Some 500 Pantawid Pamilya partner-beneficiaries in Cebu have undergone livelihood skills training and micro-enterprise development through the Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP).
Pantawid Pamilya partner-beneficiaries listen intently to their professor’s lecture.
The SLP is a community-based capacity building program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
It aims to 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.
The SLP 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.
“To safeguard the long-term growth of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, we capacitate our partner-beneficiaries by engaging them in various economic activities for them be able to stand on their own,” said Regional Director Ma. Evelyn B. Macapobre.
Macapobre added that this particular project is in partnership with the Cebu Technological University (CTU).
“As the largest government university in the province of Cebu, CTU is capable of catering the needs of our partner-beneficiaries considering their technical expertise in vocational courses and their strategic external and extension campuses spread all over Cebu,” Macapobre underscored.
In Cebu City, 60 Pantawid Pamilya partner-beneficiaries have joined in the livelihood skills training on street food production.
“Dako akong kalipay kay daghan nakung nakat-unan nga menu pinaagi niini nga training (I’m very happy because I have learned many menu through this training),” said Virginia Nolasco, 56, a Pantawid partner-beneficiary from Brgy. Suba, Cebu City.
Viriginia sells fruits at home and regularly sells puto cheese to her neighbors.
“Puhon makapaninda naku ug lain-laing mga sud-an ug makadagdag ni sa amung halin (I hope I could now sell various viands. This could add in our income),” added Virginia.
After the training, Virginia and other trainees will also receive a starter kit.
Other identified livelihood skills training are housekeeping, dressmaking, furniture making, technical drafting, basic electricity and building wiring, massage therapy licensure course, food processing, plumbing and commercial cooking. ###
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