A short presentation on how Tahanang Walang Hagdanan have made a business center to market the products of their PWD beneficiaries.

1. “ Business Center for the Products and Services of Persons with Disabilities” Tahanang Walang Hagdanan (TWH)

3. TWH is located in Cainta, Rizal

4. Inaugurated on Feb. 21, 1973

5. Metal craft

6. Woodcraft and Sewing

7. Packaging Services (medicine and fishhook)

9. WORKSHOP OPERATIONS MANUFACTURING SERVICES METALCRAFT WOODCRAFT NEEDLECRAFT UNILAB PACKAGING FISH HOOK KILN DRYER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CALL CENTER

11. A Community-Based Rehabilitation Program In 1994, TWH started organizing the PWDs in nearby communities thru the Community Based Rehabilitation Program in partnership with CBMI. To reach out and extend the same services provided in the center.

13. In 2006, TWH joined the World Banks project grant competition and was awarded 1 million for the project “Business Center for Products and Services of PWDs” (PACAP funded project It aims to tap the economic potentials of PWDs, which have been largely constrained by limited exposure The Business Center serves as marketing arm of the products, facilitates access to local and international market, and provides a venue for marketing transactions.

18. PWDs at work in the community Rattan Weaving and Candle Making

19. Bag making using Water Lily

20. Community Meetings

22. Finished Products Educational Materials

23. Tetrapak made furnitures

24. Customized mobility aids

25. Dep-Ed School chairs project

26. DepEd Project – Educational Materials

27. Training on Market awareness and Product Costing

28. Exhibits

30. from BERNALES HANDICRAFTS in Quezon from DELOS REYES HANDICRAFTS from GINTONG PANGARAP & GREGGY’S CHICHARON from LEO’S NATIVE HANDICRAFTS Pampanga

31. from MAJJICK MARCELO from RODRIGO MABELLA from Group of Women with Disability from TWH ITEMS

34. “ IT IS NOT WHAT A MAN HAS LOST BUT WHAT IS LEFT THAT IS IMPORTANT”