DOLE releases P1M assistance to poor families

Mayor Edward C. Codilla hands P26,000 cash to a
representative of a beneficiary association of DOLE's
Integrated Livelihood Program. Six associations were
given the amount to be lent to their members. Also in the
photo are DSWD program representative Nelia Oledan
(left) and CSWDO officer Marietta Legaspi. (photo by
 Josie Serseña)

MAYOR Edward C. Codilla led the distribution of more than P1 million worth of livelihood assistance under the Integrated Livelihood Program of the Department of Labor and Employment. The City Social Welfare and Development identified the 214 beneficiaries.

Six barangay livelihood associations received a total of P157,000 to be lent to their 157 members. The associations will roll the money by lending P10,000 to each member payable within two years with interest, after which the members can borrow again.

The associations are Bagong Community Assoc. (26 members), Margen Farmers Livelihood Assoc. (27), Linao St. Mark Assoc. (30), Boroc Layer Sustainable Livelihood Program Assoc. (27), Kalangkoy Matica-a Livelihood Assoc. (20) and Mahayag Livelihood Assoc. (27).

On the other hand, 44 families of child laborers working in sugarcane fields were each lent P15,000 worth of grocery items for their sari-sari store business payable within two years to their associations. The recipients come from Liloan (three recipients), Dayhagan (1), Patag (17), Cagbuhangin (5), Sumangga (1) and Valencia (5).

Another 13 familes of child laborers from Lilo-an, Patag and Cagbuhangin were also lent cash for their rice-retailing business also payable within two years to their associations. Six of them are repeat borrowers who have fully paid their previous loan received P15,000 each while seven new borrowers got P10,000 and one unit weighing scale each. by Josie Serseña