KIDAPAWAN CITY, (PNA) — Fifty fresh graduates of Cash for Training Program (C4TP) initiated by the Technical Education Skills and Development Authority (TESDA) – North Cotabato were awarded with free livelihood tool kits here on Tuesday.
Engr. Florante Herrera, TESDA provincial Director personally handed the tool kits during a turnover ceremony held at the city gymnasium.
The beneficiaries came from remote villages in North Cotabato who completed the entrepreneur courses that included automotive and computer hardware servicing on March this year.
Each tool kit package costing P600-P700 is necessary to start off livelihood for the graduates.
The program aims to develop the beneficiaries’ skills and competency to gain work and income independently.
Only last month, close to 400 other beneficiaries of the same program were acknowledged and given the same TESDA kits.
Recipients of C4TP are from poor families or members of the government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) in Kidapawan City and 17 municipalities in the province.
The program recipients are subjected for validation and approval by the Department of Social Welfare and Development office (DSWD), which is TESDA’s partner agency in the C4TP implementation.
Herrera said that C4TP would continue next year and encouraged high school undergraduate students to enroll under the scheme.