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Livelihood gitunol sa Kadingilan, Bukidnon

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Isa ka livelihood turnover ceremony ang nahigayon sa Kadingilan, Bukidnon niadtong Setyembre 29, 2023

Ang turnover gipahigayon sa Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) X – Bukidnon Provincial Field Office (BukPFO) pinaagi sa DOLE Integrated Livelihood Program (DILP).

Sumala sa pahibalo sa DOLE-X BukPFO, adunay 47 ka ginikanan sa child laborers ang nakadawat sa working capital nga mikabat sa Php15,000.00.

Ang livelihood project nagtumong sa pagdugang ug pagsuporta sa kita sa mga benepisyaryo, sa pagpasiugda sa self-employment, ug sa pagpagaan sa negatibong epekto sa nagpadayong pandemya. (Omar Rashid Z. Abdullah)

TUPAD payout gipahigayon sa Bukidnon

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Ang Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE-X) Bukidnon Provincial Field Office (BukPFO) mipahigayon sa Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged Workers (TUPAD) payout sa Bukidnon

Base sa pahibalo sa DOLE-X BukPFO, ang payout gipahigayon sa duha ka lungsod sa Bukidnon niadtong Setyembre 28, 2023.

Mikabat sa Php1,559,250.00 ang kinatibuk-an nga kantidad sa salary wages ang natugyan sa 385 ka mga benepisyaryo sa New Terminal, Talakag, Bukidnon.

Samtang adunay 426 ka mga benepisyaryo ang nakadawat sa mikabat sa Php1,725,300.00 nga salary wage didto sa Municipal Gymnasium, Cabanglasan, Bukidnon.

Gitaho nga ang matag benepisyaryo nakadawat og Php4,050 alang sa ilang 10-day work nga sweldo.

Ang TUPAD isa ka community-based package of assistance nga naghatag og emergency work para sa mga displaced, underemployed, ug seasonal nga mga trabahante. (MG Mayumi B. Madera)

Livelihood gi-turnover ngadto sa Weavers’ Association sa Malaybalay

Posted on by Diego M. Hidalgo

Ang Sunflower Weavers’ Association sa Barangay Manalog ning dakbayan sa Malaybalay nakadawat sa mga materyales alang sa Abaca Weaving Project

Base sa pahibalo sa City Government of Malaybalay, ang seremonya nahigayon uban sa pakig-koordinasyon sa LGU Malaybalay pinaagi sa Public Employment Service Office (PESO).

Gitaho nga ang gi-turnover nga mga materyales sa Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) mikantidad og Php300,000.00.

Ang maong kalihukan gitambongan ni City Administrator ug PESO Manager Atty. Anna Marie R. Bergado, Jomel Capoy – First United Puntian Farmers Association (FIPUFA) President, Jan Niño Pabillaran – City Agriculture Extension Officer, ug mga miyembro sa Sunflower Weavers’ Association.

Ang proyekto gitunol ngadto sa mga miyembro sa asosasyon sa tinguha nga makapadayon sila sa paghabi ug pagtahi aron makabuhat og daghang mga produkto alang sa ilang panginabuhian. (Diego M. Hidalgo)

120 jobseekers, hired on the spot sa Job Fair sa Malaybalay

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Kinatibuk-ang 120 ka jobseekers ang na ‘Hired on the Spot” sa napahigayon nga Local ug Overseas Job Fair sa Malaybalay niadtong Sept. 04, 2023

Base sa pahibalo sa City Government sa Malaybalay, malampusong napahigayon ang job fair uban sa kooperasyon sa Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Bukidnon.

Ang Local ug Overseas Job Fair gipahigayon sa People’s Hall, New City Hall, sa Casisang, ning dakbayan.

Labaw sa 20 ka lokal nga mga kompanya ug lima ka mga overseas nga ahensya, ang naghatag og oportunidad nga adunay kapin 3,000 ka mga bakanteng trabaho.

Gitaho nga adunay 440 ka mga jobseekers ang nagparehistro sa kalihokan. (Diego M. Hidalgo)

Bukidnon has 15,000 child laborers, says DOLE

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CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY — Bukidnon has close to 15,000 child laborers, making it the province in Northern Mindanao with the highest number, according to the Department of Labor and Employment in Region 10 (DOLE-10)

DOLE defines “child labor” as including “hazardous work … which encompasses undesirable activities or work done in a hazardous environment,” and “work done for long hours of more than 40 hours and/or night time or the entire day.”

