DTI gives P150-K to former rebels for livelihood proj

By Merlito G. Edale, Jr.   

CITY OF ILAGAN, Isabela – Former rebels under the custody of 5th Infantry Battalion can now utilize livelihood kits recently turned over by the Dept. of Trade and Industry.
    In an awarding ceremony, DTI Isabela provincial director Winston Singun said livelihood kits awarded to former rebels was part of the department’s Pangkabuhayan sa Pagbangon at Ginwaha program to provide support to individuals and micro-enterprises affected by man-made and natural calamities like Covid-19 pandemic.
    Singun said that a total of P150,000 worth of livelihood kits were already given in the form of sari-sari store business kits, gardening and farming kits composed of tools, implements and fertilizers, poultry kits composed of feeds and housing and mushroom spawns for their mushroom production. 
    Aside from the livelihood kits, Singun said they assisted in  packaging of their business plan submitted to the labor department to support their request for financial assistance for their poultry project.
    “DTI is offering its programs and services to FRs in support to President Rodrigo Duterte’s Executive Order No. 70 or the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict,” Singun said.
    The 95th Infantry Battalion was represented by its executive officer Maj. Oscar Blanza. – PIA Isabela