A total of 172 of 557 applicants have been hired on the spot in the recent job fair conducted by the Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office VII held at the Insular Square, North Road Basak, Mandaue City.

The local job fair was in partnership with the Mandaue City Government and the Department of Education (DepEd).

57 hired applicants were partner-beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program.

The SLP will help the hired partner-beneficiaries through pre-employment assistance fund (PEAF).

Through this fund, the hired partner-beneficiaries will be assisted in complying with all the necessary pre-requisite requirements in order to ensure prompt submission of requirements to access job opportunities.

The participating companies and agencies during the job fair were the Easy Gas, Cebu Mitsumi Inc., Monde Nissin Corp., SM Supermarket, SM Hypermarket, Metro Gaisano, Lamonte Sales Merchandising, Dunkin Donuts, Eperformax, Gaisano Grandmall Mandaue, Gaisano Grandmall Mactan, The Results, Acabar, Outsource It,  Cebu Workactive Manpower Services and Rafi Micro-Finance, Inc.

The SLP is a community-based capacity building program that increases the economic opportunities of the families through the different modalities that it offers such as skills training, seed capital fund, pre-employment assistance fund, and the cash for building livelihood assets.

It is implemented through the Community-Driven Enterprise Development Approach which equips program participants to actively contribute to production and labor markets by looking at available resources and accessible markets. ###

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