Soap production

Soap of life: Soap production provides more than bread and butter for families (Success story of a youth entrepreneur)

One of the 60 recipients of Starter Kits of the Labour Market-Responsive Entrepreneurship Training Programme in the Province of Maguindanao was a 22 year-old out-of-school youth and a resident of Old Maganoy, Datu Abdullah Sangki, 2nd District Maguindanao.

Five months after they started running their micro-enterprise, disaster struck. The couple almost lost their child to dengue, a mosquito-borne disease, during the dengue outbreak in their barangay. To save their child, Suad and her husband had to use all their earnings, including the capital of their soap business for hospitalization fees. This had cost them their means of living. They tried saving their business but the lack of funds forced them to totally give it up. Money was sparse for the family and they didn’t have any sources of capital to start anew.