DTI Caraga vows to assist Odette-hit town in Surigao Norte
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Caraga, through Regional Director Gay Tidalgo, expressed its commitment to assist micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) that have been heavily affected by Typhoon Odette in this municipality. After its landfall in the province on December 16, 2021, Odette swiped off establishments, affecting 285 businesses in the municipality. “We are truly disheartened with what has happened and we
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cannot imagine how you manage to live by this reality that Odette has left,” said Tidalgo during the municipality’s Recovery and Rehabilitation Plan (RRP) Conference that was attended by 45 potential funding agencies last January 19.
San Francisco that will soon be provided with livelihood kits amounting to P8,000 each and we promise to soon profile the remaining 85 so that they may be assisted too,” RD Tidalgo said.
Tidalgo assured that these MSMEs will be assisted through the Department’s livelihood seeding programs that will provide starter kits to “help MSMEs recover from their loss.”
Tidalgo also added that a special no-interest loan window under the Department’s financing arm Small Business Corporation (SB Corp), will soon be opened to cater to the MSMEs and other agricultural and tourism-based businesses.
“We have so far profiled 200 MSMEs in
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