Government helps people’s organizations receive livelihood assistance

Davao de Oro --- A total of seventy-one people’s organizations (POs) received certificates and tool kits in a ceremony held in Barangay Tibagon, Pantukan, Davao de Oro on June 27, 2020.

Two tailoring machine, native bags, and food packs were given to the POs who completed their 5-day Sapang Lubog Livelihood Skills Training Program on massage therapy, tailoring, nail care, and welding services.

This made possible with the help of Local Government Unit (LGU) of Pantukan in partnership with Municipal Council of Women, Municipal Community Teaching and Employment Coordinator and in collaboration of 71st Infantry Battalion. 

All POs are members of Sapang Lubog Women's Association (SALUWA) and Asosasyon sa Nagkahiusang Grupo sa Kadafa, Sapang Lubog, Sapang Tin-aw Tibagon Integrated Motorist (ANGKASS-TIM) that was organized by Community Development Team (CDT).

The assistance is one of the programs of government to sustain livelihood development in the grassroot communities in the province.

Meanwhile, twenty-one members of Kaibigan People's Advocacy for Collaboration and Empowerment (KPEACE) received food packs and six sacks of feeds for their pigs.

The Provincial Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (PTF-ELCAC) of Davao de Oro, is still aims to achieve inclusive and sustainable peace, of carefully getting to the root causes of conflicts in the whole province.

Oplan Pagbabago is anchored on President Rodrigo Duterte's Executive Order Number (EO) 70 which aims to create a national peace framework and institutionalize the whole-of-nation approach.

(Rheafe Hortizano, ID Davao de Oro)

50 IPs receive skills training from TESDA

Davao de Oro --- Fifty members of Indigenous Peoples (IPs) in the province received free skills training from Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) to uplift their lives and to be equipped with the necessary skills that would qualify them for work.

The recent training was held in Bryg. Upper Ulip, Monkayo, Davao de Oro.

TESDA's objective of providing skills training program to all sectors is anchored on their TESDA Abot Lahat program.

Twenty-five IPs recipients for Electrical Installation and Maintenance (EIM) under the Training for Work Scholarship Program (TWSP) while twenty-five IPs granted for Carpentry under Community-Based Training.

The program was in partnership with Davao National Agricultural School (DNAS) of Montevista and Korea Philippines Vocational Training Center of Davao City which provided the skills training.

An orientation on social distancing, wearing face masks, and other health protocols were implemented to edify IPs on how to protect themselves from dreadful effects brought by COVID-19 pandemic.

More training awaits and to be implemented in Upper Ulip including Masonry and Construction Painting to complete the construction of the AGAK Center as a multi-purpose hall.

Meanwhile, forty-eight Rice Extension Services Program (RESP) scholars who took Modified Farmers Field School on Modernized Production of High Quality Inbred Rice and Seed Certification received their training allowances last month. (Rheafe Hortizano, ID Davao De Oro – Photos by TESDA Davao de Oro)