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Senior Labor Employment Officer Lourdes Amores personally handed the equipment to Mayor Stephen Acosta in a simple ceremony held at the mayor’s office.
In her message, Amores said the equipment is part of the department’s Computerized National Manpower Registry of Skills (CNMRS), a repository of computerized information on available workers and their corresponding skills. “The CNMRS is one of the major sources of inputs to enhance the lifetime employability and competitiveness of Filipino workers,” Amores explained.
Amores said Sominot is very lucky because not all local government units (LGUs) can avail of the said equipment.
“There were only 15 LGUs in Zamboanga del Sur that manifested their support to the program and they were all given the equipment for free,” Amores announced.
Amores said the IT equipment issued to Sominot belonged to the fourth batch of equipment issued to the LGUs under the said program.
The first batch was given to Pagadian City followed by Dumingag and Molave towns for the second batch, then Bayog, Ramon Magsaysay, Margosatubig, and Tukuran towns for the third batch, and the fourth batch was given to the municipalities of Dinas, Dumalinao, Kumalarang, Sominot, Tambulig, Tigbao, Vencenzu Sagun, and Tabina.
Mayor Acosta said the equipment is a great help to the residents especially as this would help prospective employers scout workers with appropriate skills as registered in the database.
“With the equipment that we are having now, we are confident that unemployment problem will be properly addressed and the different skills of our unemployed youths can be easily tapped,” Acosta said.
Acosta expressed his thanks to the DOLE for continuously providing assistance to their municipality. In 2013 his town received free starter kits for the farmers from said office.
The IT equipment was also turned-over by Mayor Acosta to Public Service Employment Office (PESO) manager Maritess Bonggolan, witnessed by Vice Mayor Johnriel Melo and 18 barangay chairmen as witnesses.