Livelihood and Training
We organize cooperatives and people’s organizations from our impact and non-impact communities. Meaningful support is provided in the form of social enterprise projects such as: Egg-laying and poultry projects, Seedling production and nursery, Agri-farming, Woodcraft-making, Chips-making, Handicraft/weaving production, Moringa powder/tea production, and T-shirt/Tarpaulin printing.
In 2021, PGMC launched a new livelihood program for DOLE-registered “Friends 2000 Peoples Organization ‘’ which is based in Barangay Cagdianao, Claver, Surigao del Norte. The Company provided a newly constructed store building, a vehicle, and grocery items that allowed the PO to open a store along the highway, contributing to the thriving barangay as it mostly caters to the wholesale market.
Furthermore, the local community organizations are provided with technical and financial assistance in the form of seminars, study tours, financial literacy classes, leadership and management training programs, capital funding, raw materials and equipment for production, and farm inputs for crop production.
We also continued to work with the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) to provide technical education and skills development to residents of neighboring communities. We constructed a skills training center and provided equipment that is utilized by TESDA participants and trainers. Support was given to graduates of the skills training center to establish an auto repair shop, providing employment to some of the graduates.
In addition, we established food security projects such as communal gardening, egg machines and aquaculture to address food insufficiency, encourage healthier food options and provide extra income to the project beneficiaries especially during the time of COVID-19 health pandemic
