Better lives await former out-of-school youth
By Charles E. Buban
CHARLIE Belano got to where he is now by hard work and maintaining a readiness to pounce when opportunity comes knocking.
CHARLIE Belano got to where he is now by hard work and maintaining a readiness to pounce when opportunity comes knocking.
He makes manpower training the center of the Aquino administration’s efforts to post giant growth strides. Secretary Joel Emmanuel Villanueva, director general of the Tesda, says he wants to lead people to employment, raise their incomes, and eventually make them part of a strong middle class.
The Business Processing Association of the Philippines (BPAP) and the government agency responsible for technical education have teamed up to develop a program aimed at improving the skills of trainers in the business process outsourcing industry.
From small-time to big-time. A government agency has joined forces with a multinational company to help women traders become more successful in running their business.
For 14 young students, being separated from family and friends for two years is a sacrifice worth making. “If we just stayed home, we will only be continuing the cycle of poverty that my family and my community are in to. For generations we have been subsisting on farming or fishing, which is barely enough [...]
For teenagers growing up in some of the country’s poorest towns, the life that awaits them a few years from now could be no different from what their older folks are currently experiencing: a harsh life of either farming or fishing if not peddling or becoming a household helper, lines of work that could barely [...]
