TESDA focuses on skills training of displaced workers, OFWs
THE training of displaced workers in this time of pandemic, numbering around 400,000, including returning Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), are the target priorities of the Technical Education Skills and Development Authority (TESDA).
This was bared by TESDA Deputy Director General Anecito “John” Bertiz III in a talk to newsmen during the opening of the Skills Solution Training and Assessment Development Center, in Lucao, Dagupan City, a stone’s throw from the Lucao Barangay Hall and the CSI the City Mall.
He said his office recently launched TESDA ‘Abot ang Lahat’ to empower the displaced workers, OFWs who were repatriated from different countries, including Locally Stranded Individuals (LSIs) who took advantage of the government’s Balik Probinsya, Bagong Pag-asa, a brainchild of Senator Christopher Lawrence Go.
Under the ‘Abot ang Lahat,’ the OFWs were organized and empowered so they can use their new skills when they return to their work overseas through, he admitted that may not happen soon since some countries in the Middle East are still closed because of the pandemic.
But Bertiz added that there are some countries already opened, citing Japan and United Kingdom where their ambassadors recently held meetings with TESDA officials led by Director General Isidro Lapena,
Meanwhile, Bertiz hailed the Skills Solution Training and Assessment Development Center, TESDA’s latest partner in providing skills training to the youth in Dagupan and other towns to enable them to find stable employment locally and abroad.
The center, the third branch of the company in the country after those in General Santos City and Cagayan de Oro City, initially gives courses in driving and welding. To date, it has about 15 to 20 students in its fold.
The students, all TESDA scholars, enjoy a little stipend during their skills training.
The opening of the center was graced by Vice Mayor Brian Kua and Lucao Barangay Captain and Loga ng mga Barangay President Lino Fernandez, (Leonardo Micua)
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