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Bangsamoro Social Services Minister Jajurie presents MSSD’s programs, services for the Bangsamoro
COTABATO CITY — Deputy Majority Floor Leader and Minister of the
Ministry of Social Services and Development (MSSD) Atty. Raissa H.
Jajurie presented her agency’s programs, projects and services
implemented for various beneficiaries in the Bangsamoro Region during
the 26th episode of Kaunlaran sa Bangsamoro of the Bangsamoro Multimedia
Network (BMN) Inc. last Saturday (November 27).
Jajurie said providing the beneficiaries with package
services under social welfare or social services is the mandate of the
MSSD which is one of the 15 ministries established during the transition
under the Bangsamoro Transition Authority.
“We
have to give integrated social welfare to our constituents, address the
socially disabling or dehumanizing conditions that they’re facing,
protect, care, and rehabilitate the vulnerable sector, as well as
promote policies for the betterment of the people,” she elaborated.
According
to Jajurie, poverty in the region is quite high and there are a lot of
vulnerabilities. “We are disaster prone, armed conflict, and therefore
we need to help them with those vulnerabilities,” she underscored.
Jajurie
conveyed that even though the autonomous government is now existing
there are still nationally funded programs by DSWD that are being
implemented and coordinated with MSSD in the region such as 4Ps, social
pension, supplementary feeding, sustainable livelihood program, and as
well as program pertaining to trafficking.
The
social services minister further disclosed MSSD’s various flagship
programs called KUPKOP Program for the Child and Youth Welfare of which
there is a P5,000 monthly stipend and case management for the orphans
less than eighteen (18) years old, KALINGA Program which is for the
Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) with five hundred pesos of monetary
assistance, and ABAKA, an educational assistance program to help
elementary to college students in their expenses with an allotment of
ten thousand pesos per year per beneficiary.
Jajurie
added that MSSD has recently launched another flagship program dubbed
as Bangsamoro Sagip Kabuhayan (BSK) wherein the agency is giving a ‘seed
money’ or start-up capital to bring back their economic activity.
“Lastly,
there’s Unlad Pamilyang Bangsamoro which is a combination of the
different aspects of the mentioned programs which targets twenty-three
thousand poor families in the BARMM,” Minister Jajurie said.
Minister
Jajurie also clarified the difference between her Ministry to Chief
Ministers’ Project TABANG and the BARMM READi which are administered by
Atty. Naguib G. Sinarimbo of the Ministry of the Interior and Local
Government (MILG). She explained that the said projects were mandated to
do an immediate assistance.
“However the MSSD
does the same thing, the ministry stays in the location even after the
assistance until everything goes back to normal,” she elaborated
She
said that MSSD’s main clients are the poor and the vulnerable sector of
the autonomous region who are in dire need of help from the government
in terms of social welfare.
“For example,
children, women, elderly, disabled, and other sectors, and since the
pandemic, new ones like Locally Stranded Individuals (LSIs) and
Returning Overseas Filipino,” Jajurie said.
MILF Website
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http://www.opapp.gov.ph/resources/house-bill-no-4994
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