The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is planning to conduct the pilot implementation of the administration’s meals stamps applications in municipalities affected by battle and calamities, Secretary Rex Gatchalian stated Wednesday.
In a media discussion board, Gatchalian stated the pilot run will final for six months and is aimed to assist no less than 3,000 households from focused communities together with the Bangsamoro Region and the Caraga Region.
“Were still fine-tuning it kasi nasa loob pa kami ng design stage pero ang ina-identify ng World Food Program (WFP) ay dapat iba-iba sila ng anyo na lugar,” the official informed reporters on the Kapihan sa Manila Bay.
(We’re nonetheless fine-tuning as a result of we’re nonetheless on the design stage however the WFP stated it needs to be municipalities of various modalities.)
“‘Yung isa BARMM kasi former conflict area, mataas ang poverty incidence. Two, calamity-stricken areas that’s why we’re an LGU (native authorities unit) in CARAGA, after which ‘yung isa hinahanap namin geographically disadvantaged and isolated areas. It could be a mountain municipality or an island municipality,” he said.
(One of the communities we’re considering is BARMM because it was a former conflict area and has a high poverty incidence. Second is calamity-stricken areas, hence, Caraga, and then geographically disadvantaged and isolated areas. It could be a mountain municipality or an island municipality.)
“We’re additionally learning city poor clusters kasi alam natin na ang pockets of poverty ay city sector,” Gatchalian added.
(We’re additionally learning city poor clusters as a result of we all know that the pockets of poverty are within the city sector.)
Dubbed as “Walang Gutom 2027: Food Stamp Program,” the challenge goals to help focused households to deal with involuntary starvation within the nation.
The DSWD earlier stated it could present “electronic benefit transfer (EBT) cards” that might be loaded with meals credit amounting to P3,000 per 30 days to buy a choose listing of meals commodities from the DSWD registered or accredited native retailers.
“We’re empowering them. Papapuntahin sa grocery, papipiliin sila, (we’ll let them go to groceries) we’re giving them the power to choose,” Gatchalian stated.
The official reiterated the Asian Development Bank prolonged $3 million for its pilot implementation and stated it could want P40 billion to proceed this system. He additionally expressed hope extra Filipino households will profit from it after the six-month preliminary run.
“After 6 months, hopefully, we can grow it to 300,000, then another 300,000, and hopefully 1 million after another year,” he added.
Pilot run to begin in July
The DSWD stated the pilot implementation will begin subsequent month, Dano Tingcungco reported on “24 Oras.”
Meanwhile, Gatchalian additionally shared some circumstances for the beneficiaries below this system together with attending diet lessons and having one employed member of the family who can later take expertise improve coaching below the Department of Labor and Employment, or Technical Education and Skills Development Authority.
“Part of the conditionalities ng meals stamps is to attend diet lessons… FNRI or the Food and Nutrition Research Institute has come out with a cookbook the place a meal for a household of 5 may price simply P50 pesos per meal that’s nutritious and scrumptious,” he stated.—LDF, GMA Integrated News
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