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From left is Mayor Jun Pacalioga posing with
TESDA
acting Regional Director Lorenzo Makapili.
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By Julius Breva
DUMINGAG, Zamboanga
del Sur - The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA)
honors the Dumingag LGU with the Kabalikat National Award for training tens of
thousands of people in organic agriculture and in technical education.
The award is annually
given by TESDA to companies, institutions, and local governments that help it
achieve its goal of training the manpower resources of the country and of
making them world class.
In receiving the award
at the TESDA Women’s Center in Taguig, Manila last August 22, Mayor Pacalioga
was accompanied by his wife Girlyn and the Municipal Economic and Development
Officer of Dumingag Neil Estillore.
In an interview about
the award, Mayor Jun Pacalioga said that he would take the award as an instrument
to inspire and motivate more people to participate in the training programs of
the Dumingag LGU and become productive members and even world-class work force
of society.
TESDA Regional
Director Lorenzo Makapili said he was very happy about Dumingag because for the
first time an entry for the Kabalikat Award from TESDA-9 has won the top honors
since the start of the Award in the late 1990’s.
Pacalioga lauded TESDA
for recently formulating regulations to organic agriculture trainings that made
the several organic agriculture trainings of Dumingag eligible in the criteria
of the Kabalikat Award.
Pacalioga said
he assigned Estillore to oversee and supervise the agricultural and technical
training programs of Dumingag LGU that would bring productivity and progress to
the people of Dumingag.
In the ceremony, the
Dumingag LGU was cited for investing a lot in putting up a school in
agriculture and health called Dumingag Institute for Sustainable Organic
Agriculture (DISOA), and another school that offers courses in industrial and
service sectors called Dumingag Technological Training School (DTTS).
To make up for the
lack of funds in creating these schools, the LGU converted a
dilapidated-building-turned stable into an agricultural training school and
unutilized spaces under a bleacher into a technical skills training school.
To run the schools, the
Dumingag LGU assigned a management team and hired instructors for each school. To
date, the DISOA provides intensive sustainable organic agriculture training
towards healthy food sufficiency, while DTTS continue to help the youth acquire
low-cost but quality tech-voc education in the fields of welding, automotive,
electrical installation and management, computer servicing, and consumer
electronics.
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