SKILLS TRAINING. Fifty displaced Antiquenos and returning overseas Filipino workers undergo skills training at the Municipal Training Center in Belison town starting May 24, 2021. The skills training, under the Bayanihan 2, is for the OFWs and displaced workers planning to stay for good in the province to have a source of income. (Photo courtesy of TESDA Antique)
SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique – Some 50 returning overseas Filipinos (ROFs) and displaced workers in Antique are recipients of skills training from the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) funded under the Bayanihan to Recover as One Act (Bayanihan 2).
The training includes the Electrical Installation and Maintenance (EIM) for 25 days and Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) for 34 days at the Municipal Training Center of adjacent Belison town.
“I am honored and lucky to be one of the trainees,” Rowen Moscoso, president of the OFW Association in Patnongon town, said in an interview on Friday.
He said he is particularly undergoing training on EIM so that he could have his own business as he is contemplating staying for good in the province.
“I am planning to enter into a contract with some homeowners needing electrical wiring installation,” he said, adding he will need the skill as he is putting up a poultry project in their town.
“If I have the skill, I would be able to do the electrical wiring installation for the poultry myself,” he said.
Moscoso used to work at the Emirates Industrial Laboratory in the United Arab Emirates as an assistant network administrator.
“Our company was then engaged in oil exploration and metallurgy,” he said.
He came home in 2017 even before the health pandemic hit the country and three years after working abroad.
Although his wife works as a nurse in the province, he feels the need to raise money for their family as they have four children still in school.
In a virtual press conference on Thursday, TESDA Antique provincial director Glenn Murphy said they began the two training skill courses approved by their central office on May 24.
TESDA has allotted PHP2.9 million for the two courses which would benefit 223 OFWs and displaced workers from Antique. (PNA)
