houses; while the others located in more accessible places are either renting or staying with relatives.  On the occupation and condition during ECQ, majority are blind massage therapist whose work are stopped due to the implementation of the ECQ and extended until the GCQ and is expected to be the last livelihood activities to resume due to the social distancing protocol. The rest of the PWDs are still in the informal economy doing day-to-day living to include cell phone repair, part time baby sitter, part time sign language interpreter, newspaper vendor, garbage collector, and others do the unpaid task of a house keeper.  On government assistance received during ECQ. All the persons with disabilities said that they have received relief goods either from the barangay, DSWD, Persons with Disability Affairs Office (PDAO), from Councillor Arthur Allad-iw, CHR-CAR and some thru representations made by Mr. John Paredes. Private institutions and the church were also mentioned as donors in the relief operation.  On the Social Amelioration Program of the government. there are nine PWD households interviewed who were not granted with the SAP due to varied reasons, as indicated below:  34 P a g e ▪ Disqualified for SAP due to SINGLE civil status; ▪ Application is pending during the time of visit. One PWD complained of missing application form. On the second follow-up she was again made to sign another form, third follow-up, she was told to just wait; and as of May 8, 2020, the client sent a message to the CHR-CAR hotline that she went again to the barangay hall for follow-up but received negative remarks; ▪ Denied because her daughter is hired by DSWD as contract service for two months during the ECQ period; ▪ Doesn’t know where the barangay hall is to ask for help. Announcements from the barangay regarding ECQ guidelines are not well understood (response from a deaf client); ▪ Did not qualify because the family is already 4Ps beneficiary; ▪ Did not qualify because she is receiving pension (accordingly, the amount of monthly pension is P2,800.00); Coping mechanisms. The PWDs were also asked how are they coping during the ECQ despite the loss of job; and the monitoring team received the following responses: ▪ Doing house hold chores without income; ▪ Pagkasyahin yung meron (live with what you have); ▪ Rendering on-call/home service massage service; CHR CAR REGIONAL HR SITUATION REPORT – JANUARY to JUNE 2020

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