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THE Department of Labor and Employment will intensify its monitoring and profiling of nearly 4,000 child laborers in the region by the end of the year as part of its campaign to decrease child labor in the Central Visayas.In its latest monitoring and profiling, DOLE 7 has interviewed around 3,078 or 78 percent of the 3,959 child laborers in the Central Visayas from May to August this year.
“DOLE has started extending assistance to these children and to their parents or guardians in order to ensure that they will be removed from child labor,” Estillore said.Around 290 of the identified parents and/or guardians of child laborers in the province received livelihood assistance totaling P8.3 million last June 12 during the World Day Against Child Labor celebration in Barili town, southwest Cebu, after completing their project proposals, according to Estillore.
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