{"id":121155,"date":"2017-10-04T01:28:49","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T05:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=121155"},"modified":"2017-10-04T01:28:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T05:28:49","slug":"tesda-provides-skills-training-for-marawi-evacuees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/04\/tesda-provides-skills-training-for-marawi-evacuees\/","title":{"rendered":"TESDA provides skills training for Marawi evacuees"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) is conducting a massive skills training program for displaced Filipinos affected by the ongoing rebellion in Marawi City. (Photo<\/a>: TESDA\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA\u00a0— The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) is conducting a massive skills training program for displaced Filipinos affected by the ongoing rebellion in Marawi City.<\/p>\n

During a press briefing in Malaca\u00f1an on Tuesday, October 3, TESDA Director General Guiling Mamondiong said the agency went to Iligan City, where many of the evacuees are currently residing.<\/p>\n

According to Mamondiong, TESDA is presently conducting a massive skills training program to the evacuees in Iligan City and Cagayan de Oro City.<\/p>\n

He said the agency has appropriated around PHP60 million for the skills training program in Cagayan de Oro City. The TESDA head said they are targeting to train around 20,000 construction workers for the reconstruction and rehabilitation program of the government in areas affected by the siege.<\/p>\n

In a bid to ensure that evacuees will be employed and will have livelihood after the training, TESDA is coordinating \u201cvery closely\u201d with Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), and Department of Agriculture (DA).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to provide jobs and means of livelihood to the evacuees once they already returned to Marawi City,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

For drug dependents, Mamondiong said TESDA has already trained about 20,000 in support of the drug rehabilitation program of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte. In addition, the agency is coordinating with the Department of Health (DOH) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) to submit a list of drug dependents who are ready for skills training.<\/p>\n

He said TESDA is also coordinating with the DTI and DSWD to make sure that after the training program, jobs will be available as well as livelihood for those who cannot find employment in the private sector.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are actually talking to the industry to accept these drug dependents\u2026 after their skills training,\u201d Mamondiong said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can do that but we cannot force the industry to accept them.\u00a0Kasi sila ang nakakaalam kung sino-sino \u2018yung dapat nilang tanggapin<\/em>. But we will be talking to them, we will encourage them to accept them if they have the skill and we are providing the skill that the industry would need,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

TESDA has also trained about 8,500 indigenous people from various tribes in the country, Mamondiong said. The agency has signed a memorandum of agreement with the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) for 15,000 scholarship grants for the indigenous people.<\/p>\n

It has also signed a memorandum of agreement with the Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) for the development of family enterprises in all regions of the country.<\/p>\n

The training, which targets 2,000 family enterprises for the first half of 2018, is for all the members of the family who are of age.\u201cSo this is another approach to poverty alleviation program among Filipino families,\u201d Mamondiong said.<\/p>\n

Also as part of its contribution to the poverty-alleviation program of the administration, the agency plans to visit slum areas in the country in November for the development of skills training for informal settlers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will be bringing TESDA and these government offices to these slum areas.\u00a0Kami na po ang pupunta doon. Aalamin (natin) kung ano ang maitutulong ng TESDA at saka mga opisinang ito,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Mamondiong said.\u00a0\u201cAalamin namin sa kanila. Ano ba ang mga\u00a0<\/em>skills\u00a0na pwede nating i-<\/em>develop\u00a0sa inyo? Pwedeng ibigay sa inyo? Ano ba ang trabahong pwedeng ibigay sa inyo? Ano ang mga<\/em>\u00a0livelihood program\u00a0pwedeng ibigay sa inyo na kaya ninyong gawin? \u2018Yun po ang<\/em>\u00a0contribution\u00a0ng TESDA rito<\/em>,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Mamondiong said TESDA is expected to receive PHP4.5 billion for the universal access to college education program where the agency will tap its 122 training centers in the country. \u201cSo in 2018, we are talking here of about 700 to 800 trainees or scholars.\u00a0Napakarami po ito. At ito po ay pinaghandaan ng<\/em>TESDA. We are renovating, we are making repairs of these training institutions so that by the time that we have this money in 2018, we are ready to implement them successfully,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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