Mindanaotoday.com | 47 Oro beneficiaries now entrepreneurs
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Forty-seven beneficiaries from this city are now entrepreneurs through the turnover of P420,000 worth of Department of Labor and Employment-10 (DOLE-10) livelihood grants at the Trinidad Building Parking Area, here, on Nov. 10-11, 2022.
Emmanuel Toledo, DOLE-10 Cagayan de Oro City Field Office (CDO FO) chief, said the aid is under the DOLE Integrated Livelihood Program (DILP) which granted P320,000 worth of seven “bigasan” and sari-sari store projects to 16 individuals; and P100,000 worth of general merchandise group project to 31 members of the Lapasan Urban Poor Association, Inc. (LUPAI).
Toledo said the bigasan starter kit includes 13 sacks of rice, eco bags, rice scooper and weighing scale; sari-sari store kit has softdrinks, coffee, milk powder, bar soaps, detergent powder, noodles, condiments, diapers, sanitary napkins, tissue paper, two sacks of rice, and ice wrapper; and general merchandise project includes assorted grocery goods and a refrigerator.
Beneficiary and LUPAI member Winefreda Pornea said she was grateful to the assistance and hoped to sustain their general merchandise project.
Pornea is a self-employed tailor and a seller of ready-to-wear clothes in their neighborhood.
She hopes to improve her means of living to be able to provide the needs of her family and boost the economy of the community.
As a self-employed individual, she earns P5,000 per month, enough to assist her family needs since all her children have jobs.
Pornea is also a member of the Barangay Women’s Development Committee in Barangay Lapasan, of the city.
Toledo said the turnover was in coordination with the city’s Job Placement Bureau-Public Employment Service Office (JPB-PESO) representative Juvy Paimalan and Balubal Integrated Social Forestry Farmers Association (BISFFA) thru President Crispin M. Bactong as the Accredited Co-Partner (ACP).
DILP aids individuals and group associations through the encouragement of entrepreneurship and community businesses, as well as providing jobs for informal sectors.
ACP is the DOLE program partner in charge of providing the target recipient with services directly.
They are the labor unions, non-profit human rights groups, non-governmental organizations that have met DOLE accreditation standards. (DOLE-10)
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