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| Summer Job Opportunity – Local gov’t-designate DOLE staff Josie Casiple (front left) present before Mayor Reynaldo ‘Bong’ Constantino, members of the SB and department heads Monday, the 80 student-recipients of the LGU and DOLE-funded Special Program for Employment of Students (SPES) in Malungon, Sarangani Province. (JoJo Gocotano – MALUNGON INFORMATION OFFICE) . |
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| SPES – Summer job recipients of LGU and DOLE funded Special Program for Employment of Students (SPES) keenly join LGU workers in the customary Monday flag-raising ceremony, as they report for a 30 days work in Malungon, Sarangani Province. (JoJo Gocotano – MALUNGON INFORMATION OFFICE. |
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| Student workers - Photo shows the flock of Special Program for Employment of Students (SPES) beneficiaries as they gather to join the customary Monday flag raising ceremony in Malungon, Sarangani Province. (JoJo Gocotano – MALUNGON INFORMATION OFFICE). |
MALUNGON, Sarangani – The local government here posted another new batch of student workers for a 30-day summer job opportunity under the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE12)-led Special Program for Employment of Students (SPES) this year.
Cristina Constantino-Lapaz, the local PESO manager and Mayor Reynaldo F. Constantino’s chief of staff, said at least 100 SPES beneficiaries were absorbed for work by the local government this summer, starting April 21 – June 2, 2014. Public Employment Service Office or PESO is the implementing arm of DOLE in the local government offices.
SPES, as mandated under Republic Act no. 7323, is a DOLE-designed program which aims to help the poor but deserving students pursue their studies, by means of short term employment in the local government during summer and or Christmas vacation period.
“The new group of SPES beneficiaries is composed of 20 students that are being financed by the provincial government of their tasked 20 days work; while the rest 80 learners are from right here in the locality. Sixty percent of their P231.00/day pay will be chargeable to the LGU, while the remaining 40% will be provided by the Labor Department in the whole duration of 30 days,” Lapaz said.
Lapaz said despite of the decrees in number of recipients as compared to much higher number of student workers in the previous years, the LGU-DOLE partnership would somehow be able to provide local learners of what they need during the upcoming opening of classes.
She said this program is part of the Constantino administration’s quest of alleviating poverty by stabilizing the local education system in its remote villages, and by extending chances to poor but worthy students to finish tertiary or any of technical courses in different educational institutions that are located in the nearby cites of Davao and General Santos. (Isagani Palma/ mio-malungon).
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