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Some 900 women from Albay province were lifted out of poverty after engaging in a two-year intervention program led by an international non-government organization, WE-LEAP .
Angelita Lirio, a 43-year-old mother of seven from Sitio San Jose, Barangay Nagotgot, Manito, recalled how her small group of 17 women started with modest ambitions. Initially retailing a single sack of rice, they have now diversified into selling dried fish, cassava chips, brooms, and liniments. In Barangay Caguiba, 28-year-old Joan Murilla Pepaño reflected on her transformation from a housewife to a confident entrepreneur. With a business built on their home-grown lettuce, she and her group have ventured into producing vegetable salads, a source of pride and financial stability.
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