DEAR FOUNDATION PRESENTS 3 POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROJECTS FOR BARANGAYS

     Mr. Patricio Martir of the Drug Enforcement and Rehabilitation (DEAR) Foundation during a recent meeting of the City Anti-Drug Abuse Council (CADAC), presented three poverty alleviation projects for the barangays, which will be conducted in close coordination with the Dept. of Social Services and Development.
     They are “Pera sa Basura”, garment production and a computer training course to be conducted by the Sharing Computer Access Locally and Abroad or SCALA, said Martir.
     The “Pera sa Basura” targets Barangay Bata as pilot area targeting 100 unemployed families, especially the Children in Need of Special Protection (CNSP).  This project needs a total of P650,000 wherein P300,000 comes from the local government and P350,000 as barangay counterpart.  This project will be replicated in other barangays, as soon as the pilot project proves successful.
     Barangays Handumanan and Villamonte will be the pilot areas for the garment production.  The local government will be providing the Hi-speed Machine amounting to half a million.  The marketing of the finished products will be done by the Department iof Trade and Industry.
     The computer training, dubbed as “Engineers without Borders”, will be conducted by 2 Canadian trainors free of charge.  The DSSD will handle the board and lodging and the training venue will be the City Cooperative and Livelihood Development Office Training Center.  DSSD Head Linda Ablanque said that funds for this will be taken from the unexpended budget of the Balay Paglaum, amounting to P169,000. (CMO-PIO/CADAC)

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