GENERAL SANTOS CITY (5 September 2014) – In coordination with City Mayor Ronnel Rivera, the Presyo, Trabaho/Kita, Kaayusan (PTK) Program of Senator Allan Peter Cayetano benefited two transport groups in the city.
On his visit Tuesday (September 2), Senator Cayetano gathered all Tricycle Operators and Drivers Association (TODA) presidents and briefed them regarding the PTK as a livelihood assistance program specifically designed for people like them.
The senator said the PTK program of his office is an initiative to create another source of income for these tricycle drivers and operators, aside from plying the city streets.
“In PTK,” the senator said, “all authorized and legal transport groups will be given a chance to start a cooperative livelihood, which will generate a sustainable profit, if managed properly.”
He said that these TODA groups can enter in any business they want. But for starters, he advised them to have a lending-type of business.
Senator Cayetano further explained that the PTK program is a thrust to eliminate 5/6 lending system, which deprives a needy Filipino family’s chance for economic growth.
He divulged that the PTK source of funds is not from the government, but from various businessmen who “believe in the Filipino capacity to improve himself.”
The two transport groups, Buayan TODA and Gaisano TODA, were the first two legal transport groups here in the city granted with the livelihood assistance from Senator Cayetano.
Each of these groups received P50,000 as a starting capital.
Baran Restitio, president of Gaisano TODA, conveyed the joy in behalf of his TODA for receiving the said amount.
“We are so happy that we became recipients of this PTK program of Senator Cayetano. We also thank Mayor Ronnel C. Rivera for his effort in bringing this program closer to us. If it had not been for him, this opportunity wouldn't have happened,” Restitio said in vernacular. (Gensan CPIO/ Ian John M. Lagare)
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