By Bernadine Astillero Gabawan
BAYOG, Zamboanga del Sur – The Department
of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in partnership with Technical
Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) in coordination with the
local government unit of Bayog conducted a “Cash for Training” on Organic
Agriculture Production (OAP) and Driving and Auto Servicing (D & AC) here on
Tuesday at the Glupa Gulian Agro-Tourism Park in Barangay Kahayagan.
The program aimed to empower the disadvantaged youths
through skills training and assistance for a gainful employment by venturing them into entrepreneurial
activities.
The training package
includes training cost, tool kits and transportation allowance amounting
to of P20,000 per scholar.
Fifty three out-of-school youths and unemployed college
graduates successfully completed the training - 28 on organic agriculture
production and 25 on driving and auto servicing.
In his message, Mayor Leonardo L. Babasa Jr. expressed
his appreciation on the program for “it gives the youths an opportunity to
start their own livelihood.”
“With this, it will induce economic activity in the
municipality,” Babasa added.
Moreover, Mayor Babasa gave assurance to the
participants that they would be given an area at the Glupa Gulian for their
gardening, hoping that “this batch will help in the production of rubber
seedlings in the municipality.”
Also present during the occasion were SB member Celso
Matias, TESDA Provincial Director Eulalio Lumactod, MSWDO Conchita Sucaldito,
ZOOM Technical and Agriculture Training Center President Nelly Yting, ZOOM
school registrar Ma. Dinah Marasigan, LGU department heads and key officials
and ZOOM instructors Ruel Maraniag, Alejandro Gesta, Romson Jarantilla and
Ridesh Jarantilla. (PIA9)
