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Saturday, September 03, 2005
Cebu-based welder bags `highest’ category in nat’l award
The national organizers of this year’s President Ramon Magsaysay Outstanding Filipino Award (PRMOFWA) have created a new and higher category to recognize the “very exemplary performance” and qualities of inventor Edward Dampor Sr.
Dampor is one of the nominees of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) 7 to the annual national search for outstanding Filipino workers.
According to Tesda 7 Regional Director Ernesto Beltran, Dampor is the first “National Galing Pinoy” awardee of the PRMOFWA since its establishment in 1998.
Before PRMOFWA only had two categories, the self-employed and wage-employed.
Beltran told Sun.Star Cebu that Dampor exceeded the qualifications of the winners for these categories.
Beltran said the “National Galing Pinoy” award was given to Dampor for his “exemplary performance and his being a role model” to other graduates of Tesda’s Technical Vocational Education Training) program.
Cebu-based Dampor is a graduate of Tesda 7’s course in basic welding. He gained more experience when the company, where he worked, sent him to different project assignments in the country.
He later went to Dubai, where he earned enough capital to establish his own company, Brilliant Metal Craft.
Dampor wrote the first Filipino-authored book on welding. Recently, he launched his invention, a machine that detoxifies and shreds infectious hospital sharps, such as syringe needles.
Dampor is not contented, though. “I consider it my ultimate success when I am able to achieve my dream of providing free regular training on welding to poor Filipinos,” he said. (JBN)
(September 3, 2005 issue)
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