City prepares for ‘Abot Alam’ program
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS
DAGUPAN City has started gathering data on the number of out of school youth (OSY) in every barangay in preparation for the implementation of the ‘Abot Alam Program’, an inter-agency literacy program of the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC).
Mayor Belen T. Fernandez met with the barangay officials and volunteers last July 2 to discuss plans in order to achieve a zero OSY in their respective barangays by 2016.
Fernandez issued earlier Executive Order No. 17, Series of 2014 on March 21 creating the Local Literacy Coordinating Council of Dagupan City to ensure that every Dagupeño is provided access to basic education and to achieve the national government’s vision to eradicate illiteracy in the country and in the local levels.
The council will act as the advisory and coordinating body of the city for the implementation of the ‘Abot Alam Program’.
It will be headed by the mayor as chairman, and Schools Division Superintendent Dr. Gloria Torres, Principal Lemual Astadan of Mother Goose Special Science High School, DepEd Education Program Supervisors Maria Soccoro Dimalanta, Diosdado Cayabyab, and Liberty Roxas as members.
The program, for out of school youths, aged 15 – 30 years old, provides three choices:
They can continue their education under the DepEd’s Alternative Learning System (ALS) program; if they already have skills that they have acquired in a technical school but remained unemployed, the Department of Labor will help find jobs for them; If they want to start a business of their own, the Department of Trade and Industry will train them how to do it.
Mayor Fernandez’s Project B.E.L.E.N (Better Education for Livelihood and Employment Needs) provides opportunities for the poorest of the poor to earn more income for their sustenance and survival under. (CIO/Joseph C. Bacani)
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