Mamondiong nanguna sa pag-turn over ng TESDA training center sa Manolo Fortich
News Release
Public Information Unit
TESDA
August 31, 2018
Mamondiong nanguna sa pag-turn over ng TESDA training center sa Manolo Fortich
Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon—Personal na pinangunahan kahapon ni Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Secretary at Director General Guiling “Gene” Mamondiong ang paglilipat sa lokal na pamahalaan ng Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon sa pangunguna ni Mayor Clive Quino ng pamamahala sa TESDA training facility sa Barangay Tangkulan sa nasabing lalawigan.
Sa ginanap na turn-over ceremony na dinaluhan nina Rep. Ma. Lourdes Acosta-Albang First District of Bukidnon, TESDA OIC Deputy Director General Gaspar Gayona, Assistant Executive Director Sonia Lipio, Provincial Director Kotie Bax, at mga opisyal ng Manolo Fortich na kinabibilangan nina Vice Mayor Miguel Demate at mga miyembro ng Sangguniang Bayan, sinabi ni Secretary Mamondiong na umaasa at nagtitiwala siya na ang Manolo Fortich Technical Skills and Development Center ay magiging skills development hub na magbibigay ng skills training para sa anim na bayan na sakop ng unang distrito ng Bukidnon.
Ang TESDA ay tumulong sa pagpapaayos at rehabilitasyon sa nasabing training center.
“By devolving to you our community-based training function, we demonstrate to you our trust that you will make this training facility a center of excellence. Your willingness to accept this devolution, for which I am very pleased, indicates your support to the reform agenda of the government,” ani Mamondiong.
Ayon sa TESDA Chief, inatasan siya ni Pangulong Rodrigo R. Duterte na tugunan ang mga pangangailangan ng mga technical vocational education and training (TVET) sa Manolo Fortich, na umano’y dahilan kung kaya tatlong beses na niya itong dinadalaw sa loob ng dalawang taon.
Malugod namang tinanggap ni Mayor Quino ang Technical Skills and Development Center, nakaatang na mga tungkilin at responsibilidad para dito. “We accept with open arms and open hearts the Technical Skills and Development Center and the functions and responsibility that goes with the devolution, because I have seen in TESDA and in Sec. Mamondiong his commitment and dedication to TVET. This is complementary to our program to provide free, quality education to our people.”
Sinabi ni Mamodiong na pangarap niya na ang bawat bayan sa bansa ay magkaroon ng sariling TESD center at tiniyak nito na makikipagtulungan siya sa Kongreso at Department of Budget and Management (DBM) upang maisakatuparan ito.
Kasabay sa nasabing turn-over, ipinagkaloob din ni Mamondiong ang kauna-unahang registered program ng Center , ang kursong Organic Agriculture NC ll at kasama rito ang 150-slot scholarship, na karamihan ay para sa mga katutubo sa naturang munisipalidad.
Samantala, sinabi ni Mamodiong na magbibigay ng P5 milyon ang ahensya bilang pantapat sa g P5 million pledge ni Rep. Acosta-Alba na gagamitong pondo para sa agarang pagpapatayo ng dormitory para sa mga trainees.
Ito’y bilang tugon sa hamon ni Deputy Director General Gayona na gawing sustainable ang center at nangako ng dagdag pang TESDA scholarship slots sa local government unit (LGU) kung kinakailangan.
Kasabay sa pagbubukas ng Manolo Fortich Technical Skills and Development Center,mahigpit na itinagubilin ni Mamondiong sa mga lokal na opisyal na huwag maging ‘choosy’ o walang mangyayaring diskriminasyon sa pagpili ng mga trainee-scholars.
“My only request to you is not to discriminate in the selection of your trainee-scholars. We have a responsibility to serve those who have the least in our communities, particularly the members of the indigenous peoples,” mahigpit nitong tagubilin.
