DTI Trains PWDs on Entrepreneurial Dev’t

Atleast 44 persons with disabilities (PWDs) recently completed the basic entrepreneurial development provided by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)-Isabela in partnership with the local govenrment of San Mateo, Isabela.

Romeo Panopio, Trade and Industry Development Specialist-DTI Isabela, said each PWD-participant received sari-sari store starter kits worth P20,000 from the Department of Labor and Employment.

Panopio said each starter kit consists of rice, instant noodles, coffee, sugar, condiments, laundry detergents, bath soaps, shampoo and other merchandise typically sold by sari-sari stores.

The Sari-Sari stores will be located at the respective residences of the PWD-beneficiaries, he added

“We will continue to harness the talents and skills of our PWDs here and provide the assistance they need to run their own businesses,” the DTI official added. (ALM/PIA-2/with report from Ellerie Mila Ramel, DTI-2 Supervising Trade and Industry Development Specialist)