POPP- a community cooperative enterprise

If poverty is the absence of wealth, then the solution is to create wealth and ensure that it is fairly and equitable shared by those who helped in its creation.

This POPP laundry detergent venture is an experiment on how a people in a community can come together and work towards a common goal of creating wealth through a cooperative enterprise.

The formula is simple: get people together, identify a needed product, produce it, and sell it. All involved will have a stake in the business and a right to dividends apart from fair wage for labor.

Hope this experiment works.

Pleasing customers by underpromising but over delivering

I am one happy and satisfied customer today of a Japanese owned eye glasses shop. Am also grateful about a lesson I learned from them on how to please a customer.

When I ordered a pair of eyeglasses, I was told that I will have to wait for ten working days for my eyeglasses to be ready since it requires special work and that work will have to be done in Japan. I was resigned to their schedule but even if the ten days have not passed, I got a text message that my glasses were ready for pick up.

It may be a trivial thing but I am happy about this because I really need these glasses for relief from constant eye strain and dizziness.

Now I can work and study again. And there is no more excuse.

Our moral and spiritual crisis

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Bikes for rent in Pasig

Bikes for rent in front of the Department of Education and Sports in Ortigas. But how does the scheme work?

I passed by these bikes for rent in the Pasig Ortigas area in front of the Department of Education and Sports main office.

I am all for self propelled modes of transportation, including and primarily walking and I support this undertaking even if just on an experimental basis.

I hope this initiative succeeds and that many people take to this mode of transportation. Hopefully, this can spread to other areas also. But local governments must also realize the important responsibility they have to ensuring pedestrian and bikers' safety