ZAMBOANGA CITY, June 10 (PNA) -– Some 240
youth have completed a six-month skills training under the Cash for Training
Project (C4TP) of the Technical Education Skills Development Authority and
Dept. of Social Welfare and Development in this southern port city.
The C4TP is a project of TESDA and DSWD
that gave free training, free competency assessment, allowance to all the
beneficiaries in the amount of P20,000, Wee said.
TESDA regional information officer Joy Wee
said the six-month training, which was held from December 2011 to May this
year, was designed to improve the plight of the youth-beneficiaries.
Wee said the training is also aimed at
empowering the youth through skills training and assistance towards gainful
employment and entrepreneurial activities.
Cash for training project (C4TP) for the youth
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Wee said that 146 of the 242
youth-beneficiaries have undergone the Self-Employment Track or the Hanapbuhay
Category training while the remaining 94 beneficiaries on Wage Employment Track
or the Trabajo Category.
The youth-beneficiaries of the Hanapbuhay
Category were also given livelihood tool kits based on their chosen field to
enable them to start their micro-business immediately, she said.
The DSWD provided the funds for the
training and helped identify the beneficiaries through the City Social Welfare
and Development Office while TESDA, through its administered training
institutions and partner technical-vocational institutions conducted the skills
training, she said.
The training programs taken by the 240 C4TP
beneficiaries included Automotive Servicing with Driving, Beauty Care, Bread
and Pastry Production, Computer Hardware Servicing, Electrical Installation
Maintenance, Food and Beverage Services, and Shielded Metal Arc Welding, she
said. (PNA)
HBC/TEOFILO P. GARCIA, JR./UTB
HBC/TEOFILO P. GARCIA, JR./UTB
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