Conglomerate San Miguel Corp. (SMC) said it has launched its community resellers program for the former residents of Barangay Taliptip in Bulakan, the future site of the company’s airport project.
The company is organizing former residents into groups or cooperatives to start their own community reselling business, carrying Magnolia Chicken and Purefoods-branded frozen products.
The company said it has provided technical skills to some of the residents and also additional community-based business skills training, which will allow them to enhance their income from the fishing trade.
The programs are the assistance provided by San Miguel to former residents of Taliptip, whom they need to relocate somewhere else to give way to the airport project.
“We are fully committed to helping our Taliptip families become more capable of building a better future for themselves, by providing them all the support and training they need to get good jobs—preferably at our projects–or to pursue various businesses opportunities,” SMC President and CEO Ramon S. Ang said. “This reselling program makes former settlers of the airport site our valued business partners. We will make sure our people will be there to watch over them, monitor their progress, and help them make their business succeed. As with our TESDA training programs, this is open to all former residents. They just have to organize themselves, and we will extend the same support.”
The first community store was opened by former residents from Taliptip’s Sitio Kinse, who moved to Barangay Bambang, also in Bulakan town. They opened the pilot store for the program last January 24.
The company provided the initial inventory of Magnolia chicken and Purefoods products for free, as well as freezers for the said community store.
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