Child laborers’ parents receive P927K worth of DOLE livelihood assistance

Some thirty-one parents of profiled child laborers from Barangay Bobon, this city were awarded with Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Livelihood Assistance amounting to Nine Hundred TwentySeven Thousand Three Hundred Sixty-Nine Pesos (Php 927,369.00) for the procurement of different tools and equipment for the individual projects of the beneficiaries. Grateful for the assistance, one parent shared,”Nagpasalamat mi ug dako sa DOLE sa ilang gihatag nga livelihood. Isa akong anak nga na profile nga Child Laborer diria sa among Barangay. Wala kami nag dahom na mapili among Barangay ug mahatagan ug dugang panginabuhian sa amo isip isa ka ginikanan. Dako kaayo ning tabang sa among pang adlaw adlaw na panginabuhian ug sa kommunidad dinhi sa among barangay (We are thankful to DOLE for providing us livelihood. My child was among the children who profiled as child laborer in our barangay. We were not expecting that our barangay would be chosen as one of the areas to benefit from this livelihood for us parents

of child laborers. This is really a great help to provide our daily needs, and here in our barangay).”

Amo kani ampingan ang Livelihood na among nadawat gikan sa ahensya sa DOLE. Salamat usab sa among Barangay Captain na kanunay ga supporta ug sa uban pang ahensya sa goberno naghatag niini nga grasya. Amo ni paningkamutan na mulambo pa aron sa mga umaabot aron wala nay anak namo mag laborer (We will take good care of this livelihood that we received from DOLE. Thank you also to our Barangay Captain for the constant support, as well as to other concerned agencies. We will do our best to improve this, so that our children will no longer be child laborer),” a parent added.

The Punong Barangay of Bobon, Aida C. Duran, together with DOLE Agusan del Norte Field Office (DOLE ADNFO) Head Keith C. Duran, Senior Labor and Employment Officer Maria Chelo Lucero, Livelihood Focal Jenelibeth E. Manzanares, and DOLE ADNFO support staff attended the said activity.

The DOLE Integrated Livelihood and Emergency Employment Programs (DILEEP) is a flagship program of the DOLE which seeks to contribute to poverty reduction and reduce the vulnerability to risks of the working poor, vulnerable and marginalized workers either through emergency employment, promotion of entrepreneurship, and community enterprises. Under its umbrella is the Kabuhayan or DOLE Integrated Livelihood Program (DILP). For this activity, the DOLE DILP aims to improve the economic activity of the family to meet the basic needs of their children and to eliminate child labor.(KJBA, LEOIII/FNLI/ PIA-Caraga)

PROVINCIAL NEWS

POPCOM campaigns family welfare

The Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM) continues its campaign for protect families under its program tagline “Ang Pamilyang Protektado, Panalo”,which underlined the importance of having a well-planned family for this will give greater opportunity and capacity to invest for the well-being and development of each family member – and will then become a more empowered human resource.

From September 26 to October 2, the POPCOM is celebrating the 30th National Family Week with theme, “Urbanisasyon at Pamilyang Pilipino: Magka-agapay sa Pagpapatibay at Pagpapaunlad ng Bansa.”

The celebration is a renewal to the call as one cohesive government institution as POPCOM and its partners move together towards healthy, empowered, and wellplanned Filipino families and communities.

POPCOM continued its advocacy of promoting and enhancing interactions among parents and their teenagers, encourages mothers and fathers to engage in open discussions, especially about topics on sex and sexuality, which are seen to help prevent incidences of pregnancy among young people, while the Commission recognized the demographic implications of early pregnancy among adolescents and its impact to development as well.

POPCOM urges its partners specifically the local government units to integrate provision of basic family planning and population development services in their respective capacity development agenda within the context of devolution – as part of the general welfare services enumerated under Local Government Code, Section 17. (May ann O. Escobal, POPCOM Caraga/PIA Caraga)