Lumago Designs

Lumago means “to blossom” in the national Filipino language, and was founded by an American Social worker, Whitney Fleming, in 2011 when a huge typhoon devastated parts of the impoverished community on our city’s dumpsite. 

Subsequently to find another source of income, a group of women from the community learned to make beads rolled from paper. These dedicated and determined women took it upon themselves to start producing and designing jewelry that Whitney would then sell to the local resorts. 

Unfortunately the demand for these products locally could not keep up and they had to reach out to other markets for the project to be sustainable. 

They decided to blossom and that’s when Lumago Designs, the social enterprise, was born!