Tags: Labor and Employment
By Nikka Garriga
TAGUIG CITY, METRO MANILA–Some 2,000 teenagers from four of the country’s poorest provinces were chosen to undergo free technical-vocational training.
This is part of a joint program by the Technical Education Skills Development Authority (TESDA) and the International Labor Organization (ILO).
Dubbed the “Alternatives to Migration: Decent Jobs for Filipino Youth” program, scholars from Masbate, Antique, Agusan del Sur, and Maguindanao will also receive monthly allowances and will be presented opportunities for employment or to start a business of their own upon graduation.
The first batch of students began with the training last September. Some 250 of them are from Maguindanao, Antique and Agusan each and 190 from Masbate. The second batch is set to start this month.
Among the courses picked by the scholars include computer hardware, driving, shielded metal arc welding, dressmaking, commercial cooking, food and beverages servicing, plumbing, masonry and motorcycle servicing.
“Jobs and the urgent need to provide them are high in the priority list in the government’s development agenda in the Philippines as it is the same case in other countries where youth employment scenarios are near-crisis level,” said TESDA Director General Joel Villanueva.
The scholarships are funded through a P20-million grant from the ILO as part of the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals Achievement Fund (MDG-F) Joint Programme on Youth, Employment and Migration (YEM).
The government, for its part, will allocate P8.3 million to cover the cost of the scholarship.
TESDA is also eyeing the expansion of the program to more impoverished areas in the country boost job opportunities for them through technical-vocational training.
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