LEGAZPI CITY, Albay (PIA) -– The Poverty Reduction, Livelihood and Employment Cluster (PRLEC), under the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), has allotted P27,289,585 million for skills training and income opportunities to 49 barangays in Bicol.
The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), as the lead agency of PRLEC, has provided livelihood opportunities to residents in vulnerable areas to help barangays become insurgency-free.
“The PRLEC aims to develop self-reliant, productive, resilient and sustainable communities through various development programs,” TESDA Bicol information office Ria Castor Gomez said during Ugnayan briefing on Wednesday.
From 4,348 beneficiaries of TESDA scholarships, about 3,242 were able to graduate. A total of 972 were certified and were able to earn from their work.
These barangays were initially identified to be cleared from the threats of communist-terrorist groups through the Support to Barangay Development Program (SBDP) of NTF-ELCAC.
The SBDP is the result of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s Executive Order 70 which aims to deliver the basic services and needs of the public in order not to associate with the rebel groups.
