What skills trainings fit Antique villagers?

Panay News
REGION August 29, 2016

SAN JOSE, Antique – A government agency is determining the skills trainings appropriate for various sectors in the villages.

Barangay captains were asked to submit a list of residents categorized as displaced workers, persons with disabilities, overseas Filipino workers, indigenous peoples, rebel returnees, drug dependents, and out-of-school youths.

This “Barangay Skills Mapping” is in line with the Barangay Kasanayan para sa Kabuhayan at Kapayapaan program of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), said a senior specialist at the agency, Karen May Duay.

The program supports the Duterte administration’s poverty-alleviation initiatives and barangay empowerment advocacy, said TESDA director general Guiling Mamondiong.

It helps villagers in availing themselves of trainings — conducted in TESDA-accredited institutions — that will provide them skills to become entrepreneurs or look for local and overseas jobs.

Antique has six TESDA-accredited schools: Advance Central College, Goodhands Training Center, Semirara Training Center, St. Anthony’s College, Wright Technological College of Antique, and the Provincial TESDA Training Center.

The following courses are offered in these schools: health care services, cookery, visual graphic, bread and pastry, caregiving, food and beverage services, beauty care services, massage therapy, hilot wellness, agricultural crop production;

Bookkeeping, shielded metal arc welding, motorcycle and small engine services, machining, industrial electricity, and trainers’ methodology (Level 1). (PIA/PN)