Friday, February 01, 2008 Civic groups help scholars
CLOSE to 200 students received a scholarship grant of over P1 million from two civic groups who seek to make the project a continuing program
The Rotary Club of Mactan (District 3860) and Rotary Club of Collingwood South Georgian Bay, Canada, through the Rotary Foundation Matching Grant 64366 allocated P1,164,000 for the scholarship grant of 188 scholars who will enrol at the Center for Industrial Technology and Enterprise (Cite).
The beneficiaries include 185 who qualified for slots for Production Technology (short-term course) and three slots for the three-year Industrial Technician Program.
The scholars are required to maintain a certain average and are encouraged to sponsor a scholar when they already have regular employment in the future.
This is to help sustain the program and extend more scholarship and employment opportunities to the youth.
The program is in accordance with Republic Act 7686 or the Dual Training System Act of 1994, which allows student recipients of the grant to have their one-year on-the-job training at any partner company at the Mactan Economic Zone for the Industrial Skills Training Program.
Getting jobs
The program also includes the one-and-a-half-year training for the Industrial Technician Program.
Since the scholars have established relationships and have earned the trust of the companies while on training, they have better employment opportunities upon completion of the program.
Rotary Club Mactan president Maita Manglapus, with District 3860 Literacy Program chairperson Sylvia Comen-dador and the club’s chairperson for Literacy Dr. Caridad Labe, who represented RC Mactan, recently signed a memorandum of agreement with Cite representatives Armad Millan III and Boni Mercado Jr.
