A total of 17 Friends Rescued (FRs) living at the City Social Welfare and Development Office’s halfway house, Kalinaw Village, received their livelihood settlement grants last July 25, 2023 in Purok 9, Barangay Mahayag, Bunawan Davao City.
City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWDO) Julie Dayaday said that the issuance of the grant, which is part of the E-CLIP or the Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program, is a welcome development.
“Ang programang ito ay bahagi ng E-CLIP upang bigyan sila ng panibagong pag-asa at maipakita na ang national at lokal na gobyerno ay nagkakaisa sa pagbibigay ng tulong para sila ay makapagsimula ng panibagong buhay (This program is part of E-CLIP to give them a new life and to give them new hope that the local and the national government are one in providingn them help so they may start anew),” Dayaday said in her welcome speech.
Under the said program, each FR received a grant of Php 20,000. The grant is funded by the Department of Social Welfare and Development and distributed, in coordination with the CSWDO.
The ceremony for the Livelihood Settlement Grant Payout was also attended by DSWD XI Regional Director Atty. Vanessa Goc-ong, 1003rd Infantry Brigade reprsentative Major Ronel Legarde, Davao City Police Office (DCPO) representative P/Capt. April Love Cabañog, Asec Arnel B. Garcia CESO II of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Inclusive-Sustainable Peace and Special Concerns and Davao City Acting City Administrator Atty. Francis Mark Layog.
The E-CLIP is part of the Whole-of-Nation Approach of the government to end local communist armed conflict and is being implemented by virtue of Executive Order 70 or Institutionalizing the Whole-of-Nation Approach in Attaining Inclusive and Sustainable Peace, Creating a National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, and Directing the Adoption of a National Peace Framework. CIO
