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DOLE gives P660 K to Ifugao groups for livelihood projects
Jun Kindipan Dumar

LAGAWE, Ifugao – Department of Labor and Employment regional director Ana C. Dione has recently turned over two checks to the provincial government for livelihood programs. The first check was handed over to Gov. Teddy Baguilat Jr. worth P557, 480 for purchase of equipments.

The amount of p100, 000 was allotted for a coffee roasting equipment of the Unique Savings Credit Coop. of Banaue while P97, 480 was set for the purchase of food processing equipment of monggo hopia, butchi, and pineapple products of Alfonso-Lista town and an additional P360, 000 for rice mill processor of the Tukbuban Farmers Organization of Banaue.

The second check was handed to Ifugao State College of Arts and Forestry President Serafin Ngohayon amounting to P100, 000 pesos for financial assistance to graduating students to start their own income generating livelihood projects.

Dione asked the farmers of Tukbuban in Banaue who attended the signing of the memorandum of agreement for the cash donation to use the equipment upon purchase to produce more of the products so as to sustain the needs of the consumers.

The provincial government was obliged to supervise equipments and improve production of farmers.

“There is a need for the provincial government to engage in this project to make sure that the equipments are used correctly and to ensure also that these equipments will be taken under the care of your organizations and not privatized by any single individual,” Baguilat said.