{"id":261688,"date":"2025-11-28T16:42:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T08:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wonderful-indigo-elk.62-72-47-242.cpanel.site\/?p=261688"},"modified":"2025-11-28T16:42:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T08:42:51","slug":"more-than-300-caraga-workers-get-php14-2-million-dole-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/?p=261688","title":{"rendered":"More Than 300 Caraga Workers Get PHP14.2 Million DOLE aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) distributed more than PHP14.2 million in grants to 41 micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the Caraga Region on Thursday, benefiting 336 workers.<\/p>\n<p>The financial assistance, extended through DOLE&#8217;s Adjustment Measures Program, aims to help businesses withstand economic disruptions and preserve jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe DOLE 13 (Caraga) wants to ensure that employment will continue and the business of our MSMEs will flourish to generate more employment,\u201d Regional Director Jason Balais said.<\/p>\n<p>Grant amounts ranged from PHP300,000 to PHP400,000 per enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>Createabilities Therapy Services, Inc. (CTSI), which serves 85 special needs children, received PHP400,000 for facility upgrades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thankful to the government for the financial support and for ensuring the welfare of workers,\u201d CTSI administrator Joanna Avila said. (PNA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 300 workers gained livelihood support through the assistance rollout, helping stabilize their incomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":261689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19565],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business-today"],"zyndk8_nxtgen_metadata":{"nxtgen_comments":[{"6118":"ctsi siguradong ganda na ng facility nila soon \ud83e\udde1","6119":"nakaka proud support ng DOLE sa caraga workers \ud83d\udc99\ud83d\udd25"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261690,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261688\/revisions\/261690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/261689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}