DOLE 12 extends aid to Tacurong balot vendors
Economic News • 00:06 AM Fri May 8, 2015
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By:
Jezereel Louise C. Billano, Tacurong Information Officer II
DOLE Starter Kits for livelihood of indigents distributed earlier to terminal vendors. (Tacurong.gov.ph)
TACURONG CITY -- Fifty members of Tacurong City Balot Vendors Association
will receive P749,000 worth of livelihood assistance from the Department
of Labor and Employment (DOLE) under its Integrated Livelihood and Emergency
Employment Program (DILEEP).
The LGU, through its Public Employment Service Office (PESO),
lobbied for said assistance in 2014. According to Mayor Lina O. Montilla, she
was compelled to take action because she saw the need first-hand.
I see almost every day the balot vendors loading and unloading their stuff near the city hall. I admire them for their perseverance, it is a decent livelihood, Tacurong City Mayor LinaMontilla said.With the amount that DOLE extended, the LGU will purchase and
customize mobile stalls for the balot vendors.
Mayor Lina Montilla received the check for the livelihood
assistance from DOLE XII Regional Director Ofelia Domingo at the DOLE Regional
Office in Koronadal City on May 6, 2015. Mayor Montilla was joined by City
Accountant Elma Bides, LGU PESO In Charge Allan Freno, and City Treasury staff
Wilfredo Asuzena. Also present during the turnover of check were DOLE Sultan
Kudarat Field Officer Edwin Morales, Senior Labor Employment Officer Domingo
Baron, and DOLE XII DILEEP Focal Person Mary Grace Pauya.
Montilla shared the good news to the balot vendors during the
launching of DSWD's BUB-Funded Sustainable Livelihood Program in Tacurong on
May 7. (LGU-Tacurong City Information)