Over 77K families get aid from Bangsamoro Sagip Kabuhayan program

COTABATO CITY (PIA)—Over 77,000 indigent families affected by calamities in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao have received assistance from the Ministry of Social Services and Development’s Bangsamoro Sagip Kabuhayan (BSK) program.

Qualified beneficiaries receive P15,000 each, which includes training in basic financial management.

BSK is one of MSSD’s programs that aims to improve the well-being of poor and vulnerable households in the Bangsamoro region by providing them with training and seed capital.

During the recent episode of the Talakayang Dose radio program of the Philippine Information Agency in Region 12, Asnaira Mokamad Pagayao-Laba, focal person of the Family and Community Welfare Program of the MSSD, said that the BSK program has provided seed capital to the beneficiaries, including other forms of assistance.

Ang Bangsamoro Sagip Kabuhayan ay isa sa mga programa ng MSSD. Ito po ay isang livelihood assistance program na kung saan binibigyan natin ng seed capital ang ating benepisyaryo nang sa ganun ay makapagsimula sila ng kanilang business or small enterprise,” she said.

(The BSK is a livelihood assistance program where we provide seed capital to our beneficiaries so that they can start their business or small enterprises.)

Pagayao-Laba said that the BSK program began during the pandemic to assist small entrepreneurs whose businesses were hit hardest by the pandemic.

BSK started during the height of the pandemic. We observed a significant impact on numerous individuals, particularly those whose small businesses serve as their primary source of income. Thus, the word implies a desire to preserve livelihoods, she added.

She also emphasized that the program aims to support the nutrition and education of college-level members of beneficiary households.

Noong nasa minimal risk na tayo ng pandemic may pagbabago tayong ginawasa programa kung saan gingawa nating mas holistic ang ating programa sa pamamagitan ng pagbibigay ng monthly rice subsidyequivalent to cash, training, educational assistance sa kanilang anak, at scale up para sa mga benepisyaryo na talagang nagpakita ng exemplary performance sa pagpapalago ng kanilang business amounting to 20,000,” Pagayao-Laba added.

(After the pandemic reached a minimal risk, we made changes to our program to make it more holistic. These changes included providing a monthly rice subsidy equivalent to cash, providing training and educational assistance for the beneficiaries’ children, and scaling up for those who truly demonstrated exemplary performance in growing their businesses to 20,000.)

With this, the MSSD-BARMM aims to assist more qualified and deserving beneficiaries of the BSK program from various parts of the region. (LTB – PIA Cotabato City)

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