The TESDA graduates underwent 19 days of bread and pastry production during the last quarter of 2022, equivalent to 141 hours of training. They received a National Certificate II upon the completion of the training (Photo courtesy of PGOM Sablayan).
SAN JOSE, Occidental Mindoro (PIA) — Forty-nine (49) bread and pastry production graduates of Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) from the municipality of Sablayan recently received starter tool kits comprising ISO-certified oven, and baking tools and equipment.
The TESDA scholarship includes allowances and the provision of starter kits to provide entrepreneurship opportunities to their graduates.
According to Sablayan local government OIC Gracia Zamonte-Fille, they are planning on organizing the graduates into an association and provide complimentary bread and pastry projects to further boost the beneficiaries’ livelihood and productivity, and to be a supplier of bread to Coron, Palawan.
“Bubuuin namin [‘yung mga graduates] as association [para magkaroon sila ng] bakery na shifting schedule, kasi may [kailangan ng] supplier ng tinapay sa Coron, Palawan. Sila ang magiging supplier n’on sa coordination ni Mayor ng Coron, and Sablayan Mayor Walter Marquez (We will organize the graduates into an association for them to have a bakery with shifting schedule, as Coron, Palawan is in need of a bread supplier. They will become a bread supplier for the municipality in coordination between the Coron Mayor and Sablayan Mayor Walter Marquez),” Zamonte-Fille said.
To provide wider livelihood opportunities to TESDA graduates of bread and pastry production, the local government of Sablayan is eyeing to tap the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to provide food packaging training.
The TESDA graduates underwent 19 days of bread and pastry production during the last quarter of 2022, equivalent to 141 hours of training. They received a National Certificate II upon the completion of the training. (DSG/PIA Mimaropa-OccMin)
