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Friday, February 17, 2017
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SAN JOSE, Antique – Alternative livelihood will be provided to parent and child laborers in six barangays in the province.
Some P3.6 million released by the Department of Labor and Employment provincial office will be used for various projects, including cattle- or goat-fattening and vending.
The beneficiary barangays were identified to have migratory sugar workers, or sacadas.
They were Santiago, Guinbanga-an and Bagongbayan in Laua-an; Binanogan in Valderrama; Concepcion in Belison; Beri in Barbaza; and Centro Pojo (Poblacion) in Bugasong.
Project proposals from these villages were submitted to the Labor department last year yet; they have been approved, according to Lorraine S. Villegas, officer-in-charge of the Antique field office.
The funding was released on Wednesday through the department’s Integrated Livelihood and Emergency Employment Program.
The agency has released P11,399,505 for livelihood projects for sacadas in Antique since 2014.
The six beneficiary barangays also committed to be child labor-free.
At least 1 percent (141) of sugar industry child laborers in Western Visayas come from Antique, a Labor department report showed. (PNA)
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