00:00To continue to help the tourism workers affected by the calamities,
00:04the Department of Tourism and the Department of Social Welfare and Development
00:08has issued a Memorandum of Agreement.
00:10Under the program,
00:11it is included in the priority to provide various assistance to the workers in the tourism sector
00:16affected by various calamities.
00:19The DOT will provide skills training such as farm tourism training,
00:23community-based culinary, and basic healing or massage.
00:27While the DSWD will provide cash assistance to the tourism workers
00:31who they consider to be marginalized and vulnerable.
00:36Our mandate to ensure that we provide social protections
00:42to our tourism workers and frontliners should disasters ensue.
00:48Tourism workers affected by recent calamities
00:50and are also under the list 103 or poverty list
00:54also reflects our commitment to helping our fellow citizens recover,
00:58rebuild, and emerge stronger from these difficult times.
