LEGAZPI CITY, Albay (PIA) – At least 3,698 informal workers in Legazpi City and Guinobatan town in this province benefitted from the emergency employment under the Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers (TUPAD) program of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on February 8 and 9.
The DOLE allotted a total of P13,497,700 for the program where each beneficiary would receive P3,650 in wages for a 10-day community service in their respective areas. The beneficiaries included small vendors, farmers, drivers, fisherfolk, laborers, and women earning insufficient income engaged in community service.
The DOLE said that the work program focused on social community projects, such as repair, maintenance, and/or improvement of common public facilities and infrastructures in schools and health centers, debris clearing, de-clogging of canals, debris segregation, and materials recovery, stockpiling and clearing, waste management, coastal clean-up drive, and community vegetable gardening.
Beneficiaries in mountainous areas engaged in tree planting, road clearing, community gardening, and clean-up drives. Meanwhile, those along the coastal areas participated in coastal clean-up and community gardening.
Informal workers in Guinobatan town in Albay receive assistance under the DOLE’s TUPAD program on February 9, 2023. (Photo courtesy of DOLE Bicol)
LEGAZPI CITY, Albay (PIA) – At least 3,698 informal workers in Legazpi City and Guinobatan town in this province benefitted from the emergency employment under the Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers (TUPAD) program of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on February 8 and 9.
The DOLE allotted a total of P13,497,700 for the program where each beneficiary would receive P3,650 in wages for a 10-day community service in their respective areas. The beneficiaries included small vendors, farmers, drivers, fisherfolk, laborers, and women earning insufficient income engaged in community service.
The DOLE said that the work program focused on social community projects, such as repair, maintenance, and/or improvement of common public facilities and infrastructures in schools and health centers, debris clearing, de-clogging of canals, debris segregation, and materials recovery, stockpiling and clearing, waste management, coastal clean-up drive, and community vegetable gardening.
Beneficiaries in mountainous areas engaged in tree planting, road clearing, community gardening, and clean-up drives. Meanwhile, those along the coastal areas participated in coastal clean-up and community gardening.
