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Sunday, March 21, 2004
200 rural womenfolk to get P1.2M soft loan
STARTING this quarter some 200 women, who attended the City's training on baking and bread making, flower arrangement and hair technology, will be given soft loans to support their livelihood, according to Councilor Mila Velasquez, chairperson of the Committee on Women and Family.
Velasquez said granting of loans to marginalized women was included in this year's plan of the Gender and Development (GAD). The total fund appropriation for this year is P1.2 million, which will also fund other training and activities on livelihood.
The livelihood will be based on zero-interest policy, Velasquez said. The granting of loan, screening of beneficiaries and collection of payment will be administered jointly by the City Agriculturist Office and the Office of the City Social Welfare and Development under Francisco Barredo.
Velasquez emphasized that priority will be given to trained women with zero interest on their loans and payable in one year.
"Year after year, we shall try to increase the funds and correspondingly the number of beneficiaries," Velasquez said.
Velasquez also reiterated the need for economic empowerment as the only remedy that would lift the women and their families from serious poverty plaguing the nation today.
Meantime, Vice Mayor Isabelle Climaco also focused on the need for value formation, especially industry, hard work and perseverance in order to make the women more productive.
Velasquez and Climaco were speaking during the annual general assembly and Family Farm Forum of the Rural Improvement Club. More than 500 women folk from the city's 98 barangays converged at the Octagon Hall in Barangay Bolong, last week, to mark their annual assembly.
The forum was part of the Women's Month celebration.
Other city officials who attended the forum were Councilor Roel Natividad and Sta. Catalina Kagawad Nonong Guingona.
The assembly organized by City Agriculturist Diosdado Palacat involved women leaders of the Rural Improvement Clubs (RIC) who participated in cooking demonstration, food processing, baking, and handicraft making and outdoor games.
(March 21, 2004 issue)
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