DAVAO CITY – Over 6,000 residents of the First District in Davao City will benefit from the cash-for-work project of the First Congressional District Office in coordination with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Kalahi-CIDSS program.

Cash-for-work is a short-term program that allows distressed/displaced people to gain temporary employment by engaging in or carrying out preparedness, mitigation, relief, rehabilitation, or risk reduction initiatives and activities in local communities or evacuation centers.

 

The recipients will collect P3,960 once they can complete the 10-day cash-for-work program. This is to address the adverse effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

There are 252 residents from Brgy. Langub, 378 from Brgy. Magtuod, 252 from Brgy. 18-B, 505 from Brgy. Dumoy, 1,673 from Brgy. Bucana, 378 from Brgy. 22C, 378 from Brgy. 21C, 252 from Brgy. 36D, 505 from Brgy. Matina Aplaya, 378 from Brgy. 8A, and 1,362 from Brgy. Talomo. They will receive their payout this month.

Duterte’s office said that the residents are employed temporarily to work such as cleaning and sanitizing public places and barangay offices; collective livestock, or vegetable and fruit gardening; cleaning vital roads, among others, before the payout.