BORONGAN CITY, August 10 (PIA) -- Secretary Isidro S. Lapeña of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) will launch the “Agrikultura at Kabuhayan tungo sa Kaunlaran At Pangkapayapaan” (AKKAP) in Can-avid, Eastern Samar on August 25, 2020.
This is according to Dr. Antonio C. Waniwan, provincial director of TESDA Eastern Samar.
TESDA is the lead agency of the Poverty Reduction, Livelihood and Employment Cluster (PRLEC) of the Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (TF-ELCAC).
Dr. Waniwan disclosed that there are three priority project component to be launched such as vegetable production, native chicken meat and egg production, and rice milling project.
The acting provincial director said TESDA will start the training course for Barangay Pandol beneficiaries on August 11, 2020. The three courses are: Carpentry NC-II for 51 days, Masonry NC-II for 31 days, and organic vegetable production NC-II for 39 days.
There are three cooperative organizations in Brgy. Pandol recognized by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). Each organization is given 25 participants, and the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) identified the said participants.
TESDA will give P5,000 in structural materials, Protective Personal Equipment (PPE) allowance of P500, Internet Allowance – P500, Daily Living Allowance – P160 and free T-shirt support in the amount of P450.
“I expect that after the training, the trainees will build a poultry house, the trained masons will build a Rice Mill, and the trainees for vegetable production will establish a farm,” Dr. Waniwan said.
“The concept of the said training, is a training with output, if there is an output that is already their source of income,” Dr. Waniwan added. The project aims to provide customized livelihood programs to farmer cooperators of conflict-stricken barangays and increase farm productivity and income of the target beneficiaries.
The project also wants to ensure household and community food security; increase resilience of farming activities through modern technology; enhance the use of uncultivated lands, and provide capacity building programs among farmer cooperators on entrepreneurship, and product packaging and processing.
The three Brgys. Boco, Pandol and Balagon of Can-avid have been tagged by Philippine Army (PA) as insurgency-influenced. These barangays can be reached through a motorboat ride via Can-avid River for four hours.
The PRLEC initiative is one of the convergence programs under the Executive Order No. 70 aimed to better the services of the government for communities, especially vulnerable ones, as part of the government’s efforts to promote sustainable and inclusive peace. (nbq/SDC/PIA-E. Samar)
Source: Philippines Information Agency (pia.gov.ph)
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