years ago with 3 workers then. As of today, the company has gained a strong foothold in the business world of shell craft and fasion accessories with an estimated 30 crafty workers and still GROWING. J.E.R. Shell Craft Creations Int'l., is a manufacturing and distributing company of high quality fashion accessories exclusively made from shells like bracelets, earrings, hairdress, belts, necklaces, etc., in a very consumer-friendly prices. In some occasion or by demand, we also make home decorative items.

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Naga was so blessed not only for having The Nuestra Señora de Peñafrancia and even the late DILG Secretary Jesse Robredo but also for having Baycrafts Jewelry that can provide source of living for local Bicolanos.

Baycrafts Jewelry started as past time by a young bicolana named Marianne Olano, a graduate of Development Communications from Ateneo de Naga University. Later this passion had turn into business. On 2004, Baycrafts was founded and accepted some orders. This products included wired necklace and bracelets made from copper, crystals and pearls. They even also venture into crocheted jewelry such as arm cuffs made from cotton, yard and beads. The latest products that they have are barefoot sandals made from waxed cord, shells and acrylic beads.

Today, Baycrafts was really proud for being a Philippine home grown company that penetrated the world market through the help of social networking sites. The company is a member of Naga's One Town One Product(OTOP)by the Department of Trade and Industry, a government program that will highlight entrepreneurs with their unique regional products.



SOURCE:


BAYCRAFTS ACCESSORIES
Naga City

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Laminated capiz collection in black multicircles outline and plain black multicircles design. COLOR: Natural base

Manila Welcome Industrial Corporation is a handicraft export company established in January 1989. The Company was first located at Dona Felisa Syjuco Building with just an office and a showroom. At that time they only have four people running the business namely; a merchandiser, a secretary, a driver and the general manager.

Since the company have no warehouse to speak of; most of our deliveries go straight to the showroom. After this humble experience, they then partly shared a warehouse together with another company. After this warehouse sharing, the company decided to rent a warehouse of its own in Pasay City in late 1989.

SOURCE:

Manila Welcome Industrial Corporation
Blk 3 Lot 2 Golden Mile Business Park, Bo. Maduya, Carmona, Cavite 4116 Philippiness
Tel No +63 2 42948790
Fax No+63 46 4301505
Email: mwic@mwic.com.ph

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BSK creates dioramas for local museums and exhibits in Marikina, Valenzuela, Olongapo and Pinaglabanan. The limited market for dioramas made the nonprofit group to look into creating fashionable Filipiniana dolls, similar to Japanese ningyo dolls, the closest of which are the geisha dolls.

Creating a Maria Clara doll usually takes a day or two, depending on the design of the overall costume, particularly the cloth for the dress and accessories ranging from necklaces, earrings, payoneta (hair comb) and abaniko (fan).

Aside from getting their costume fabrics from Divisoria, the group also gets abaca and other fine Filipino fabrics from local designer Patis Tesoro. They also have a group that crafts doll accessories.

Among the dolls, the 24-inch kasalan (wedding) is the most popular design. The Maria Clara doll is happily escorted by her groom; its wedding gown is as elaborate as the gowns worn during actual weddings, with piña silk fabric designed with fine embroidery and bead artwork.

For Moro-inspired dolls, they double the effort to design the clothing based on actual attire of Muslim royalties in Mindanao while they also find it interesting to design dolls for cultural tribes such as the Kalingas, Ifugao and others.

There are also everyday sights such as a lady selling vegetables in the market while wearing a matching baro’t saya and a girl peddling bangus fish on a bilao atop her head, the beauty of which rival the extravagance of dolls attending the Flores De Mayo parade, another local festival. (http://loqal.com)


“Balikatan sa Kaunlaran” means working shoulder to shoulder for progress. This was the guiding principle of the BSK Movement since its inception in 1977 by its mother agency, the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW). The principle was adopted by the BSK to enhance the partnership between the government and non-government organizations in uplifting the quality of life of women and their families.

The BSK was originally created as a women’s movement by the NCRFW through the support of 92 recognized non-government organizations that lobbied for the approval of Presidential Proclamation 1609 which declares January 6 of each year as “Araw ng Balikatan.” NCRFW tapped 24 volunteer women leaders to organize BSK Movement all over the country. BSK was able to establish its provincial/city councils and municipal chapters nationwide. Programs and projects were implemented in selected communities and have benefited 3.5 million women and their families.

To ensure its continuity, its national leaders agreed to register BSK as a non-government organization (NGO) with the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1983. BSK continued to enjoy the technical and financial support extended by NCRFW until 1986.

The change in leadership in the NCRFW and its decision to concentrate in policy formulation led to the independent operations of BSK. It finally severed its umbilical cord with the government in January 1987 and had to start anew with limited resources.

