Solo-Parent scholars graduates from TESDA’s skills training

Davao de Oro --- A total of fourteen solo-parent scholars under the Training for Work Scholarship Program (TWSP) graduated from TESDA’s skills training program on Bread and Pastry Production NC II yesterday at Brgy. Nuevo Iloco, Mawab, Davao de Oro.

The program is part of the agency’s efforts to encourage more women to be empowered through skills training on various courses. Provincial TESDA Director Jasmin Neri congratulated the graduates and thanked them for participating and completing the training that provides a mechanism and will ensure the availability of qualified skilled workers based on the industry’s requirements.

“I’m hoping that these new skills and knowledge you’ve acquired will lead each one of you to become more productive and skillful women of the community,” Neri said.

The graduates underwent eighteen-day skills training and received their Training and National Certificates, and full training allowances during the graduation ceremony.

Ms. Rosa D. Bayani, one of the graduates expressed her gratitude for benefiting the free services of the government that economically empowered women sectors through skills training programs.

“Sulod sa 18-days namu nga training, dako kaayu ang among kalipay ug pagpasamalat lakip na sa amuang mga trainers sa ilahang gipaambit nga kahibalo aron kami makakat-on sama sa pag bake ug mga cakes, breads ug uban pa. Diin magamit namu kini nga additional source of income ug alang usab kini sa ikalambo sa tagsa-tagsa namu ka pamilya,” Bayani stated.

This activity was made successful through collaboration and partnership with DUMPER PTDA Partylist, PLGU Davao de Oro, Provincial Women Development Council (PWDC), Local Government Unit of Mawab, Community Training and Employment Coordinators, and Davao National Agricultural School.

 (Rheafe Hortizano-Provincial Information Division of DdO, Photo courtesy of Jonie Cadiz)

No exact date yet for arrival of COVID-19 vaccines

Vaccination sites should prepare substitute list of vaccinees – DOH

by Analou De Vera 

Manila Bulletin

There is still no confirmed date as to when the vaccines for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) will arrive in the country, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Wednesday, Feb. 10.

Health Assistant DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that the COVAX facility only told them a “tentative schedule” for the arrival of vaccines here.

“Kailangan natin maintindihan (We need to understand) that the dates that were provided to us were indicative dates. The COVAX facility initially told us that by the second or third week of February. Now, this Feb. 15 is an indicative date,” she said in a media forum.

“Kapag sinabi natin na indicative, yan po ay tentative schedule pa lang, wala pa tayong confirmed dates as to when we are going to start. But definitely, pagdating ng bakuna, after two to three days we will start the deployment already… We will give you the exact date kung kailan dadating ang bakuna once we receive the confirmation from the COVAX facility (When we say indicative, that is just a tentative schedule, we do not have confirmed dates as to when we are going to start. But definitely, when the vaccines arrive, after two to three days we will start the deployment already … We will give you the exact date when the vaccines will arrive once we receive the confirmation from the COVAX facility),” she said.

Vergeire, meanwhile, said that all COVID-19 vaccination sites must come up with a Quick Substitution List (QSL) to minimize vaccine wastage. She said that the list must have  20 percent additional names of the total number of recipients in a specific vaccination site.

“We are pegging it, gusto natin meron tayo at least 20 percent. Wala tayong basehan sa 20 percent, pero gusto lang po natin makasigurado na kung sakali dumating tayo doon sa day of vaccination and we will have refusal, at least we have this reserved 20 percent (We are pegging it, we want to have at least 20 percent. We have no basis for this 20 percent, but we just want to make sure that we have a reserved recipient  in case someone refuses to take the vaccine on the vaccination day),” she said.

“We don’t want to have wastage (of vaccines)  in our program so we have this quick substitution list,” she added.

Vergeire said that the DOH will issue guidelines for the QSL.

“The standards will be finalized on who should be included in the QSL, which is also part of our priority list,” she added.