Some 250 Sustainable Livelihood Program participants have been given the opportunity to manage their own enterprises.

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) through the Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) recently awarded around Php 3 Million livelihood assistance to the 11 SLP Associations in the province of Cebu. This livelihood assistance is in the form of Seed Capital Fund (SCF).

There are at least eight (8) SLPAs with 195 program participants from the municipality of Malabuyoc who received the livelihood assistance namely Tibalao Cerdeña SLPA, Poblacion Uno Riverside SLPA, Group Uno Malabuyoc SLPA, Brgy. Kawayanan Sto. Niño Malabuyoc SLPA, Cacao’s Group Malabuyoc SLPA, Lombo Women’s Malabuyoc SLPA, Daan Lungso Malabuyoc SLPA, Caluctugan Cerdeña SLPA.

In the municipality of Alegria, at least two (2) SLPAs with 37 participants were given the assistance, namely Libo Lepanto SLPA and St. Jude Legaspi SLPA.

Also 18 members from the Obo-ob Bantayan SLPA received the same assistance.

Most of the program participants have engaged into fish vending, bigasan, sari-sari store or general merchandize and other forms of retailing business.

As of this report, the DSWD’s SLP has already released Php 19,448,500.00 to some 1,656 program participants in 24 local government units of Central Visayas since January 2018. ###

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