ANA
C. CORDOVA
Nang Ana
or Ms. Ana C. Cordova started her business in the year 1969. At first it was
just a hobby, eventually she decided to sell her products. Straw mats,
placemats, banig and other straw products were her first products.
As time
goes by, she decided to engage in hablon business. She started in the 1980s
with just three workers. And in the year 2000, she organized a cooperative for the
purpose of helping her fellow senior citizens in her place – the Cagbang
Women’s Multipurpose Cooperative.
Later on,
it became the Oton Woven Products.
Currently,
her hablon products are shawls, polos, cloth, patadyong, and table runners.
Nang Ana
is very overwhelmed by the help of DTI in her business. DTI helped her to
promote her products by participating in trade fairs (provincial, national and
international fairs).
She also
participated in international fairs in New Jersey (2001), Canada (2005), Hawaii
(2006), Canada (2010), and Indonesia (2017).
At 84
years old, Nang Ana is still passionate about her business, saying “I am
retired but not tired.”
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