Training seminars for 4Ps families set

By October 4, 2015Business, News

BAYAMBANG—Some 7, 448 members of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) here are set to undergo sustainable livelihood training program to be conducted by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Kasama Kita sa Barangay Foundation (KKSBF) this October.

Levin Uy, municipal councilor and executive director of KKSBF said the training is part of the entrepreneurship program called “Puhunan ko, Palaguin ko.”

KKSBF is a non-government organization in the town that provides skills training in cooperation with Technology Skills Development Authority (TESDA), DTI and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).

“We will teach them how to start their own businesses”, said Uy.

He said the one-day training will be followed by skills technology transfer training and the microfinance capitalization.

“In the microfinance capitalization, KKSBF will lend capital for the upcoming businesses of those who will finish all the trainings”, said Uy.

Since 2014, there are already 2,701 who earned National Certificates II in computer hardware servicing, housekeeping, reflexology, cosmetology, entrepreneurship, beauty care and Moringa production.

KKSBF also provides micro financing for backyard enterprising in the town.

“Our town has the highest poverty incidence that is why we thought of providing alternative livelihood and additional income to our town mates”, said Uy.

Dr. Cesar Quiambao, president of KKSBF, said he is set to sign a memorandum of agreement with the Pangasinan State University Bayambang to open a course on meat processing and food preparation.

“We want to help more people and alleviate poverty especially among the poor or those who belong to the 4Ps,” Quiambao said.  “We do not just give them fish, we wanted to teach them how to fish”, he added. (Hilda Austria)

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