Despite the country’s recent economic growth there are about 1,027,183 individuals aged 15 years old and above categorized as poor individuals in Central Visayas identified by the DSWD’s National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction or NHTS-PR household assessment. Forty-three percent or 441,291 of these are without any occupation. Meanwhile, 25.3% of these poor individuals continue reading : DSWD-7 Shows 43% of Poor Individuals are Unemployed