When disability is no reason for poverty

TARLAC CITY: Forty-five-year-old Susana Alcantara refuses to stay in their house in Barangay Buenavista here and just wait for her children to provide for her needs. Instead, she wants to show her situation would not hamper her desire to make a living. She is without hands, literally.

Despite her handicap, Susana, a widow with seven children, ably provides for her family through banig (sleeping mat) weaving using her feet, and does it faster than her peers’ method.