Informal sector workers in the Visayas will soon benefit from the “full-cycle” assistance of the Department of Labor and Employment that may enable them to work in the tourism sector.
“The Department is set to expand the project’s implementation with the addition of more Intramuros ‘padyak drivers’ as beneficiaries and its replication in other tourism areas,” Laguesma said in a news statement issued on Thursday. Last October, the program was piloted in Intramuros, Manila, where it benefited 120 pedicab drivers, who were trained to act as tour guides in the Walled City.