CSF doles out assistance to market vendors
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO – Micro-entrepreneurs, including some public market vendors here, were beneficiaries of this city government’s economic assistance program.
Receiving P8,000 worth of subsidies for raw materials needed to sustain and improve their small businesses are some 45 public market vendors, through the Local Negosyo Serbisyo sa Barangay (NSB) program.
Melita F. Pineda, a vendor in the city’s old public market for 50 years, thanked the local government unit.
“Malaking tulong po ito para sa aming maliliit na negosyo lalo na po kaming market vendors na nagtitinda po ng mga gulay sa ating palengke. Salamat po kay Mayor EdSa [Edwin Santiago] at sa lahat po ng bumubuo ng programang ito,” Pineda said.
Meanwhile, 46 micro-entrepreneurs in different food manufacturing industries also benefited from the Livelihood Seeding Program funded by the LGU. This brings the total beneficiaries to more than 300 as of December 2021.
The activity was graced by Vice Mayor Jimmy T. Lazatin; Councilor Benedict Jasper Lagman, Chairperson on Committee on Market and Economic Enterprise; and Mila Rivera, City Market Operations Division Chief.
Aside from the NSB, the City Investment and Promotion Office, in partnership with the Department of Trade and Industry, is also featuring Fernandino products thru its “Fernanpreneur Christmas Trade Fair” at Robinsons Starmills that already started on December 16, 2021 and will end on January 02, 2022.
