DISTRIBUTION. San Remigio Municipal Mayor Margarito Mission Jr. (proper) leads the distribution of the Livelihood Seeding Program-Negosyo Serbisyo sa Barangay 2021 beneficiaries in his hometown on Jan. 17, 2022. Department of Trade and Industry Antique provincial info officer Lynna Joy Cardinal mentioned on Thursday that this yr’s batch of 235 micro, small and medium entrepreneurs will likely be given livelihood kits via the identical program. (Photo courtesy of San Remigio LGU)

SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique – Livelihood kits price PHP3.eight million will likely be supplied by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to 235 certified micro, small and medium entrepreneurs (MSMEs) belonging to the 4th to fifth class municipalities in Antique.

DTI Antique provincial info officer Engineer Lynna Joy Cardinal, in an interview Thursday, mentioned they’re now within the strategy of profiling the beneficiaries for his or her Livelihood Seeding Program-Negosyo Serbisyo sa Barangay (LSP-NSB) who may every receive PHP15,000 price of livelihood package.

“With the help of the Barangay Development Council, we are in the process of profiling the MSMEs who had been affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) and those who are really in need of the livelihood kits,” she mentioned.

Cardinal mentioned the beneficiaries will come from the 57 barangays of the municipalities of Anini-y, Barbaza, Laua-an, Libertad, Pandan, Tibiao, Tobias Fornier, and Valderrama.

The livelihood kits have elevated from PHP6,000 final yr to PHP15,000 this 2022.

“The qualified beneficiaries will also be the ones who will identify the livelihood kits that will be given them,” she mentioned.

The forms of out there livelihood kits will solely be identified after the profiling although many of the beneficiaries selected the sari-sari retailer package deal final yr.

The DTI additionally distributed livelihood kits to 706 beneficiaries from 82 barangays within the fourth- to fifth-class municipalities in Antique in 2021.

The DTI targets to distribute the livelihood kits beginning June to August this yr since they nonetheless want to be procured.

Before the distribution of kits, the recipients will likely be oriented on fundamental entrepreneurship, monetary literacy, shopper rights and obligations, and DTI applications and companies. (PNA)