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Makati PWDs turn old tarps into bags

By REYNARD MAGTOTO
DON’T just throw away those old tarpaulins. Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in Makati are in need of used tarpaulins which they convert into shopping bags and laptop cases.

By verafiles

May 28, 2012

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By REYNARD MAGTOTO

DON’T just throw away those old tarpaulins.

Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in Makati are in need of used tarpaulins which they convert into shopping bags and laptop cases.

They have formed the Green Cooperative, whose main goal is to turn trash into reusable items. Its members from every barangay in that city were taught how to sew bags at a recent capability building training, dubbed as “Tulong-Pangkalikasan at Pangkabuhayan ng may K.”

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