Pantawid Pamilya Captured
Pantawid Households Captured By Rolendo A. Dosol, PDO II – FO Caraga The Department of Social Welfare and Development, through its Pantawid Pamilya Program provides cash grants to support its beneficiaries’ health and education. Each family receives a maximum of P500 for health and P1,500 for education. In the municipality of Gigaquit, Surigao del Norte, Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries comprise 84% of its total household count (1,254 out of 1,492 HHs). During its opening on August 4, 2014
Upon receipt of the cash grants, the beneficiaries would usually spend it to buy household needs such as rice, canned goods, meat, school supplies, etc. Realizing that they can be their own captive
The Federation acts as the sure market for its member SKAs by consolidating their produce and selling it in the grocery store.
market, the members of the Gigqauit SEA-K Federation decided to establish a grocery store offering the same variety of goods while providing patronage refunds and dividends to encourage patronage among the members. As a selling proposition, the federation sells its
Processed meats from Ipil SKA
Rice from San Antonio SKA
goods at prices lower than those of the other two competing stores whose owners are non-Pantawid. “Sometimes looking for a market to serve does not mean looking outside. Sometimes you just have to look at each other…we can be our own captive market” says Juliet Mara, Gigaquit SEA-K
Vegetables and pork from Villaflor SKA
Federation President.
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