Minister Romeo K. Sema of the Ministry of Labor and Employment – Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. (Photo by MOLE-BARMM)
COTABATO CITY – Workers of the Ministry of Labor and Employment in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (MOLE-BARMM) on Tuesday pledged to donate part of their April salaries for anti-coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) relief missions.
BARMM Labor Minister Romeo Sema told reporters that he and other labor officials and employees reached a consensus to share part of their compensation to the ministry’s humanitarian mission to cushion the impact of the enhanced community quarantine on the Bangsamoro people.
“This is voluntary on our part. I hope other ministries will follow suit,” Sema said.
At the same time, he aired his appeal to big business establishments in the region to support the ministry’s outreach missions.
“Unity is the name of the game. Let us unite and share to defeat our common and unseen enemy,” Sema said.
He assured that while MOLE-BARMM is helping contain the spread of the virus in the region, it is not forgetting its social corporate responsibility to the Bangsamoro.
BARMM is composed of the provinces of Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi; the cities of Cotabato, Marawi, Lamitan; and the 63 villages in six towns of North Cotabato that opted to join the fledging region. (PNA)
