Cayetano starts ‘Listening Tour’ in Cebu

CEBU, Philippines - Senate minority leader Alan Peter Cayetano began his Listening Tour in Cebu with some furniture workers in Tayud, Liloan yesterday.

Cayetano’s informal talk with the furniture workers of Woven Furniture is aimed at soliciting their daily economic problems so the government can be of help in improving their situation.

Cayetano’s Listening Tour is part of his PiTik-Presyo, Trabaho, Kita platform that proposes to lower prices, create more jobs and increase wages.

The tour is aimed at learning the true concerns and needs of the country’s different sectors.

“The campaign is not about me, it is about the people we are fighting for,” said Cayetano.

He is still set to conduct consultation campaigns with other sectors in the manufacturing industry and in rural markets.

Meanwhile, Cayetano turnover a P100,000 worth of medical assistance to the Aviation Security Department of the Mactan Cebu International Airport.

It is available only at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center, where the senator has already given a total of P7 million since 2011.

Cayetano said that another P1.5 million will be given to Eversley Sanitarium Hospital in Mandaue City within the year.

Majority of the jail facilities in Cebu also received P100,000 each worth of medical assistance when he launched his BILIB I.T. in Cebu last week.

BILIB I.T. is an information technology program designed to give detainees the necessary skills to rejoin the country’s workforce once their sentence ends. —  (FREEMAN)