DISTRIBUTION. San Remigio Municipal Mayor Margarito Mission Jr. (right) leads the distribution of the Livelihood Seeding Program-Negosyo Serbisyo sa Barangay 2021 beneficiaries in his hometown on Jan. 17, 2022. Department of Trade and Industry Antique provincial information officer Lynna Joy Cardinal said on Thursday that this year's batch of 235 micro, small and medium entrepreneurs will be given livelihood kits through the same program.(Photo courtesy of San Remigio LGU) SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique - Livelihood kits worth PHP3.8 million will be provided by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to 235 qualified micro, small and medium entrepreneurs (MSMEs) belonging to the 4th to 5th class municipalities in Antique. DTI Antique provincial information officer Engineer Lynna Joy Cardinal, in an interview Thursday, said they are now in the process of profiling the beneficiaries for their Livelihood Seeding Program-Negosyo Serbisyo sa Barangay (LSP-NSB) who could each receive PHP15,000 worth of livelihood kit. "With the help of the Barangay Development Council, we are in the process of profiling the MSMEs who had been affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) and those who are really in need of the livelihood kits," she said. Cardinal said the beneficiaries will come from the 57 barangays of the municipalities of Anini-y, Barbaza, Laua-an, Libertad, Pandan, Tibiao, Tobias Fornier, and Valderrama. The livelihood kits have increased from PHP6,000 last year to PHP15,000 this 2022. "The qualified beneficiaries will also be the ones who will identify the livelihood kits that will be given them," she said.\ The types of available livelihood kits will only be known after the profiling though most of the beneficiaries chose the sari-sari store package last year. The DTI also distributed livelihood kits to 706 beneficiaries from 82 barangays in the fourth- to fifth-class municipalities in Antique in 2021. The DTI targets to distribute the livelihood kits starting June to August this year since they still need to be procured. Before the distribution of kits, the recipients will be oriented on basic entrepreneurship, financial literacy, consumer rights and responsibilities, and DTI programs and services. (PNA) }