Caloocan offers free vocational courses to residents

Caloocan City Mayor Enrico Echiverri urged yesterday unemployed city residents to avail themselves of the government-sponsored vocational courses.

He said that from January to June, thousands of residents benefited from the city’s employment programs, based on the report submitted to him by the Labor and Industrial Relations Office or LIRO.

Echiverri said that for the same period last year, more than 1,700 residents were given regular jobs and around 2,900 were given relevant referral to private companies.

LIRO chief Angeles Basconcillo said that apart from job generation, their office also provides livelihood and skills training, and outreach programs to the community.

She said that LIRO had already provided skills and livelihood training to around 7,000 residents.

Basconcillo also said that under the city government’s one-year technical vocational program, applicants can select from various courses that LIRO offers.

Resident can learn personal computer operation, computer hardware servicing, automotive servicing, building wiring installation, consumer electronic servicing, cell phone repair, refrigerator and air conditioner servicing, hair dressing, dress-making, food processing and preservation, fashion apparel-making, cosmetology, reflexology, food preparation, cooking and baking, soap and detergent-making and candle and novelty items-making. – Pete Laude