Out-Of-School-Youths To Clean Up Coastline In Philippines
Komfie Manalo - All Headline News Foreign Correspondent Navotas City, Philippines (AHN) - The Philippine government has tapped the services of over 100 out-of-school-youths to clean up and patrol coastlines and riverbank in Navotas City, Philippines north of the capital Manila, in an effort to declog waterways and prevent flooding. Chief Supt. Leopoldo Bataoil, district director of the Philippine National Police - Northern Police District Command, and proponent of the project Out of School Youth Towards Economic Recovery or Oyster, said the program will provide temporary jobs to these OSYs and at the same time help prevent flooding in the coastline city of Navotas. "With the launching Tuesday of project Oyster, we are not only providing these out-of-school youths with temporary jobs, but we are also doing a great service to these coastline city," he said. The OSYs tapped for Oysters will be hired by the government between four to six months and earn an average of $4.60 per day. Project Oyster is a collaboration among the PNP, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, Department of Public Works and Highways, and the local government unit of the City of Navotas. At the same time, Bataoil said giving a significant number of OSYs jobs, even temporarily, is translated to less teenagers hooked on drugs. He told AHN, "One of the primary causes of drug addiction is doing nothing. These less fortunate OSYs have nothing |
