Members of the Rizal Police Provincial Office (PPO) joined the local government unit in providing a livelihood training for members of the women sector in a community in Taytay, Rizal on Labor Day.

Residents of Sitio Tibagan, Taytay, who are mostly women, attended the skills training on how to make bags and rags, organized by the PPO and the local government unit of Taytay, Rizal on May 1, as part of the Labor Day projects of Rizal police.

Col. Felipe Maraggun, PPO director; Maj. Florante Yu, head of the PPO’s Provincial Community Affairs and Development Unit; and Taytay Police Station chief Lt. Col. Gaylor Pagala assisted the local government unit’s Local Poverty Reduction Action Office headed by Atty. Gracia Blanque in the training seminar that aims to empower the women sector in the community with livelihood skills.

Attendees were taught how to make fashionable novelty bags out of scrap clothes and other materials which were directly sourced from clothing manufacturers in Taytay.

The PPO official later distributed food packs to the children of the seminar attendees.

Maraggun said the office of Taytay Mayor Allan de Leon has been supporting the activities of the PPO, particularly on community relations, which, according to the police, have positive effects on their anti-criminality efforts.

Rizal PPO director Felipe Maraggun (left) inspects the cloth pieces during the livelihood seminar in Taytay, Rizal (Photo from Rizal PPO's Facebook page)

Meanwhile, the PPO said uniformed police personnel had been deployed in strategic areas to ensure that no untoward incidents would happen during the Labor Day activities.