Manila, March 25 -- The Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity (OPAPRU) and the Basilan provincial government, together with other stakeholders, have so far provided livelihood assistance to 300 Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) members as of last February.

"Since February 26 this year, the Provincial Local Government Unit of Basilan and the OPAPRU, through its Localizing Normalization Implementation (LNI) and in coordination with Task Force on Decommissioned Combatants and their Communities, have already provided livelihood assistance to 300 MILF members, of which 288 are decommissioned combatants," the peace body said in a statement Wednesday.

Aside from providing a major boost to small livelihood ven...