These children are working in the farms, doing domestic work, fishing, or even in construction, a DOLE-10 report emailed to MindaNews said.

The report, which profiled child laborers during the period 2018 to 2021, said that of Northern Mindanao’s five provinces, Bukidnon gained the top spot with 14,790 child laborers.

It is followed by Misamis Oriental with 10,382 (aside from the 7,793 child laborers in Cagayan de Oro City, the province’s capital), Lanao del Norte with 9,014, Misamis Occidental with 3,979, and Camiguin with 1,902.

In all of Region 10, DOLE-10 reported a total of 47,860 child laborers, 28,930 of whom are males and 18,930 females.

In terms of age bracket, the 15-17 range has the highest at 35,298, followed by 10-14 with 11,665.

“Notably, all provinces have child laborers aged 3 to 4 years old, with the highest prevalence in Camiguin and Cagayan de Oro, with 17 and 13, respectively,” said the DOLE-10 report.

“The desire of these children to help their parents is very strong that from school or after waking up in the morning, they would go to the fields to do manual work,” said Erlinda Sayago, executive director of the Kaanib Foundation, during a press conference here Wednesday.

Kaanib Foundation, DOLE-10, and the Child Fund Philippines are helping to decrease the number of child labor in Bukidnon and other Northern Mindanao provinces.

“It’s very hard to eradicate child labor in an economy relying on agriculture,” said lawyer Russel Jallorina, assistant regional director of DOLE-10.

Jallorina said work is readily available in Bukidnon’s agricultural fields, considered the food basket of Northern Mindanao where poverty incidence is among the highest in the country.

Sayoga said that aside from helping raise the income of their family, the children also look for work to pay for their school needs like notebooks and pens.

“When the schools went for online classes during the COVID-19 pandemic, it was hell for the children. Many opted to look for work instead of attending the online classes where they have to pay for the Internet,” she added.

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), in a report released July 25, 2023, said that there were 1.48 million working children aged 5 to 17 in 2022, or about 4.7 percent of the total population of 31.71 million.

Of these working children, DOLE said that 828,000 are considered engaged in child labor.

The number, DOLE noted, is lower than in 2021, when child laborers numbered 935,000.

Across regions, Region 12 (Soccsksargen) has the highest proportion of child laborers at 12.5 percent. Northern Mindanao is at the fourth spot, with 9.4 percent. Central Visayas is second at 10.5 percent, followed by the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region at 10.4 percent. (Froilan Gallardo / MindaNews)

Kadiwa ng Pangulo gilusad sa Bukidnon

Posted on by Omar Rashid Z. Abdullah

Nakighiusa ang Provincial Government of Bukidnon (PGB) sa paglusad sa KADIWA ng Pangulo 2023 sa Bukidnon

Ang PGB nipahibalo nga ang paglusad gipahigayon niadtong Hulyo 17, 2023, sa Kaamulan Park, sa dakbayan sa Malaybalay.

Gitimbayayongan kini sa Office of the President, Department of Agriculture, Department of Trade and Industry, Department of Labor and Employment, Department of Social Welfare and Development, ug uban pang ahensya sa gobyerno, ingon man sa pribadong sektor.

Ang KADIWA ng Pangulo inisyatibo ni President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., nga nagtinguha sa isa ka halapad nga han-ay sa barato ug taas nga kalidad nga mga produkto sa agrikultura gikan sa mga lokal nga mag-uuma.

Misalmot sa KnP 2023 ang Lantapan Vegetable Farmers MPC, Pure Gold Valencia, Bukidnon KMME Association, Patpat Madasigon Sustainable Livelihood Program Association, Igpanuyadug sa Abaga Ta Bayug Farmers Association, National Food Authority, DTI assisted MSMEs ug mga Provincial Winners sa Gawad Saka ug young farmers.

