The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Quezon, through its Negosyo Center Calauag, assisted the Calauag Association of Micro-Entrepreneurs (CAME) during the Department of Science and Technology—Quezon Provincial Office’s site visit of the CAME’s Production Facility last 24 January 2022, at the Calauag Pasalubong Center in Calauag, Quezon.

As a prospect beneficiary of DOST-Quezon Provincial Office Grants-in-Aid (GIA) projects in the province, the DTI Quezon Provincial Office-Negosyo Center Calauag Business Counselor Ma. Isabel C. Hirang assisted the CAME, a DOLE and SEC-registered association handled by the Municipal Social Welfare and Development Officer that is engaged in processing food and non-food products in Calauag. The said project will be a sustainable livelihood and will help develop an economic enterprise that will benefit the association and the municipality through science, technology, and innovation.

Present during the visit were Jan Kimwell G. Alpay, DOST’s Science Research Assistant, Rommel L. Abuyan, DOST’s PA-II & Project Focal Person, DTI Negosyo Center Calauag Business Counselor, Ma. Isabel C. Hirang, MSWD Officer, Jerwin T. Navarro, RSW, MCD, AA-V/RCCI, Ms. Virginia C. Paraiso, MSDWO personnel, and CAME key officers. ♦

Date of Release: 4 February 2022