Ang training facility na nakatayo sa 1,800-sq.m na lupain ng lokal na pamahalaan, ay itinayo noong Nobyembre 2016 sa ilalim ng co-management scheme noong nakaraang administrasyon, subalit napabayaan lamang.
Nang umupo si Mamondiong, ang TESDA ay pumasok sa isang memorandum of agreement (MOA) sa LGU ng Manolo Fortich para tumulong sa pagpapaayos sa pasilidad. Si Rep Acosta-Alba ay naglaan ng pondo mula sa kanyang district community program para sa rehabilitasyon at pagmamantini sa pasilidad.
Ang rehabilitasyon sa Manolo Fortich Technical Skills and Development Center ay natapos nitong Mayo. Ito ang kauna-unahang local TESDA training facility na gagamit ng solar power, na magiging ‘green and environment-friendly.” (END)
News Release
Public Information Unit
TESDA
August 31, 2018
In Bukidnon, TESDA’s Mamondiong turns over training center to Manolo Fortich town
Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon—The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) here yesterday chalked up a first under the leadership of Secretary and Director General Guiling “Gene” Mamondiong when it devolved its community-based training function to the local government of Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon, symbolized by the turnover of the TESDA training facility in Barangay Tangkulan to Manolo Fortich Mayor Clive Quino.
In a turn-over ceremony attended by Rep. Ma. Lourdes Acosta-Alba of the First District of Bukidnon, TESDA OIC Deputy Director General Gaspar Gayona, Assistant Executive Director Sonia Lipio, Provincial Director Kotie Bax, and Manolo Fortich officials that included Vice Mayor Miguel Demate and members of the Sangguniang Bayan, Secretary Mamondiong expressed hope and confidence that the Manolo Fortich Technical Skills and Development Center, which TESDA itself helped rehabilitate and refurbish, will soon become a skills development hub that serves the skills training need of the six towns comprising the first district.
“By devolving to you our community-based training function, we demonstrate to you our trust that you will make this training facility a center of excellence. Your willingness to accept this devolution, for which I am very pleased, indicates your support to the reform agenda of the government,” said Mamondiong, who bared that he had received instruction from no less than President Rodrigo R. Duterte to attend to the TVET needs of Manolo Fortich, the reason he had visited the town at least three times in the last two years.
“We accept with open arms and open hearts the Technical Skills and Development Center and the functions and responsibility that goes with the devolution, because I have seen in TESDA and in Sec. Mamondiong his commitment and dedication to TVET. This is complementary to our program to provide free, quality education to our people,” Mayor Quino said in his acceptance remarks.
Mamondiong said his vision is for every town in the country to have its own TESD center and said he will work with Congress and the Department of Budget and Management towards the realization of this vision.
During the turn-over, Mamondiong delivered the training center’s first registered program with TESDA, a course on Organic Agriculture NC II, and with it, a 150-slot scholarship, mostly for indigenous peoples in the municipality.
He also matched the P5 million pledge of Rep. Acosta-Alba to finance the immediate construction of a trainee’s dormitory—in response to the challenge of Deputy Director General Gayona to make the center sustainable—and committed further TESDA scholarship slots to the LGU if the need arises.
“You can already start operating the Manolo Fortich Technical Skills and Development Center,” Sec. Mamondiong said. “My only request to you is not to discriminate in the selection of your trainee-scholars. We have a responsibility to serve those who have the least in our communities, particularly the members of the indigenous peoples,” he added.
The training facility, which sits on a 1,800-sq.m local government property, was established in November 2016 under a co-management scheme in the previous administration, but was soon forgotten and the facility moved swiftly into a state of disrepair.
When Sec. Mamondiong came to office, the TESDA entered into a memorandum of agreement with the LGU of Manolo Fortich, which assumed part of the responsibility to rehabilitate the facility. Rep. Acosta-Alba herself, under her district community training program, allocated funds for the facility’s rehabilitation and upkeep.
In May of this year, the Manolo Fortich TESD Center’s rehabilitation was completed. It is the first local TESDA training facility using solar power, making it green and environment-friendly
