BACOLOD City – The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) along with various partner government offices recently launched the Poverty Reduction, Livelihood and Employment Cluster (PRLEC) Project dubbed “Barangayanihan Para sa Kauswagan Sang Barangay Carabalan” in Brgy. Carabalan, Himamaylan City.
TESDA information officer Jenie Notchite said around 107 participants including Armed Forces of the Philippines personnel and Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries and their families attended the rollout of the training program course on heavy equipment operation.
Brgy. Carabalan was the recipient of this program course due to its status as an insurgency-cleared barangay based on the record of the Department of the Interior and Local Government, according to TESDA Negros Occidental acting provincial director Romelia Nuezca.
For his part, TESDA VI regional director Jerry Tizon said the program is part of their agency’s effort as the chair of the Poverty Reduction, Livelihood and Employment Cluster of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict created under Executive Order No. 70
EO 70 primarily seeks to bring government services closer to the people and address problems contributing to insurgency through the whole-of-nation approach.
“We chose Heavy Equipment Operation (Bulldozer) National Competency II course for you because this will be an instrument so that other programs of the government will reach far-flung communities for without roads it will be difficult to bring services to the people,” he added.
Himamaylan City mayor Rogelio Raymund Tongson, Jr. expressed his gratitude to TESDA and its partners for the project. He assured TESDA of his support for whatever development programs that the agency will bring to Himamaylan.(PIA)
