Creative Livelihood in Prison

I came from a wedding the other week and it's only now that I managed to look at the giveaways which were distributed that day. They were colorful handcrafted flowers made of paper (click the images to enlarge). It had a small card saying:

The missionary Servants of the Poor Community is composed of Diocesan Lay Missionary Brothers, whose advocacy centers in the promotion of a strong livelihood facility in Philippine Jails. This is their way of helping prisoners making them prepared of making better lives in their eventual joining in the mainstream of the society.

So I checked the URL found on the card to know a bit more about the Missionary Servants of the Poor (MSoP). The missionaries are stationed in the Dioceses of Sorsogon, Legaspi, Cubao, Caloocan, Malolos and San Pablo. They help people in prison who are victims of social injustice according and based on their own investigations. They also prioritize inmates who are known as VISA - Visitless, Indigent, Sick, and Aged.

You can see the letters from the directory page

They primarily produce paper-crafted flowers, tissue holders, bread trays, candy canister, file holders, and some other related products.

I guess it's kind of a mission that gives prisoners something to make a living out of. Make them work and be productive as they prepare for the outside world.

The flowers are actually really nice. They don't look cheap at all and quality is really good. I honestly can't make these nor can I imagine how to make that woven technique and design on paper. That's talent :) ... I can braid hair though. Errrr I dunno how to explain how I learned that.

So maybe you'd like to support this good cause? You get good products in exchange afterall, so it's not really a one-way thing the same with how that wedding I came from used their products as giveaways. Visit the Official Website of MSoP for more info and photos of the products they do as well as trainings in prisons that they've held.

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