Community Stories — The Good Store

Last month, we joined DTI-BMDPO’s buying mission in Sorsogon to discover what the province has to offer. We visited various locations across Sorsogon Province, including Bulan, Casiguran, Bulusan, Barcelona, Irosin, and Sorsogon City along with other potential partners from Roots Collective and Tesoro’s.  Showcasing Sorsogon's Best Over two days, MSMEs showcased their unique community products, including abaca items, jewelry, pili nuts, pastries, and wellness products. All of us got to see firsthand how these products are made in factories and workshops. It was a fun time trying out the different products. Sorsogon really has a wealth of offerings made by...

The co-founders of The Good Store with some of the local social entrepreneurs and community partners.   A 2015 report by The British Council describes the social enterprise scene in the Philippines as vibrant and growing. As early as 2007, there were already 30,000 registered social enterprises in the country as stated in the report. Ms. Maria Angela Flores of the PH British Council notes that the majority of these social enterprises are product or commodity-based. It is in these sentiments that they have founded the I am a Changemaker Social Enterprise Competition in 2009. Through that program, they were...

True to our commitment in creating more GOOD for our communities and our planet, we present to you our Social Impact Report 2021. WE (Yes, you're included!) have accomplished all of these for the past year. Thank you for supporting us in these efforts. We donated 5% of our total profit, through our partner iVolunteer Philippines and Citizen's Disaster Response Center, to provide relief packs to provinces that are impacted by the recent typhoon Odette. Through encouraging more people to switch from single-use plastics, we have saved 120kg of plastics with reusables and sustainably-packed personal care products. Our partner La...