Magpadayon sa matag adlaw’ng Huwebes ang KADIWA on wheels diha sa Kaamulan park. (Omar Rashid Z. Abdullah)

3 Bukidnon people’s organizations receive P750,000 livelihood aid

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THREE people’s organizations (POs) in Malitbog town, Bukidnon, have received P750,000 worth of livelihood assistance from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)-Northern Mindanao

The recipient organizations, who received P250,000 worth of livelihood kits on July 3, 2023, were San Migara Tingag United Women’s Association (SMITUWA), Sitio Logdeck Higaonon Farmers Association (SILOHFA), and

Sitio Victory Higaonon Farmers Association (SVHFA).

The livelihood kits, provided through the DOLE Integrated Livelihood Program (DILP), are for their consumer store, rice trading business, and agrivet and farm supply store, respectively.

According to the 16th Infantry Battalion, these POs were formerly organized sectors of the Communist-NPA Terrorists (CNT) in isolated communities.

Mario Senagonia, president of the SVHFA, expressed his gratitude to DOLE-Northern Mindanao, the 16IB, and the local government unit of Malitbog, who collaborated with DOLE to grant and facilitate their livelihood project.

Senagonia added that the kits will create more jobs and provide sustainable income to the members of their organization.

Earlier this year, DOLE-Northern Mindanao handed over P360,000 worth of livelihood kits to former rebels and another P375,000 worth of livelihood kits to the parents of child laborers. (Sunstar)

Line agencies in Normin ink MOA to eradicate child labor

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CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY — Various government agencies gathered on June 12 at SM CDO Downtown Premier and inked a memorandum of agreement, reviving the Regional Council Against Child Labor

This concerns the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DOLE) organization of the World Day Against Child Labor.
DOLE-10 Regional Director Estrella U. Pahalla said the commemoration will boost awareness of the plight of child laborers through the revival of the Regional Council Against Child Labor (RCACL), a convergence of various government regional line agencies.
DOLE-10 spearheaded the Batang Malaya Photo Exhibit, showcasing the photos of child laborers taken during region-wide profiling.
Moreover, the activity featured the DOLEkula Film Festival Season Three Awarding Ceremony, a one-minute DOLE-10-wide digital film competition among its units that articulately interprets a Filipino child’s story against child labor activities with artistic integrity.
Other than these, a Serbisyo Karaban, a one-stop-shop for RCACL member agencies offering their respective programs and services in line with preventing and eliminating child labor, was also held. This would also demonstrate the country’s solidarity in the worldwide campaign against child labor.
According to Pahalla, DOLE-10 continuously upholds the rights of children, including their protection from all forms of abuse, neglect, cruelty, exploitation, discrimination, and other conditions prejudicial to their development, particularly child labor and its worst forms, through initiatives such as the Child Labor Prevention and Elimination Program (CLPEP).
CLPEP aims to remove children from child labor, particularly in its worst forms. Its strategies include the provision of livelihood grants to parents of child laborers through DILP, or the Kabuhayan Program. (DOLE-10/PIA-10)

DOLE-10 honors Bukidnon’s informal sector workers

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MALAYBALAY CITY – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)-10, through its Bukidnon Provincial Field Office (Buk PFO), recently conducted a learning session for workers in the informal sector in line with the 2023 Labor Day commemoration

The activity aims to provide and aid the workers in the informal sector under the Labor Day theme, “Pabahay, Bilihing Abot-Presyo, Benepisyo ng Matatag na Trabaho Para sa Manggagawang Pilipino.”
DOLE-10 BukPFO Provincial Director Raul L. Valmores reassures that DOLE, through its flagship programs and services, will continuously provide job-generation initiatives to workers in the informal sector.
“We in DOLE will continue collaborating with the different government agencies and Accredited Co-Partners (ACPs) so the individual and association beneficiaries can attain a sustainable livelihood,” Valmores said.
Nineteen association beneficiaries of the DOLE Integrated Livelihood Program (DILP) from a city and different municipalities in Bukidnon, including six ACPs, attended the event.
The Department of Trade and Industry Business Development Division Chief Jose Maureal discussed financial and organizational management with stakeholders of DOLE Integrated Livelihood.
“The success and sustainability of government programs depend on the maturity of the people’s organization that are empowered to become partners on project implementation,” Maureal said.
This initiative will help the association generate support in making critical financial decisions, improve the profitability of their organizations, guide the organizational structure, and ensure the alignment of employees with company policies.
The activity also included a learning session on simple bookkeeping from Abag Kalambuan Inc., Executive Director, Bienvenido Narciso, which included a workshop on simple bookkeeping to enhance knowledge of finances.
Narciso emphasized the importance of maintaining complete and accurate records of all financial transactions to ensure proper reflection in the book of accounts.
He emphasized that having basic bookkeeping knowledge is crucial as it enables easy maintenance of records and provides detailed information on expenses and income.
During the event, DILP released three livelihood starter kits, including a sari-sari store, Bigasan, and a video production project worth P70,000.
The Parents Mobilization Action Group (PMAG) was granted a total amount of P500,000 for their Consumer Store Enhancement Project.
Under Social Amelioration Program (SAP), the sugar workers received P24,000.
Each of the three beneficiaries received P8,000 for their maternity benefit claims.
All attendees pledged to support the government’s goal of transitioning informal sector workers into the formal economy, ensuring their protection under the law. They vowed to promote the welfare and decent work agenda of workers in the informal economy.
Valmores recognized the informal sector’s contribution to the country’s thrust toward a sustainable and inclusive economic recovery. (DOLE-10 Buk PFO/PIA-10/Bukidnon)

PWDs get P250-K in livelihood aid from DOLE-Bukidnon

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MALAYBALAY CITY – As part of its year-round turnover of livelihood grants to marginalized and disadvantaged informal workers in the province, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)-10, through Provincial Director Raul Valmores of Bukidnon Provincial Field Office (BukPFO), recently turned over livelihood assistance—with Abag Kalambuan Inc. (AKI) as the Accredited Co-Partner (ACP)—to Sinanglanan Parents and Persons with Disability Association (SiPaPDA)

The SiPaPDA, which consists of 21 parents and persons with disabilities (PWDs), chose Agrivet and Farm Supply as their livelihood project in the amount of P250,000 from the DOLE Integrated Livelihood Program (DILP).
Valmores said that through the DILP, the Department took various endeavors to help integrate marginalized and disadvantaged informal workers, including PWDs, into the mainstream and enable them to participate in its social and economic development.
Valmores also acknowledged Malaybalay local government and its Public Employment Service Office (PESO) for their continued support as DOLE’s program partner.
Malaybalay City Mayor Jay Warren Pabillaran urged the recipients to use the grants wisely. He assured them that the city government stands ready to help those in need.
In the meantime, AKI Chairperson Bienvenido Narciso Jr. has expressed his confidence in the beneficiaries’ ability to meet their daily needs with the livelihood grant. He underscored the importance of maximizing it to create a positive ripple effect, benefiting not only themselves but also enabling them to extend help to others in need.
Virgilio Arenido, SiPaPDA president, is grateful for the opportunity to change their lives. He said the association could now meet the daily needs of their families while also creating employment opportunities in their community.
“We are thankful to DOLE for giving us, the PWDs, a chance in life. We thank the government for this tailored project for marginalized groups. Indeed, the government sees us and has not forgotten us,” Arenido said.
Prior to the turnover, the group attended skill-building sessions such as financial literacy and basic entrepreneurship. The DOLE designed the training to provide SiPaPDA with the knowledge and skills needed to manage livelihood endeavors.
The DOLE Livelihood Development Specialists will continue to monitor the associations and their livelihood activities after the turnover. This step makes sure that technical support is guiding the association.
The DOLE has always been a staunch advocate for promoting the rights of people with disabilities, protecting their rights, and promoting the economic empowerment of people with disabilities.
DILP, or the Kabuhayan Program of DOLE, is a flagship program of the agency that aims to help marginalized groups such as self-employed workers who are unable to earn sufficient income, unpaid family workers, low-waged and seasonal workers, workers displaced or to be displaced, marginalized and landless farmers, marginalized fisherfolk, women and youth, persons with disabilities, senior citizens, indigenous peoples, victims of armed conflicts, rebel returnees, and parents of child laborers. (DOLE-10 Buk PFO/PIA-10/Bukidnon)