Goal: Get 6M Pinoys out of poverty 3 SHARES Share it! Bautista attributed the substantial decrease in poverty incidence by focusing on four priority areas namely, education, health, social protection, and rural poverty. Almost 25 percent of displaced workers were provided with financial assistance, training, livelihood, emergency employment, and employment facilitation services. Complementing the efforts of DOLE, DSWD also offers the Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP). About P300 million of livelihood assistance were distributed to more than 19,000 IDPs.

Source: Manila Bulletin July 21, 2019 06:45 UTC