Cement bags and fashion? One cannot find any relation between the two. But fisherwomen from Penjaringan, North Jakarta are turning the useless cement bags into fashionable handbags and mats.
Houses under constructions have now become a source of income, not only for construction workers but for fishermen's wives.
A group a 15 women after collecting cement paper sacks from the construction sites, work in small workshop to transform these into various fashionable products like bags, hand phone bags, mats and magazine holders and earn their livelihood.
With an unusual look, these bags are not coated or painted, and are sold at a high prices in handicraft exhibitions or bazaars.
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