To pursue the vision and mission of the organization, the BSK Founder President, Dr. Leticia P. de Guzman exerted efforts to save the organization through networking and developing new breed of BSK national leaders. After eight years of transition, the BSK was able to recover from serious organizational crisis and gradually recovered from its downfall. Dr. Angelita Ago from the Bicol Region took over the BSK national leadership as its second national president.

Major concepts had to be introduced and new programs were pilot tested by its incumbent President, Ms. Guia G. Gomez who initiated the conversion of BSK to a family-based organization. Social enterprises and micro-lending services were initiated in several local communities through the support of funding agencies such as United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Australian Embassy, Katahira and other foreign institutions. Joining the informal sector coalition and other networks were also pursued to be able to maximize the benefits of its programs and projects for intended clientele.

The BSK has also expanded to Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) through creating the BSK Hongkong Council, the special council of BSK that initiated the creation of Hongkong Village for OFWs in Hongkong. The Taiwan Council was also created as the second OFW council of BSK.

Today, the BSK continues to implement Entre-Pinoy and Agribusiness as its flagship programs. The BSK also continue to conduct skills training, leadership and values formation seminars and other activities that promote social entrepreneurship and family solidarity.

SOURCE:

Balikatan sa Kaunlaran Productivity Center National Foundation
Address: 170 Mabini St., Addition Hills, San Juan City, Metro Manila
Contact number: (+0632) 721-2277, 723-5653, 0917-5301221, 0930-5290064
E-mail address: jingescano2002@yahoo.com, balikatansakaunlaran@yahoo.com

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KICULO is a line of fashionable pandan-based bags, a collection of vibrant products made of a versatile indigenous material matched with rich fabric,and carefully hand-crafted with accents of soft leather, colorful beads, striking shells and polished wood.

Each piece is lovingly created by the people of Negros, Kiculo handbags reflect the vivacity and exotic feel of the island, each a unique collector's item, every one proudly Filipino in nature.


SOURCE:

Kiculo Crafts
Marichu D. Cusi (Proprietor/Manager)
E-mail Address: mdcusi@yahoo.com.ph
Address: 24 Quezon Avenue, Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, Philippines
Contact Number(s): (+63) 928-5030051; 034-4354518

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Named after their grandmother, this necklace represents everything about her; feminine yet strong, breath-taking and classy. Myriads of natural-colored mother of pearl flowers and fresh water pearls are draped together to form this necklace. Black ribbon makes this piece adjustable in length.

Cayetano Legacy Collection, Inc. was founded by three sisters Karen Cayetano Leano, Gail Cayetano and Christine Cayetano Brigino, after recognizing a need for women’s jewelry and handbags showcasing the beautifully sourced material from the Philippine Islands. As first generation Filipino Americans these sisters wanted to bring worldwide attention to the beauty coming from this lush country, while also giving back to the nation that has given them their heritage.


SOURCE:
CAYETANO LEGACY COLLECTION, INC
info@cayetanolegacy.com
P: (310) 625 4634

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Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster model airplane is made of the finest kiln dried renewable mahogany wood (commonly known as Lauan or Meranti) which has undergone many stages of carving and meticulous and careful sanding giving the beautiful finished museum quality masterpiece. Many collectors and model connoisseurs demonstrate their preference for genuine hand made mahogany wood models rather than plastic, resin or die cast (diecast) alternatives due to the overall look and totally different feel of the item.

PlaneArts, a manufacturer of the finest museum quality hand made model airplanes (civilian and warplanes ), model helicopters, airships, blimps, dirigibles, tail shields, wall plaques and seals, boats, ships and submarines. Custom made and stock quality wooden collectible models direct from the maker’s factory.


SOURCE:

Planearts
P. O. Box 52420, Angeles City, Pampanga
Philippines 2009
Mobile: +639175321234
Email: info@planearts.com

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This recycled keychain comes in RK-Vo version 1.0 with 5"-6" in height and RK-Vo version 2.0 with 3" in height

Both version comes with a 2GB USB Flash Drive with keychain and latch lock so you can easily hang them on your bag and slide your keys!

The creator categorize them into four (4) types:

• Gayum-a-trix - a magical charm for bags & keys.
• Kwintatrons - the widget pendant charm necklace.
• RK-VΘ - the technoindigenous USB flash drive.
• Bubwitz - the zoobotic (zoo + robotic) critters.

Taken from the word "Abubot", UBots is a creative solution to techno detritus assembled with raw handcrafting skills. UBots is a zero waste project that aims to transform the curious biology of everyday trash into "Hardware Store" fashion accessories with an Industrial-Pop flair.

