The Department of Trade and Industry Quezon, through Negosyo Center Calauag, in cooperation with LGU – Calauag and in partnership with the Barangay Local Government Unit headed by Barangay Captain Ma. Cecelia S. Ledda launched the Livelihood Seeding Program – Negosyo Serbisyo sa Barangay (LSP-NSB) last 24 February 2022, in Brgy. Pinagtalleran, Calauag, Quezon. This program provides development assistance by bringing government services closer to the people.
The LSP-NSB is a program of the DTI that allows a wider reach of business development assistance by bringing government services closer to the people through partnerships with local government units (LGUs). Through the Barangay Development Councils (BDCs), the DTI will help capacitate barangay personnel to provide basic business advisory or information dissemination services to MSMEs in the locality.
The LSP-NSB in Brgy. Pinagtalleran was attended by five registered MSMEs and 95 potential MSMEs. During the program, the DTI Negosyo Center Calauag Business Counselor, Ma. Isabel C. Hirang, deliberated about the objectives of the LSP-NSB program, DTI and Negosyo Center Programs and Services, How to Start a Business, How to Choose a Business. NC-BC Hirang also discussed the nutshell of consumer rights and responsibilities to educate and empower the participants. Afterward, NC BC Hirang explained the Financing Facilitation: Bayanihan CARES of Small Business Corporation, a loan program for MSMEs, cooperatives, hospitals, tourism, and OFWs affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and other socio-economic reversals. She also asked some of the participants to share how their businesses thrived and adapted during the pandemic. She also encouraged the locals, along with their existing micro-entrepreneurs, who were highly devastated since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the business sector, to continue to seek other ways to sustain and improve their business by seeking assistance from DTI’s programs and services.
Barangay Chairman Ledda graced the event and encouraged the participants to comply with all the business regulations implemented. She expressed her full support for the DTI – Negosyo Center’s consent to the microentrepreneurs to boost economic activities in their barangay. ♦
Date of Release: 4 March 2022