“We have a special partnership with the KAANIB Foundation on top of the special training under TESDA,” she said, emphasizing that the foundation made the request for TESDA to conduct training for flood-affected families that it has identified.
For interested people’s organizations and local government units, Neri said they just have to submit a list of training recipients with their letter of intent to TESDA for them to be prioritized.
The TESDA special training session for the calamity-affected families forms part of the “TESDA sa Barangay” program as a way of bringing down at the grassroots the skills training needed by communities in the lowland and upland.
“Ang mga IPs (Indigenous peoples), former rebels, disaster-affected, kana sila ang atong mas palanggaon, mas tutukan ug mas hatagan ug atong mga skills training. We would like to have their own livelihood or income-generating activities, para ma transform ang ilang lives (to transform their lives),” she said.
(Indigenous Peoples, former rebels, and disaster-affected individuals are the ones we prioritize, focus on, and provide skills training to.) (JMDA/PIA Davao del Norte)