The expansion of the Local Adaptation to Water Access (LAWA) and Breaking Insufficiency through Nutritious Harvest for the Impoverished (BINHI) Project has started in Antique province.

Mylene Binondo, chief of the preparedness for response section of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Western Visayas Region (DSWD-6), said in an interview Friday there is an ongoing Cash for Training for the 301 beneficiaries in the province’s Barbaza town.

“The five-day Cash for Training forms part of the 20-day duration of the ‘LAWA at BINHI’ project implementation,” she said.

Binondo said the first three-day Cash for Training program in Barbaza began on May 22 to educate farmers, fisherfolk, and other indigent families about the project’s significance and teach them how to identify and cultivate vegetables suitable for the area.

The remaining two-day training to be conducted at the end of the 20-day project duration is intended for the beneficiaries to learn how to sustain the project.

In addition to the town of Barbaza, the two other pilot service areas, Sibalom and Sebaste, will have additional service areas for the “LAWA at BINHI” project.

The three municipalities where the project will be implemented for the first time are San Remigio, with 734 beneficiaries, Valderrama (328), and Tibiao (178).

Binondo said target areas are being identified based on their vulnerability to climate change and the most number of low-income families.

“The beneficiaries will be receiving a daily wage of PHP450 per day for 20 days for making water impoundment and planting of vegetables such as okra, eggplant, and fruit-bearing trees at the service areas in the six municipalities,” she said. (PNA)