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==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
'''TESDA-So. Leyte offers three voc-tech courses scholarship training'''
'''National Greening Program gaining headway'''
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R08&article=1301328685584
*Source: http://www.tempo.com.ph/2012/national-greening-program-gaining-headway/#.TzPmiU6PXJc
*Wednesday 8th of February 2012
*Feb 9th, 2012
:by  Marcelo M. Pedalino
:by  www.tempo.com.ph




MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb. 8 (PIA) --  Interested and qualified youths in this city can avail of a scholarship training program for three vocational-technical courses at a private learning school here in partnership with the Technical Education Skills Development Authority (TESDA).
Manila, Philippines – Eastern Visayas (Region was selected as pilot site for the 2012 national Greening Program (NGP), to highlight the region’s record of exceeding its targeted number of hectares with tree seedlings planted since the program was launched on May 2011. Eastern Visayas, consisting of six provinces – Biliran, Eastern Samar, Leyte, Northern Samar, Samar and Southern Leyte – exceeded its 2011 NGP target. It produced 4,052,500 seedlings and planted 8,105 hectares with indigenous tree species and fruit-bearing trees. Eastern Visayas has been given a higher target of 12,365 hectares to be planted with trees this year.
The Bicol Region (Region 5) also surpassed its 2011 target by 12 percent with 6,303 hectares of open and denuded forestland planted with close to 4 million tree seedlings. When the NGP was launched in Bicol in May last year, stakeholders in the region planted 3.9 million tree seedlings in 6,303 hectares of open and denunded forestland. Camarines Sur led with 2,102,578 tree seedlings planted in 3,005 hectares.
In a phone interview with the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) this morning, TESDA provincial director Rolando Juanillo said the three voch-tech courses due to open at the Saint Joseph College (SJC) Vocational Training Center include Metal Arc Welding, Plumbing, and Electrical Wiring.
The Department of National Defense (DND) allocated 12,000 hectares for the establishment of tree nursery sites in military reservations nationwide, including Fort Magsaysay in Nueva Ecija, Kibaritan Military Reservation in Bukidnon and Lanao del Sur, Camp Peralta in Capiz, and Villaviciosa Military Reservation in Abra. In coordination with the Department of Education (DepEd), Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), and the Department of Agriculture (DA), the DND is also propagating bamboo plantations.
The NGP targets the planting of 1.5 billion tree seedlings in 1.5 million hectares nationwide from 2011 to 2016. priority areas include mangrove and protected areas, ancestral domain, civil and military areas, and urban areas under the LGU greening plan. For 2012, the target is 200,000 hectares. The goal is a survival rate of 80 percent by tapping sound upland practices and confining identified planting sites to areas where there are communities that can maintain and ensure growth of the seedlings into mature trees.
Juanillo said he already communicated this opportunity to the 70 barangays all over this city which is the priority area for this TESDA-initiated training, and many have already responded.
The overall objectives of the National Greening Program are poverty reduction, food security, biodiversity conservation, and environment mitigation.
Still, TESDA will not start until all slots are covered. For metal arc welding, 43 slots were made available, and five slots are yet unfilled;  so also with electrical wiring, where 41 slots were granted.Plumbing, which also has 43 slots, were just a little over half filled-up, Juanillo said.
The total of 127 slots for the three mentioned voc-tech courses scholarship training was part of a P 1 million fund set aside by TESDA Secretary Emmanuel Joel Villanueva as the city’s share for this particular project, Juanillo said.
On Saturday during a meeting with heads or representatives of national line agencies called by Rep. Roger Mercado, Josefina Corollo of the provincial TESDA office announced that the Congressman’s request for training was already approved as part of the current scholarship program.
uanillo said the three vocational-technical courses do not discriminate acceptance on whether the applicant is a male or female, as long as he or she is 18 years old and above, and a high school graduate at least.
Welding requires 304 hours or an equivalent of 38 days, plumbing 162 hours or 20 days, while electrical wiring 402 hours or 50 days.  Students who take these courses  will assessed for a National Certificate (NC) 2 level, Juanillos further said. (PIA8-Southern Leyte)


==Photo Gallery of Southern Leyte, Philippines==
==Photo Gallery of Southern Leyte, Philippines==
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