DTI awards P150,000 worth of livelihood kits to former rebels

From the Philippine Information Agency (Jan 12, 2021): DTI awards P150,000 worth of livelihood kits to former rebels (By Merlito G. Edale, Jr.)

CITY OF ILAGAN, Isabela, Jan. 11 (PIA) – Former rebels under the custody of 5th Infantry Battalion can now utilize the livelihood kits recently turned over by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).

In an awarding ceremony, DTI Isabela Provincial Director Winston Singun said the livelihood kits awarded to the former rebels is part of the department’s Pangkabuhayan sa Pagbangon at Ginwaha (PPG) program which aims to provide support to individuals and micro-enterprises affected by man-made and natural calamities, including the COVID-19 pandemic.

Singun said that a total of P150,000 worth of livelihood kits were already given in the form of sari-sari store business kits, gardening and farming kits composed of tools, implements and fertilizers, poultry kits composed of feeds and housing and mushroom spawns for their mushroom production.

Aside from the livelihood kits, Singun said that they have also assisted in the packaging of their business plan that was submitted to the labor department to support their request for financial assistance for the establishment of their poultry project.

“DTI is offering its programs and services to FRs in support to President Rodrigo Duterte’s Executive Order No. 70 or the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict,” Singun said.

The 95th Infantry Battalion was represented by its Executive Officer Maj. Oscar Blanza. (MDCT/MGE/PIA 2-Isabela)

https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1063522