GENERAL SANTOS CITY/LAMBAYONG, SULTAN KUDARAT — September 3, 2026 — Forty-six (46) selected 
MNLF/MILF former combatants and their families received livelihood assistance through two separate payout activities conducted in General Santos City and Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat simultaneously on same date.
The two beneficiary organizations with “Bangsamoro Trade Center (Mini Grocery) Project” located at Purok Linglingay, Poblacion, Lambayong Sultan Kudarat and “Livelihood & Goat Farming Project” located at Barangay Batomelong, General Santos City with the Dalam Clan Society Inc and the General Santos Council of Imams Inc respectively as Legal Holders of the MNLF-MILF Community projects.
The two community projects are being funded from the Transitional Development Impact Fund (TDIF) under the Bangsamoro Sagip Kabuhayan Program (BSKP) through Hon. Minister Atty Raissa H. Jajurie of the Ministry Social Services and Development (MSSD-BARMM).
While, required by MSSD that the release of the proceeds of the livelihood project is through twenty individual members, there was an agreement signed by the organization members that the assistance is not for their individual benefits but rather it is a collective funds for the community project for the benefits of all organization members and the community as a whole.
The Two Community Projects are part of the twenty-two (22) initiated by the Consortium of Bangsamoro Civil Society (CBCS) with support from MISEREOR – a German Base International Non-Government Organization (INGO) that envisions to uplift the living conditions of former MNLF/MILF Communities through economic resiliency programs in Ten Cluster Areas in Mindanao.
By: Ustadz Ebrahim D. Sandigan, CBCS TAP-G Area Coordinator for Sugoda Buayan Cluster
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