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TESDA, Zambo solon launch employment training program

By Teofilo Garcia, Jr.

May 7, 2018, 6:24 pm

TESDA Regional Director Lorenzo Macapli (left) and Zamboanga City 2nd district Congressman Manuell Jose Dalipe discuss about livelihood projects during the launching on Monday of the Special Training for Employment Program (STEP) at the ZGI College of Tecnology, Inc. (Photo by: Teofilo P. Garcia) 

 

ZAMBOANGA CITY--The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) in partnership with the city's second congressional district office on Monday launched the "Special Training for Employment Program" (STEP).

Engr. Lorenzo Macapili, TESDA regional director, said the STEP involves two skills courses, namely, dressmaking and wellness (hilot), with 25 student-beneficiaries in each course.

Macapili said the beneficiaries of the program are from this city's second congressional district who are unemployed and “interested to learn since it is their field of interest.”

Macapili said that each of the beneficiary will receive a Php100 daily allowance and livelihood starter kits and upon completion of the training, which is a 30-day course.

Trainees will undergo national competency assessment to acquire NC-II certificates, which are required for employment.

Macapili said the program is funded by the office of the second congressional district Rep. Manuel Jose Dalipe.

Dalipe said his office has allocated Php7.3 million for the STEP and Training for Work Scholarship Program (TSWP) for this year.

Dalipe said the 50 student-beneficiaries of the STEP form part of the program's first batch of recipients.

The ZGI College of Technology, a TESDA accredited technical vocational institution, is the program's educational partner. (PNA)

 

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