CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga – Some 6,149 marginalized individuals in Central Luzon have benefited through the various livelihood and emergency employment projects of Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
DOLE’s Technical Support and Services Division for Employment and Welfare head Alejandro Inza Cruz said the DOLE has already gave assistance worth some PHP26.32 million to marginalized workers comprised of farmers, ambulant vendors, working youths, housewives, and persons with disabilities in the first half of this year.
Inza Cruz noted that the funding for all livelihood assistance projects was sourced from the DOLE Integrated Livelihood and Emergency Employment Program or DILEEP and special funds.
The livelihood projects comprise NegoKarts, Starter Kits, Youth Employment Program (YES), Workers Income Augmentation Program (WIN-AP), and Tulong Panghanapbuhay para sa Ating Disadvantaged Workers (TUPAD).
Nego Karts are enhanced ambulant businesses such as street foods, barbeque, snacks, and beverages while Starter Kits are start-up ones namely carpentry, manicure/pedicure services, beauty care, dress-making, electronics, radiator repair, computer services, motor repair and massage.
Moreover, WIN-AP assists worker’s unions in the private sector in engaging business to augment their family income and TUPAD is an emergency employment undertaking wherein the head or member of an affected family will perform community works for 10 days./PNA/LDV/ZST/FEM