Tuesday, May 27, 2003
Caregiving schools help Pinoys in their quest to earn big
By Arvy Enjambre-Lopez
Sun.Star Correspondent
IF, for some, working abroad and earning big money seems totally out of reach, then obtaining the dream of earning dollars is now made easier with the caregiving schools in the city.
Today, aside from other medical professionals, caregivers are perhaps among the most sought after by foreign countries hiring overseas workers.
According to Fe Mantua-Ruiz, owner of Ruiz Beauty and Healthcare Training Institute, which started classes last May 19, some 37 students are already enrolled in her school.
She said enrollees in her school, which is across the Mabolo Elementary School, need only to be high school graduates.
The caregiving school offers six modules like the care for the elderly, care for children and specially abled, communication training, personality development training, home management training, and legal and ethics training.
Ruiz said enrollees are asked to pay P2,500 a month within the six-month
period it will take to complete the six modules.
On the other hand, Bernard Restificar, branch owner of Manila-based Center for Healthcare Professions, said that through their school, he and his wife, Myrna, would be able to fulfill the dreams of the Filipinos in either going abroad or learning the basics of caregiving.
The school, which has 11 branches nationwide and is set to open eight more, is affiliated with the Asilo de la Milagrosa.
Restificar said their students would spend 200 hours of practicum in Asilo while 760 hours is for lecture class training.
The school, located at Ma. Cristina Ext., in Barangay Camputhaw, offers 10 modules to the students for P15,000.
He added that once the students graduate from the six-month caregiving course, they would be given two certificates, the home health aids and the caregivers certificate.
“The purpose of these two certificates is that when you go to the US and apply as a caregiver, you will be called a home health aid,” he said.
Europe, Canada and Asia, on the other hand, he said, are the ones that use the term caregivers.
The school, which opened classes for its first batch of students last April 7, is still accepting reservations for its July 7 classes.
The four-year-old Intercontinental Healthcare Consultants Inc., one of the pioneer caregiving schools in Cebu, which also has a review center in Manila, offers seven subjects to be completed in six months. Applicants should be high school graduates who have acquired at least 72 units in college.
Intercontinental, located on Krizia Bldg. on Gorordo Ave., has registered nurses as teachers. And the students, she said, will have their practicum at hotels and orphanages in the city.
She said the enrollment fee for applicants is P18,000, and students can pay the amount on an installment basis.
(May 27, 2003 issue)
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