Indigent vendors avail Nego Kart livelihood initiated by DOLE-Maasin City LGU

By ERNA GORNE
June 25, 2010

MAASIN CITY  –  Twenty local vendors here underwent two-days entrepreneurial and business meeting in preparation for them to avail the Negosyo sa Kariton livelihood program initiated by the Department of Labor and Employment -Southern Leyte Provincial Office in close coordination with the Maasin City local government unit thru the City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWDO).

The CSWDO here endorsed the selected indigent vendors qualified to avail the free financial assistance from the DOLE.

At P15,000 each worth of goods and materials, the same group of indigent vendors were released a total of P300,000 grant from the said department.

The identified indigent vendors are already engaged in different vending activities such as snack vending - barbecue, tempora vending, sari-sari stores and buy and sell like pasalubong, among others.

The beneficiaries were advised on how to run their business properly in order to sustain for a longer period, enterprise development and business management. The two-day entrepreneurial and business orientation last June 21-22 was facilitated by the DOLE staff led by Provincial Labor Extension Officer Norma Fe Valuis.

According to Valuis, the turn-over of the financial assistance to the beneficiaries has been scheduled on July 5, 2010 with the presence of Maasin City Mayor Maloney Samaco and DOLE-8 Regional Director Forter Puguon.