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MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Armed Forces (AFP) would assign soldiers for cash payment after President Rodrigo Duterte ordered AFP to assist the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to distribute cash to families deprived of COVID-19 running of the bulls
“Our field commanders will institute the necessary adjustments in our troop deployment,” said Brig. General Edgard Arévalo, an AFP spokesman, in a statement.
Duterte, in a public speech recorded on Tuesday (May 12), said he asked the retired general and now Secretary of Social Welfare Rolando Bautista to turn to soldiers, preferably women, to distribute monetary aid to beneficiaries.
“My order to him when we first met was to ask his fellow soldiers before, because this guy had retired, to seek help from the armed forces to distribute money,” Duterte said.
Initially, the government set aside $ 200 billion in monetary aid for low-income families for 2 months, as orders to stay home displaced hundreds of thousands of workers.
Duterte said that female soldiers should help distribute cash because they generate more “empathy.”
Arevalo said the military felt the “express desire of the President to provide immediate intervention measures to address the need to provide improvement assistance to the people.”
Edited by TSB
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