00:00The sector of tourism industry is considered marginalized and vulnerable.
00:07That's why the Tourism Department and the Department of Social Welfare and Development
00:12passed an agreement to help the tourism workers affected by calamities.
00:18This is what Rod Lagusan wrote.
00:22To help the tourism workers affected by calamities,
00:26the Department of Tourism and the Department of Social Welfare and Development
00:30passed a Memorandum of Agreement.
00:32My secretary, Christina Garcia Frasco,
00:34under the program, is already part of the priority to help the affected tourism workers.
00:40This means that they are already a priority in the emergency cash transfers
00:44and cash for work program of the DSWD.
00:46What this partnership does is to institutionalize the mechanism
00:52to provide financial assistance as well as livelihood training
00:57so that the hardship of life, the end of calamity,
01:02can be given relief through continuous livelihood.
01:07The DOT will provide alternative livelihood training,
01:11including community-based culinary and basic health care.
01:14According to Frasco, this will help in the transition period
01:17by correcting calamities and recovery.
01:20Because the trade of a tourism worker is an alternative skill,
01:23it still has a livelihood.
01:25Meanwhile, the DSWD will provide cash assistance.
01:28According to Secretary Rex Gatchalian,
01:30tourism workers are considered marginalized and vulnerable.
01:34This is a big burden for tourism when it comes to the country's economy.
01:38It's not good enough to look at,
01:41but if we don't have citizens to manage our tourism destinations,
01:46we won't be able to unlock the value of our tourism destinations.
01:50We won't put a cap on it because you know that
01:53a part of the menu of the DSWD services
01:56is to help all those affected in these calamities.
02:00So we can't say that it's just up to this point.
02:02It's important to support the development of tourism workers in the tourism industry.
02:07The pilot of the program in Davao, Oriental and Surigao del Sur was conducted last year.
02:12Marites was only able to help after their location in Caraga was flooded.
02:16We were given time to look at tourism
02:21because that's one of the things that helped us,
02:24not only in catching fish,
02:26but it also helped tourism
02:31because we were able to earn income, like me, from the tour guide.
02:35In addition to this,
02:36tourism workers affected by the continuous eruption of the Canlaon volcano
02:40will be able to receive assistance under the program.
02:43Rodlo Gusad for Pambansang TV in Bagong, Philippines.
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