Free skills training awaits disadvantaged workers

MANILA, Philippines — Free skills training will soon be available to women and other disadvantaged workers in Metro Manila.

Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) director general Guiling Mamondiong has signed an agreement with the Metro Manila Mayors’ Spouses Foundation Inc. (MMMSFI) for the implementation of the skills training program.

Under the program, TESDA and MMMSFI will provide skills training,assessment and starter tool kits to urban poor, disadvantaged women, informal workers and other marginalized workers who have no permanent jobs or livelihood.

Beneficiaries may learn hair coloring/bleaching services and hair cutting services for a hairdressing National Certificate (NC) II as well as perform facial treatment, foot spa, facial make-up and pedicure, all leading to beauty care NC II.

Mamondiong said a mobile training and institution-based training for the beneficiaries would also be implemented so beneficiaries won’t have a hard time choosing their “qualifications.”

More women training as electronic technicians

 More Filipino women now want to become electronic technicians, TESDA reported  yesterday.

The agency has been providing Electronic Products Assembly and Servicing (EPAS) training and most of their trainees are women, TESDA National Capital Region director Cenon Querubin said.

With support from Samsung Electronics Philippines Corp., TESDA has extended since 2015 EPAS training to 106 scholars, some of whom are now employed abroad.

“Not a lot of women were open to the idea of becoming electronic technicians in the past, but after they got into the program, they proved to be good at it and realized that what men can do, women can also do,” Samsung marketing director Chad Sotelo noted.