Wow!

Used cloths turned into what-looked-like paintings, colored magazines into adorable necklaces, and bamboos into frames to make accents for plants-- can actually produce beautiful products.,

I stopped over at WOW Women of Cavite’s corner at Robinson’s Mall along Dasmarinas, Cavite, Philippines, and I could not help saying wow!

The chopped mahogany wood pieces turned into garden seats and tables were a showcase of functional art.

The rice cake or what we call here in the Philippines suman-- suman is elongated in shape-- but this time the group used chocolate with sticky rice or was it corn flour?-- but I am sure that was melted in rich coconut milk, complemented the Gano coffee that I had. Gano is seven healthful ingredients in one coffee product.

If at all the lady who stood by was proud of these products, it was because Vida Ferrer, the head of the group, said that they had been in the place for six years.

WOW is in one corner of the mall beside the satellite offices of Overseas Workers Welfare Administration and the municipality of Dasmarinas. Government offices are now re-inventing itself by making their presence felt in malls. Wonder if the rent of the rate is worth the try.

WOW calls the women in Dasmarinas to join the group and be taught creative skills to make them enterprising and self-sufficient.