By Jocelyn P. Alvarez
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The second set of beneficiaries under the Special Program for the Employment of Students (SPES), a joint undertaking of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the local government unit (LGU) here, started work on May 8 for a 20-day summer job program.
A total of 1,271 student beneficiaries, mostly in their high school years attended the orientation held at the City Coliseum where Mayor Beng Climaco urged them to help build back a better Zamboanga.
Vic Larato of the City Information Office (CIO) said the briefing was aimed at acquainting the students of their duties and responsibilities under the program.
Larato said, for the whole duration of the summer job, “the students will help in the barangay cleanliness and beatification program, updating of barangay profile, census, clerical jobs in local government offices, janitorial activities, carpentry works and other non-hazardous activities.
Each student-beneficiary will be compensated/paid a total amount of P5,600 at the end of the program, Larato said.
He added that of the P5,600 pay, 60 percent or P3,360 will be subsidized by the city government, while DOLE will shoulder the remaining 40 percent or P2,240.
“For this year, the city government has allocated a total of P9.1M for the implementation of SPES in the city while DOLE allotted P5.5 million, which brings to a total of P14.6 million.
The second batch of SPES will end on June 5 while first batch started working April 10 – May 12.
SPES caters to a total of 2,589 high school and college student-beneficiaries in the city.
