Monday, May 29, 2006
Business council continues to assist Ascend grads
ASSISTANCE to graduates of skills training under the Assistance for Comprehensive Educational Development of Mindanao (Ascend-Mindanao) has continued by matching them with job opportunities in their respective areas.
The Mindanao Business Council, through the MinBC-Ascend project management team, will facilitate the continuing assistance, as it will establish the skills training and industry immersion, online job and community-based enterprise renewal system.
Also tapped by MinBC in the system matching are its partner chambers in each area.
Part of the preparation was the conduct of skills training and industry immersion (STII) online management training last week with representatives coming from the chambers of commerce and industry of Zamboanga City and Metro Cotabato and the Technical Schools Development Authority (Tesda) of Pagadian City.
The Zamboanga chamber and Tesda Pagadian will be assisting the trainees from Dinas, Zamboanga and Talipao, Sulu while Metro Cotabato Chamber will handle those from Midsayap, North Cotabato and Datu Piang, Maguindanao.
The participants were given orientation about the STII Online, its purpose, mechanics and functions as well as steps on accessing, managing and updating information in their area.
The trainees also designed an administrative and ccoordinating mechanism between MinBC and its partners.
Those who joined the training will eventually become the Area STII Online Managers while the overall STII Online Administrator will be the Ascend STII MIS Officer lodged at the MinBC.
The training for out-of-school youths in conflict-affected areas is part of MinBC program in coordination with the Office of Education of the United States Assistance for International Development and The Save the Children Foundation, Inc.
To date some 578 graduates have undergone skills training and industry immersion in their respective areas.
They were trained on cellphone repair, baking, food processing, small engine servicing, seaweed farming and management, banana planting and handling, and welding or steel fabrication.
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