SSF For Wearable & Home Style (Printing)
JOY MPC has 300 members and total assets of Php9,500,000.00. They conduct annual medical missions as part of their community program. They also participate actively in various cooperative activities in the province where they can acquire additional knowledge and techniques to become a successful organization. The members of the cooperative are mostly teachers, fishermen, tricycle drivers, household helper and some skilled workers who have resigned or have finished contract from garments factories in EPZA. The cooperative never stopped crafting strategies on how to improve their sources of income. One of the activities they have agreed to venture into is the garment manufacturing. Since there are a number of members who are skilled sewers, the officers thought of putting a garments manufacturing activity to augment income of more than 30 members who are displaced as sewers in nearby EPZA. Another thing that pushed the cooperative to go into sewing business is the opportunity given by factories in EPZA who offer subcontracting jobs to local garment manufacturers. JOY MPC being near EPZA saw this advantage and would like to start as soon as possible.
Initially, the cooperative planned to manufacture t-shirts which they will supply to members and other cooperatives who may need them. From time to time there are various provincial and local activities that the cooperative attend and oftentimes, they wear uniform t-shirts. This was found as a good market for JOY MPC. Also, they plan to supply schools and dry goods store of their manufactured shirts. Given this very attractive situation, JOY MPC in coordination with DTI proposed applying to the SSF program as one of its hopeful beneficiaries.