Displaced workers get livelihood starter kits

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By Bong Garcia

THE City Government of Zamboanga distributed P600,000 worth of livelihood starter kits to 60 workers displaced when Moro rebels infiltrated the city in 2013.

Public Employment Service Office coordinator Lourdes Francisco said the livelihood starter kits, which were released last Friday to the identified beneficiaries, is in line with the City Government’s recovery and rehabilitation program for the internally displaced persons.

Francisco said that 30 of the 60 beneficiaries received sewing machines and a package containing a pair of cloth, scissor, thread, tape measure, and other accessories.

Francisco said 25 of them received food vending and snacks-making kits, while the remaining five were given kits for peanut butter-making. Each of the livelihood starter kits is worth P10,000.

She said the beneficiaries are part of the 240 families the City Government targeted to benefit from the program.

She said the livelihood program aims to help the displaced workers recover from losses incurred during the 21-day September 2013 siege, as well as to help them build back better lives.

Francisco said the program is part of the grass root participatory project jointly implemented by the local government through the CSWDO-Peso and the Department of Labor and Employment.

She said they will regularly monitor to check on the progress in the livelihood undertaking of the beneficiaries.