TESDA lights up 60 Benguet households
THE TECHNICAL Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA)-Benguet and its partners illuminated 15 households through Project SILAW ( Solar installation Among Locals to Advance their Welfare) in Sitio Mocgaw, Badeo, Kibungan, Benguet on October 08.
Sitio Mocgaw is one of the identified barangays in Benguet considered the most isolated and depressed area that can be traversed via Santol, La Union by foot in three hours and six hours via Kibungan, Benguet.
An eight day skills training enabled the participants to acquire the competencies on solar installation with the objective of providing them with a source of electricity in their respective houses.
Recently, TESDABenguet illuminated 45 households in Sitio Anjafat, Ambongdolan, Tublay; Sitio Toplac, Pudong, Kapangan and Sitio Ibarangat- Lusod, Kabayan.
“The implementation of the Project “SILAW” is under the Poverty Reduction Livelihood Employment Cluster (PRLEC) in the Geographically Isolated and Depressed Areas (GIDA) TESDA as the chair and depicting
its call TESDA Abot Lahat by extending its services in secluded areas such as Sitio Anjafat, Sitio Toplac, Sitio Ibarangat-Lusod and Sitio Mocgaw all from the Province of Benguet,” said Vilma Cabrera, provincial director of TESDA Benguet.
“It is a manifestation of TESDA’s passion and commitment to serve the Filipino workforce with inclusivity,” she added.
Beneficiaries said the lighting up of the different households is timely and a blessing for them because they have received one of the basic needs for electricity while their children start their schooling where they can charge their gadgets and other forms of technology for them to study.
The participants also expressed their gratitude to TESDA for the opportunity to be trained and be provided with this basic necessity.
The training was funded by the scholarship program of TESDA through the support of TESDA – Cordillera Administrative Region regional director Manuel Wong.
The project was also backed by the local government unit, Department of Trade and Industry, Department of Labor and Employment, Department of Science and Technology, Department of Social Welfare and Development, Philippine National Police, Armed Forces of the Philippines, Department of Public Works and Highways, and the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples.