The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has provided livelihood starter kits to 58 farmers in Iloilo as part of the government's program to discourage local communities from supporting communist insurgency.
DOLE Region 6 director Sixto “Popoy” Rodriguez Jr., said the distributed livelihood
ASSISTANCE. Personnel of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Iloilo Field Office led by its head Melisa S. Navarra (3rd from left) talks with officers of the Manampunay Farmers Association on the sustainability of their proposed Rice and Farm Inputs Retailing Project following the turnover of their fund on Feb. 17, 2022. DOLE Information Officer John Mandario on Thursday (May 19, 2022), said monitoring of the progress of their funded projects is ongoing.(Photo courtesy of DOLE-6) ILOILO CITY - Sixteen barangays in Iloilo that have been cleared from the influence of communist insurgents are recipients of over PHP2 million in aid under the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Integrated Livelihood and Emergency Program (DILEEP) this 2022. Information officer John Mandario, in an interview on Thursday, said DOLE is one of the members of the Poverty Reduction Livelihood and Employment Cluster (PRLEC) of the Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (RTF-ELCAC