Looking for a gift that keeps on giving? Globe Business makes it easier to look for local food, fashion, wellness, and household items that you can give to your loved ones or yourself this holiday season.
Gift Local trains the spotlight on micro, small, and medium local social enterprises that support the livelihood of farmers, local designers, indigenous communities, and underprivileged individuals.
“This year’s campaign aims to bring out the goodness behind each purchase by giving Filipinos the opportunity to choose holiday gifts that give twice the joy – to the recipient and to the local business and community that they benefit,” said KD Dizon, head of MSME Group at Globe Business.
Go to globe.com.ph to check out the following products:
Malagos Chocolates
Make a chocolate lover in your life happy and help the Malagos Cacao Development Center empower cacao farmers by purchasing Malagos Chocolates. The center connects its beneficiaries to opportunities such as production and marketing agreements to help them thrive.
Backpack and Kimono
For the friend who loves to travel, the Gouache x Spark backpack and reusable kimono cover-up are great gifts that they can bring to their next adventure (or even when just going to the grocery). The products are made by local artisans in Marikina.
Fluffy Abel Blanket and Inabel Good Morning Towel
Be your tita’s favorite pamangkin by gifting her an abel blanket or an inabel Good Morning towel from Locano. These and other woven crafts from the local enterprise were skillfully pedal-loomed by artisan women from Vigan and Santa in Ilocos Sur and Bangar in La Union.
Virgin Coconut Oil
For the friend who is loco over coco, choose from Greenlife Coconut Products’ range of coconut items. Purchasing the enterprise’s virgin coconut oil or coco sugar will not only make your receiver happy but also the hardworking coconut farmers in the country.
Plain T-shirts
Help update someone’s wardrobe with basic tees from HTP Basics while supporting the brand’s distributors and resellers. You can also be a reseller yourself by availing of its 1,500-peso package that comes with 10 T-shirts.
Wooden Holding Cross
For that person on your list who would appreciate a tabletop wooden cross, this one from BalaiKamay Enterprise was handcrafted by underprivileged carpenters using repurposed wood and non-timber forest products.