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Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Business group helps Lapu, Danao schools train students on ICT
The support of the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) to the improvement of the Lapu-Lapu City and Danao City Science and Technology Education Centers (Stecs) is a way of helping ensure the sustainable growth of the offshore business process outsourcing sector.
Stecs train high school students on information and communications technology to provide a labor pool for the growing business process outsourcing (BPO) industry.
“The new trend in BPO is an opportunity for Metro Cebu to address unemployment. However, the ill-prepared workforce must be retooled to respond to the demands of the industries,” according to a statement from PBSP.
PBSP is also one of the convenors of the Coalition for Better Education, a consortium of business, academe, government and civil society working to improve the quality of basic education.
PBSP is a private and non-profit foundation dedicated to promoting business sector commitment to social development.
Households
Aside from supporting Stecs, the foundation has been helping about 10,000 households that are dependents of displaced workers of economic zones in Cebu.
“Global economic trends badly affected industries, eventually displacing thousands of skilled workers,” the PBSP said.
PBSP’s response had been to equip these displaced workers with skills to enable to participate in economic activities.
The major interventions of the program include cooperative development, skills enhancement, linkage to resource providers and advocacy.
PBSP is encouraging companies to support any of the following projects of the foundation: Bohol area resource management, corporate volunteers for enterprise development, Cebu Watershed Management, Metro Cebu workforce development and education, Olango Island development, Samar resource management and Southern Leyte rehabilitation, among others. (JBN)
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