DOLE: Parents of 3700 child laborers to get nearly P12-M in livelihood assistance

The parents of some 3,700 child laborers are due to get some P11.9 million in livelihood assistance, the Department of Labor and Employment said Monday.
 
DOLE Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said this covers parents about to transition from the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program and whose children may engage or go back to child labor.
 
“The government hopes that the 305,000 CCT beneficiaries in 17 regions about to graduate from the program will be self-sufficient by the end of the year. The DOLE, through the H.E.L.P. M.E. (health, education, livelihood, and prevention, protection, and prosecution, monitoring and evaluation) Convergence Program on Child Labor, will provide livelihood to parent-beneficiaries whose children are at risk of going back to child labor,” said Baldoz.
 
She said the P11.9 million in assistance aims to help the parents become self-sufficient.
 
The DOLE estimated 3,700 children may benefit from this assistance.
 
DOLE said the CCT program now includes families that have child laborers, especially those in hazardous occupations.
 
Families that wish to avail of the cash grant should have no child laborers.
 
Baldoz said the P11.9-million DOLE support to the CCT graduates represents five percent of the Workers Income Augmentation Program (WINAP) funds.
 
“The DOLE has set aside this amount and we will dovetail this with the H.E.L.P. M.E. Convergence Program on Child Labor and the DOLE’s Campaign for Child Labor-Free Barangays. We will work in convergence with the DSWD and our other partners,” she said.
 
She added the BWC will publish the names and addresses of the beneficiaries of this program for transparency.
 
Baldoz said the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has provided it a list of towns where the first batch of beneficiaries of the livelihood assistance comes from.
 
“Our DOLE regional offices have listed down the barangays for convergence with DSWD,” she said.
 
She added some DOLE regional offices have convened their Regional Child Labor Committees (RCLCs) to discuss the department’s engagement with DSWD. —KG, GMA News

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