Mindanaotoday.com | DOLE Camiguin turns over P5-M aid to boost partner coop’s projects
CAMIGUIN – As an accredited co-partner with 164 projects, NAGPAKABANA Multipurpose Cooperative was handed a check amounting to P5,491,055 from the Department of Labor and Employment Camiguin Provincial Field Office (DOLE Camiguin PFO), in conjunction with the 121st Labor Day Celebration, here, on May 4.
While over P2 million of the turned-over fund is budgeted for different beneficiary organizations under the cooperative’s projects, over P3 million is budgeted for a total of 151 individual starter kits for multiple projects.
“That is the purpose of DOLE for the livelihood projects: to develop your livelihood through these starter kits or enhancement funding that is granted to you,” said Arlyn Bael, DOLE Camiguin PFO chief.
Bael also turned over a total of P263,000 to three “Mission Race” Program beneficiaries and eight parents of child laborers under the Child Labor Prevention and Elimination Program (CLPEP).
“I hope from now on, mahimo kining kabahin sa inyong development dinha sa inyong kaugalingon and even sa inyong community—ang paghatag niining maong proyekto so that ang atong panginabuhi muuswag dili lang kay sa pormal na pagpanarbaho but also pinaagi sa atong informal sector,” said Bael.
(I hope from now on, this will be part of your personal development and even that of your community—this turning over project so that our lives may progress not only through formal means of working but also through the informal sector). (TAAG | PIA-10 | Camiguin)
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