C4TP opens opportunities for Samar lads CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, June 27 (PIA)—TESDA’s Cash for Training Program (C4TP) has opened livelihood opportunities for some 700 + Samarnon youth whose poor families could not send them to higher education. Three of these lads shared their stories. Mario Nablo is 22 from Hinabangan, Samar, he enrolled in Electrical Installation to hone further the little experience he got assisting a distant relative in electrical wirings. “Pag magka trabaho ako, ma eskoyla ako hin education major in Physics,” (If I am hired, I will pursue education in college and I will major in Physics.) the lad said full of confidence. His father is a farmer and being the eldest in a brood of five he himself has self-assigned responsibilities. “Two of my younger brothers are now in college, I know sooner I will level up with them,” Nablo shared. His two other companions, Jackson Mabonga, 22 and Mario Bacaycay, 21 were not as keen though in pursuing higher studies like Nablo. The skills training in electrical wiring for them is enough to give them jobs that could help their poor families. “TESDA has given us opportunities that we shall value,” said Bacaycay. Another lad, Jackson Mabonga lost his father at a young age, although poor,his mother sent him to high school. This lad wants to be a soldier but would like to acquire some skills to be at par with college graduates who will pursue soldiery. The three lads are enrolled in a TESDA Service Provider some 60 kilometers away, in Basey town. They had to rent a boarding house there. Their allowances of Php 7,100 each were allotted to pay for the boarding house, As Basey is a coastal town, the C4TP lads would often go fishing for their viand. They would also pool the little resources they have to get by. Come first week of July, these young people will be submitting to TESDA skills competency assessment to obtain an National Competency (NC) 11 certificate. “Ini nga NC 11 certificate an ginkikinahanglan kun manmimiling ka trabaho,(The NC 11 certificate is what companies look for when hiring)” said Bacaycay. “Nagpapasalamat kami han gobyerno hini nga tambulig basi naman dire kami magpabilin nga pobres, (We thank the government for giving us opportunities to advance so we will not remain poor all our lives)” said Mabonga. There are still some stories of poor Samarnons whose lives may light up because of the skills training opportunities, said Rolando Juanillo, TESDA –Samar Provincial Director. “Our families are very poor and our priority is food, so that trainings like the ones TESDA afforded us seems to be the least concern of our parents,” one of the three lads said. C4TP is a skills training opportunity offered to children of poor people in the towns of Samar. TESDA earlier reported that some 700+ have qualified and are now into the skills training of their choice. (PIA 8-Samar)
Posted on: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 05:11:49 +0000
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