SAN JOSE, Antique – A total of 250 sari-sari or neighborhood variety store packages will be distributed to barangay microentrepreneurs affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in fourth and fifth class municipalities in Antique.
“The beneficiaries have been identified by the barangay captains and officials to be existing sari-sari store owners affected by the COVID-19,” said Arnel Oliveros, in charge of the Livelihood Seeding Program-Negosyo Serbisyo sa Barangay of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)-Antique.
Each sari-sari store package costs P6,000, and DTI personnel will deliver the packages to identified beneficiaries in the last week of August.
The beneficiaries are from towns of Anini-y with 27; Belison, 19; Laua-an, 56; Tibiao, 34; Sebaste, 18; Pandan, 62; and Libertad, 34.
The municipalities of Barbaza, Valderrama and Tobias Frontier are yet to submit their beneficiaries.
“Prior to the giving of the livelihood packages, the DTI Antique provincial office also conducted face-to-face and online orientations among the beneficiary microentrepreneurs together with their barangay officials,” Oliveros added.
The orientations discussed basic entrepreneurship, financial literacy, consumer rights and responsibilities, and DTI programs and services so that microentrepreneurs would “become resilient and know what to do as they recover.”
Barangay officials are also present during the orientations so they could assist the microentrepreneurs in their operations.(PNA/PN)
