50 Mabalacat vendors get P1-M livelihood aid

PAMPANGA. DOLE Regional Director Zenaida Angara-Campita, Mabalacat City Mayor Crisostomo Garbo, DOLE Director II Alejandro Inza Cruz, DOLE Pampanga head Arlene Tolentino and PESO Manager Bernard Delos Reyes join the 50 Mabalaqueños who received livelihood aid from the department. (Contributed Photo)
PAMPANGA. DOLE Regional Director Zenaida Angara-Campita, Mabalacat City Mayor Crisostomo Garbo, DOLE Director II Alejandro Inza Cruz, DOLE Pampanga head Arlene Tolentino and PESO Manager Bernard Delos Reyes join the 50 Mabalaqueños who received livelihood aid from the department. (Contributed Photo)

SOME 50 ambulant vendors from Mabalacat City, Pampanga recently received livelihood assistance amounting to P1 million from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).

The assistance was initiated by the City Government of Mabalacat, through its Public Employment Service Office (PESO), and the DOLE Pampanga Field Office.

DOLE Central Luzon Director Zenaida Angara-Campita reported to Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III that the livelihood assistance was in the form of Negosyo sa Kariton (Nego Kart) projects.

“We have been handing out DOLE Nego Karts since 2009. In Central Luzon, we have enabled many marginalized ambulant vendors and would-be entrepreneurs in transforming their enhanced or newly-built roving carts into sustainable forms of businesses,” Campita said.

“Again we are privileged to be turning over these newly-built Nego Karts for our ambulant vendors here in Mabalacat City and we are grateful to the city government and it’s PESO for partnering with us in this endeavour,” she added.

The funding of the livelihood provision was sourced from the labor agency’s DOLE Integrated Livelihood and Emergency Employment Program, otherwise known as “DILEEP.”

DOLE Pampanga Field Office head Arlene Tolentino said that the bicycle-assisted stainless Nego Karts are roving street food-vending businesses such as siopao, fishball, burger, fruit, and lutong ulam, among others.

The city government, for its part, provided a P250,000 counterpart assistance in form of training, raw materials, and enrollment to social benefit schemes such as SSS and PhilHealth.

All beneficiaries underwent an Entrepreneurship Development Training (EDT) on basic management and bookkeeping to ensure the proper management and sustainability of their Nego Karts. (PR)

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