Anti-poverty program Angat Buhay benefited 622,000 households –OVP

by way of LLANESCA T. PANTI, GMA news

posted January three, 2022 5:51pm

vp Leni Robredo workplace's Angat Buhay program, which implements anti-poverty initiatives with support from the private sector, impacted around 622,000 Filipino families since 2016.

The workplace of the vp (OVP) observed in a Monday statement that the households that benefited from Angat Buhay initiatives had been from 223 cities and municipalities.

The program become supported with the aid of 372 corporations and, as of December 2021, bought P520 million in funding from numerous sources even though generally from private sector donations.

"The figures cowl Angat Buhay's pretty much six years of extending counsel to marginalized households by means of bringing together the public and private sector to work on key advocacy areas: meals protection and food; general healthcare; public training; rural development; housing and resettlement; and early life and ladies empowerment," the OVP mentioned.

"The program also coated catastrophe reduction and rehabilitation and response to the COVID-19 pandemic."

Angat Buhay advice lined the following:

P146.eighty three million in donations from the deepest sector and P85.25 million pesos in reduction suggestions have been provided via the OVP for those in calamity areas corresponding to within the Taal explosion, those affected by typhoon Nina in 2016, and residents of areas hit by using typhoon Odette

the Swab Cab (free mobile RT-PCR COVID-19 testing in communities with incentives) which confirmed 9,757 people in communities with excessive transmission rates

the COVID-19 Vaccine categorical which mobilized frontliners to support local government contraptions in their vaccination programs

the Bayanihan E-Konsulta which aided hospitals via telemedicine

provision of 35,656 extraction and detection kits for aid in making a choice on COVID-19 superb people

the OVP's group Mart which helped forty one tricycle drivers and 248 vendors in Pasig and Quezon city

Sikap.Ph which provided access to jobs for those who lost employment amid the pandemic

provision of devices for schoolchildren and the institution of neighborhood gaining knowledge of Hubs

P82.14 million mobilized for health initiatives in 124 localities, akin to a mental clinic in San Remigio, Cebu, in addition to x-ray machines and drugs with the assist of Solanaland basis and ANCOP basis united states.

forty four tasks price P39.forty nine million that were initiated to address malnutrition in Lambunao, Iloilo with the cooperation of the Negrense Volunteers for exchange groundwork, Inc.

construction of eighty one school rooms and five dormitories price P122.96 million to support students in locations like Siayan, Zamboanga del Norte where the dormitory become developed in partnership with the Yellow Boat of Hope foundation

provision of scholarships and talents training to greater than 120 Filipino adolescence as well as 138 ladies entrepreneurs who got access to livelihood opportunities, together with startup capital and mentoring from experts, throughout the Angat Buhay Workshop for Aspiring ladies Entrepreneurs.

launching of #RespetoNaman, a crusade in opposition t gender-primarily based violence, rape, and sexual harassment in conjunction with UN women, Embassy of Sweden, SPARK Philippines, and Empower and initiation of Babaenihan Talks to address teenage pregnancies in terrible communities

P15.39 million value of livelihood counsel grew to become over to 156 fisherfolk, famers, seamstresses, small businessmen, and riders in partnership with 33 authorised civil society businesses, including participants of PANGISDA Parañaque who received fish cages, boats, and different machine together with practising in fiscal and company administration, leadership, organizational constructing, and cooperative building

rural building projects protected the Omasenso sa Kabuhayan application where small farmers from Camarines Sur grew to become agri-preneurs and directly connected to larger markets for his or her produce, which now advantage 11 farmer groups and

the BAHAYanihan program in Bicol allotted P15.four million for development materials for americans dwelling in hazard zones in addition to donations from the deepest sector enabled the development of seventy two transitory shelters for the survivors of the fighting in Marawi.

Robredo said that she hoped to proceed such initiatives if she wins the 2022 presidential race.

"Meron na tayong vision na kapag tayong binigyan ng pagkakataon, ito 'yung Pilipinas na inaasahan natin: na 'yung mga naiiwan ay inaakay, 'yung mga nadadapa, ibinibitbit. 'Yung mga blessed ay sini-share yung blessing sa iba," Robredo stated.

(we now have a imaginative and prescient that, if given the probability, this may be the Philippines that we will expect: that these in the fringes might be aided, these struggling will be given a helping hand, and blessings should be shared.)

— DVM, GMA news