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Over 70K OFWs, dependents avail of TESDA’s skills training program amid pandemic


The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) said Tuesday more than 70,000 repatriated overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) as well as their dependents have enrolled in the agency’s skills development training programs amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a Palace briefing, TESDA Director-General Isidro Lapeña said the skills training programs were offered to displaced OFWs affected by the global health crisis to boost their employability in the country.

“At present, mayroon tayong mga 73,000 OFWs at saka mga dependents nila who have enrolled and graduated in TESDA's skills training programs, kasama na diyan iyong training sa TESDA online program natin," Lapeña said.

The TESDA chief said the employability rate of those who have undergone the agency’s skills training program is high at 85%, noting that they have been either hired or have started their own businesses.

Lapeña said OFWs and their dependents can get job opportunities in agriculture, construction, information technology-business process management, health and wellness, and logistics and marketing.

The TESDA chief called on OFW-returnees to take up training courses through the agency’s mobile app.

"Kung mayroon mga naka-register diyan, our regional offices and provincial officers reach out to them para makausap sila kung ano 'yong mga interest nila, ano ang skills na gusto nilang ma-train at saka after that, they will be helped na magkaroon ng trabaho," Lapeña said.

TESDA chief added that trainees are given the following allowances:

  •     P160 training allowance
  •     P500 internet allowance
  •     P500 health/personal protective equipment allowance
  •     One-year accident allowance

Lapeña said a total of 965,929 have enrolled in the TESDA's online courses since the onset of community quarantine mid-March.

Of the total enrollees, 452,992 have completed their skills training programs.—AOL, GMA News

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