Liloan To Provide Job Opportunities For Residents Affected By Pandemic
JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN LILOAN – The coronavirus pandemic has affected millions of Filipinos. Luckily, in these trying times, the municipality of Liloan launched “Liloan Works”.
This program was created to aid those who are struggling with finances due to unemployment caused by the pandemic. Based on an article from Cebu Daily News, the program would be funded from local funds.
Moreover, the system would be based on cash for work and food for work components. As per the article, the advisory from the municipality of Liloan stated:
Our Local Government will help and at the same time, we give people the opportunity to help themselves, and to reclaim unto their lives the dignity of work.
Those who want to apply for the program would be assigned to urban farming, cleaning of streets, rivers, and shorelines; mangrove, fruit, and forest trees planting, and other environmental efforts.
For residents of Liloan, this program would be a win-win situation with the environment being helped as well as the people in need.
Here is the list of those who can benefit from the program:
- A resident of Liloan, Cebu for at least 6 months and prior to July 2020
- Presently unemployed due to Enhanced Community Quarantine in Cebu City
- Presently without livelihood due to prohibition and/or regulation of public transportation during the pandemic
- 21-years-old and above, 60-years-old and below
- A household member who did not qualify of financial assistance from the national government
- Self-employed and whose livelihood has been severely affected by the pandemic
- Persons with no pre-existing conditions that would render one immunocompromised
- Persons with symptoms and not positive of COVID-19
Program application and profiling forms can be found at here for word file and here for the Jpeg file.
Beneficiaries must be registered voters and would be tasked to render four hours of work a day for a span of eight days. Along with this, they would be paid P250/day for a total of P2,000.
They could also avail of the food for work program wherein four hours of work would be equal to 25 kilos of rice. This would be available for those living in northern Cebu for at least 6 months and requires no voter registration.
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