The Region 8 Small and Medium Entrepreneurs get the needed boost through the Bahandi 2006, pursuant to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's thrust of promoting SMEs as a poverty alleviation tool.
The Bahandi 2006 Eastern Visayas Regional Fair is a special annual event that showcases newly developed products and designs of the producers from all over the Region on the 20th to the 24th of September 2006 at the Megatrade Hall 3, Building B, 5th Level, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City.
There are over 70 producers-exhibitors in this prestigious Trade Fair from the six provinces of Region 8, namely Leyte, Southern Leyte, Biliran, Samar, Eastern Samar and Northern Samar.
The product focus of the exhibition are abaca-based gifts, toys and housewares, sinamay rolls, raffia rolls, ladies handbags and other fashion accessories, Tikog mats and other fashion accessories, pandan-based gifts, toys and housewares, fossilized leaves, handmade paper products, holiday decors and furnishings, baskets and ceramics, processed food and native delicacies.
The word Bahandi means treasure and wealth among the Waray and Cebuano-speaking people of Eastern Visayas. It is the most appropriate word to describe the richness, diversity and abundance of indigenous materials found only in Region 8.
How these natural materials have been hand-crafted by the producers of the different provinces of the Region, and new designs of professional designers from the foreign designers, PDDCP, APFTI through the various product development activities conducted, are indeed treasures of artistic shapes and wealth of opportunities of profits for businessmen and exporters.
Organized by the Department of Trade Region 8 and the Bahandi Producers Association of Eastern Visayas with the support of the local government units, the exhibitors are divided into regular producers, the CARP assisted and OTOP while the products are composed of furnishings, processed food, fashion accessories, shellcraft, novelty items and organic products.
Leyte compose 45 % of the regular exhibitors pie; Samar 16%; Easter Samar, 16%; Souther Leyte, 12%; Northern Samar, 9% and Biliran 2%.(PIA)
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