Sunday, December 16, 2018

NAPC exec sees 14% poverty rate falloff in 2022

President Duterte’s says that the anti-poverty campaign of the government has confidently implemented in the country whittled down to 14% in 2022, “ due to occurring government services through the help of 14 government sectors continously.”

The country’s poverty incidence currently stands at 21.6% as of today.

National Anti-Poverty Commission Secretary and led Convenor Noel K. Felongco said,  NAPC has figured out a formula---that combines social reform agenda and poverty reduction activities-- to sustain government services through some line agencies and other government sectors.

Felongcon said, NAPC programs and activities were supported by the President Rodrigo Duterte and former Special Assistant to the President Christopher "Bong" Go, "like the Malasakit Centers, a one-stop medical center established in 10 cities established by the  President Rodrigo  Duterte with Bong Go in a crucial role to help the poor among the poorest people in the country he added.

Felongco said the projects has been unveiled in Manila on December 7 with at least 10 government agencies participating to include agencies under the Department of Health, Department of Labor and Employment, Department of Agriculture, Department of Agrarian Reform, Department of Justice and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

TESDA unveiled a jobs fair, the DOH provided free medicine and consultation, the public attorney’s office gave consultation and notary services, the DA giving free seeds for urban gardening, the BFAR taught fish culture and  while the participating local government unit hosted the event, provided the venue and food and  among other.

During the activity, both parties and other participating agencies signed a Memorandum of Understanding to support the NAPc's programs and activities.

The approached will be replicated in the regions where “the country’s 40 top most poverty's poverty stricken provinces are located which includes regions has most 10 poorest municipalities and  10  poorest barangay's nationwide.

The NAPC has an  ultimate goal and  programs to determined and engage the 14 basic sectors like: urban poor, farmers, fisherfolk, labor and informal labor, workers and informal workers, women, persons with disabilities, victims of disasters and calamities, children, senior citizens, non-government organizations, cooperatives and the top 40 poverty-stricken provinces, said Felongco.

President Rodrigo  Duterte instructed the NAPC Executive Atty. Keith Felongco to gave priority and good approach to the affected provinces, addressing the basic needs in order to reduce the poverty problem in the country.


Felongco also said, his office will do the best thing for the immediate falloff of poverty problem in the country while the President continue to his campaign against illegal drugs and other criminalities to give way of his total reform of the country. (with report by Mark Navales)

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