Different designs are available at:

• Space Encounters, Padilla Bldg.,Ortigas Center
• Ayala Museum Shop
• Echostore, Serendra
• Splatt MNL, Market! Market!
• Splatt MNL, Alabang Town Center

SOURCE:

UBots
Space Encounters Unit B Mezzanine,Padilla Bldg.,
F. Ortigas Jr., Ortigas Center, Pasig City,
Philippines
(+632)347 0793
c/o Bam Basbas

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Django Leather Art & Craft established in 1993 by Antonio "Django" Valmores. Each design is the blend of the creative ingenuity of several indigenous artists of Boracay Island and Malay and the critical supervision of Django himself. The result is a master piece of creative freedom and distinctiveness suited to the demands of your lifestyle.

The spontaneous design are characteristic for all Django creations. The freedom in the treatment of curves and lines punctuates each color and texture to achieve a unique sense of personality and individuality, hence, no two products are identical.


Products
Leather shoes, bags, wallets, accessories, and Boracay-famous "foot bikini"

SOURCE:

Django Leather Art & Craft

Email: djangoleather@gmail.com | diangovalmores@yahoo.com

0927-7014892

• EVERY SUNDAY AT THE LEGAZPI MARKET - 8am - 3pm Legazpi cor. Rufino Streets, Makati City
• Station 2, PLAZOLETA , Boracay Philippines

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• Double or 3 layered aprons to protected from stains and dirt
• Made of high-quality fabrics and materials
• Strongly stitched and made of soft and cool fabrics
• One-size fits all – designed to fit every woman
• All aprons come with pockets
• All aprons are easy to care and maintain
• All aprons can be folded or hang

THE APRON AVENUE always has customer satisfaction in mind. We gear our efforts not only toward our designs but also in guaranteeing fast response time with online orders and careful assistance by our friendly staff.

Mobile Number: (63) 915 883 3301

For information, queries and suggestions please email us at the following:

roselle@theapronavenue.ph and sharon@theapronavenue.ph

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Fully padded for protection and spacious enough for your laptop and gadgets.

Dimension: 15.5" W x 13"H x 2"
Handle: 20"

Materials: Upcycled denim, Printed Cotton fabric, Foam and cotton fabric lining
With Zipper Closure and inner pockets
Replaceable and Interchangeable belt/tie
(Also available additional /other designs of replaceable belt/tie. )



SOURCE: www.MyCisidlan.com

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Ethnu, a social enterprise under Ethnocentricity Incorporated, produces fashionable and modern ethnic-inspired accessories that incorporates authentic indigenous materials to increase awareness regarding the different ethnic groups of the Philippines.

A fusion of fashion and culture, Ethnu is more than just a fashion statement. Ethnu is urban ethnicity at its finest.

THEIR THREE COLLECTIONS

• Kalinga: Peacock Warriors

• Ifugao: People of the Earth

• T'boli: Brass Dreamweavers

SOURCE:
E-mail: ethnuaccessories@gmail.com
Facebook: http://facebook.com/ethnu
Blog: http://ethnuaccessories.blogspot.com
Mobile Number: 09178546677 (Gillian Te)

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Tiger shoe (Left)
Dominantly in gold with black lining, sprinkled with gold glitters.

Plaid shoe (Middle)
Alternating black, green and red for primary colors with a little white lining. Cast Resin, hand painted, non-toxic acrylic paint with gloss finish.

Beaded t-strap sandal (Right)
Dominantly in black, sprinkled with silver glitters.

Dimensions: 3.75in x 1.25in x 2in
Weight: 30 g

Cast Resin, hand painted, non-toxic acrylic paint with gloss finish.

SOURCE: MARY KEL COMPANY

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This Necklaces are products of Dire Husi, a youth organization, a creative social enterprise, an artisan collective, a band of world musicians, a training hub, and a fair trade advocate.

“Dire” is a Visayan word for “here” and “Husi“ is a Manobo word for “friend.”


SOURCE: DIRE HUSI

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Handmade book-look-a-like clay pendant by Cessa Gaston.

SOURCE: THINGYS

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Wide brim hat made of multi-colored buntal straw.

SOURCE: Social Action Foundation For Rural And Urban Development, Inc.

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Made out of used drink containers, called doy packs. The packs are sanitized and the women sew them together into attractive, durable bags.


SOURCE: http://www.bazurashop.com/

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This earings are made from natural materials such as Mother Of Pearl, blacklip, brownlip, paua, abalone, whiteshell and many more.

SOURCE: CEBU FASHIONISTA

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Made from Recycled Chipboard, Recycled Craft Paper, and Glitter accent and come with different colors like Blue, Light Blue, Silver, Gold, Red, Pink, Orange, Green and Lilac. They have Square, Rectangle, Round, Oval, Heart and Hexagonal shapes

SOURCE: C & K Handicraft

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