240 Zambo youth complete 6-month skills training

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.

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

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 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.

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)
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