Exactly 120 out-of-school youths (OSCYs) graduated from the Livelihood Skills Training camp in Paglat, Maguindanao on August 4, 2009. The camp was sponsored by USAID’s Education Quality and Access for Learning and Livelihood Skills (EQuALLS2) project and implemented by Synergeia Foundation.

Mayor Abdulkarim Langkuno thanked the USAID and Synergeia, the project’s implementing partner in the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao, for choosing Paglat as one of the project’s beneficiaries.

Twenty-one OSCYs received their TESDA certification during the graduation for completing a course on food processing, 30 from baking, 18 from photographic screen processing, 21 from hairdressing and 30 from carpentry.

With the skills they gained from the short-term trainings, the youth now have a brighter, productive view in life. Most of them are inclined to put up small businesses like bakeries, beauty parlors, T-shirt printing, and streamer businesses.

Carpentry graduates are the ones doing USAID’s Community Learning Center refurbishments in Paglat and have shown great quality of work, local government officials said.

 Out-of-school youth from Paglat, Maguindanao pose during their graduation from the Livelihood Skills Training Camp last August 4, 2009.

 

One of the youths gets his certification during the graduation of the Livelihood Skills Training Camp in Paglat, Maguindanao in ARMM.