MANDAUE CITY, Cebu — A mother from Tagbilaran City, Bohol has managed to send her five kids to college from the earnings that she saved from making and selling homemade tableya (cacao tablets). Elsa Polot, 58, was working as a street sweeper in 1994 when she started to roast cacao beans and produced the tableya that she would sell to neighbors. She would also walk the streets of Tagbilaran City to sell her tableya. Fast forward to 2023, all of her five children are now professionals. The Polot family has also transformed their small family home in Barangay Booy into a Chocolate House that is now a favorite destination for locals and foreign guests who wanted to taste Elsa's famous hot choco.

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