ZAMBOANGA
CITY, March 22 (PNA) - The city government has allocated PhP9.8 million as its
counterpart in this year’s implementation of the Special Program for the
Employment of Students (SPES).
SPES
is a joint undertaking of local government units (LGUs) and the Department of
Labor and Employment (DOLE) aimed to help poor but deserving students pursue
their education by providing income or augment their income by employing them
during summer or Christmas vacations.
The
LGUs shoulders 60 percent of the beneficiaries’ salary while DOLE pays the
remaining 40 percent.
Mayor
Maria Isabelle Climaco-Salazar on Wednesday said the local government will hire
around 2,766 high school and college students for the 2017 SPES this summer.
Salazar
said they will be employed into two batches. The first batch will comprise of
1,400 beneficiaries who will work from April 11 to May 11.
The
second batch consisting of 1,366 beneficiaries will work for the remaining
summer period from May 9 to May 31.
They
will be employed in different programs to include clean and green projects,
beautification, surveys, barangay data updating, janitorial activities, and
office clerical works.
Salazar
said the daily wage rate of SPES beneficiaries has been set at P296 each.
The
objective of the SPES is to develop the intellectual capacities of children
from poor families and harness their potentials for the country's well being.
The
implementation of SPES is pursuant to Republic Act 7323, which was amended
through R.A. 9547. (PNA)
