Back in 2011, one of the founders had an immersion in Pasay, Manila where he met a lady named Marlene. She has been making unique crafts by hand and only sell it at low-price. Banking on luck for walk in customers and her mini sari-sari store, despite of having meager profit, she and her family only earns at around P132/ day. Due to this firsthand and treasured experience, the group wanted to help catapult them from poverty while avoiding the dependency mind set. The group firmly believe that it is indisputably significant to have a step by step development for the artisans to improve their lifestyle, by making innovative crafts and be linked to a wide range of opportunities. Discovering social innovation, the group started to sell Ate Marlene's crafts to its network and gradually expanded by also helping other artisans unleash their skills within the community.
Overtime, Namana Crafts was formalized in 2015 to officially provide these artisans with market access, proper payment scheme, product designs, and additional skills in order to enrich more of their capabilities. Moreover, while these Filipino artisans are born to create big dreams, we, as a social enterprise aim to build bridges and revitalize ideas within our clients and our partnered communities.
is to improve Filipino artisans’ lifestyle by means
of lifting them out of poverty through providing market opportunities, developing new skills and incorporating market-driven knowledge. Also, we aim to connect these Filipino artisans to our stakeholders by offering them quality products as it opts to transcend a better relationship with them.
MISSION
VISION
is to be the brand of choice for modern handicrafts, created by a hub of disadvantage groups locally and internationally.