A phonetic play on words, Yunik Krafts was the first major livelihood program of Dawn for the Poor to indicate the beautifully unique crafts lovingly made by the gifted hands of the urban poor. In 1998, a strategic contact from anotherurban poor church movement began to teach cross-stitch skills to our community members. Yunik Krafts was began to organize the export of quality cross-stitched book marks, greeting cards and wall hangingpictures as an income generating project to help urban poor youth in school. The products market now is in Germany, England, Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States and Japan. It now also includes soap products which are sold on the local market.

Yunik Krafts attempts to respond to the economic situation of the urban poor areas of Bukang Liwayway by facilitating the establishment of small cottage industries among the poorest members of the community who are not able to enter the macro enterprise system on their own. Aside from giving a small source of income to the workers of the community, Yunik’s income also heavily supports the educational assistance program of Bukang Liwayway.We also operate in genuine partnership with our communities to advance economic and social development, as well as and personal empowerment. Simply put, we don’t want to give the local community fish; we want to help our communities think for themselves how to learn better ways to fish.