DOLE’s WIN-AP provides Livelihood Opportunities to
Clark Freeport Zone, Pampanga – With efforts to address the continuous rise inprices of basic commodities and services by providingadditional source of income for industrial workers, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Regional Office No. 3, recently provided livelihood assistance to the Workers Association of the Mimosa Golf and Country Club.
DOLE Regional Director Raymundo G. Agravante reported to Labor Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz that the DOLE Pampanga Field Office awarded a livelihood assistance amounting to P300,000 benefiting 495 members of the Association of Clark Mimosa Employees (ACME).
Present to award the ACME are DOLE Pampanga Field Office head Arlene Tolentino and DOLE RO3 Technical Support and Services Division for Employment and Welfare head Nely Punzalan, together with Labor and Employment Officers Aurita Layug and Fidel Gonzales.
Aside from the DOLE, Mimosa Golf and Montevista Villas Management Acting General Manager Teresito T. Tiotuyco and Mimosa ACME Union President Reynaldo L. Geron were also present to witness the event.
According to Tolentino, the ACME is a duly-recognized labor organization since May 21, 2008. Initially, the group sold rice to their members through a salary deduction scheme and eventually decided to venture it a business due to its viability, thus, the launching of the DOLE-assisted Mimosa ACME Rice Trading Project.
“Through the DOLE’s Workers Income Augmentation Program (WIN-AP), we are hopeful, just like with our other wage-worker beneficiaries, that this start-up capital will also be able to help the ACME succeed in their livelihood enhancement project,”Tolentino said.
Tolentino also noted that this developmental and income augmentation program initiative will provide workers group the opportunity to improve their living conditions through the management of their small business.
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