DAVAO CITY PIA) - The Department of Trade and Industry distributed ‘ayuda’ in the form of livelihood kits worth PhP 5,000 to 300 sari-sari store owners in geographically isolated and depressed areas (GIDAs) in Davao de Oro for this 2022.
According to DTI Davao de Oro, the livelihood seeding program dubbed as Pangkabuhayan para sa Pagbangon at Ginhawa assists micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), especially in the GIDAs towards their recovery from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Kung naay ayuda ang DSWD para sa pangkonsumo, kani nga ayuda gikan sa DTI, pangkati ni sa ilang negosyo para dili na mahimong sira-sira store ang ilang mga sari-sari store,” said Patrick Kim Evangelio, division chief for Business Development of DTI Davao de Oro during the One Davao virtual presser on July 27. (If DSWD gives aid for consumption, the aid from DTI serves as a subsidy for their businesses so that their sari-sari store will not become a ‘sira-sira’ store.)
For this year, the beneficiaries are from ten barangays from the different towns in the province, namely Barangay San Roque in Nabunturan, Barangay Libudon in Mabini, Barangays Tagdangua and Fuentes in Pantukan, Barangays Bollukan and Inacayan in Laak, Barangays Pamintaran and New Panay in Maragusan, and Barangays Salvacion and Malinawon in Mawab.
Evangelio also disclosed that in 2020 and 2021, the agency assisted a total of 400 MSMEs in the province for the said program.
“Aside from gihatag namo na business kits, naghatag pud mi sa beneficiaries og gamayng seminar, sama sa kaning simple bookkeeping kung unsaon paglista sa mga naay utang, sa ilang sales, and inventory; magamit gihapon nila nga mga kahibalo sa ilang pagnegosyo,” he added. (Aside from the business kits we distributed, we also provided the beneficiaries with seminars like simple bookkeeping on how to list their creditors, sales, and inventory; something that they can utilize for their businesses.)
The division chief also bared that under the same program and in partnership with the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), 30 associations will also receive PhP 150,000 worth of business kits starting August this year.
Among the associations, Evangelio said, 24 are people’s organizations endorsed by the Revitalized Police sa Barangay (RPSB) in support to the continuing counter insurgency program of the government. (PIA XI, Michael Uy)
