Key Philippine Military and Insurgency-Related Events: AFP-CRS: Certification Ceremony of the Former Rebels under the TESDA Livelihood Training Program

Sunday, July 7, 2019

AFP-CRS: Certification Ceremony of the Former Rebels under the TESDA Livelihood Training Program – 04 July 2019

Posted to the Armed Forces of the Philippines-Civil Relations Service (AFP-CRS) Facebook Page (Jul 7, 2019): Certification Ceremony of the Former Rebels under the TESDA Livelihood Training Program – 04 July 2019

Last 4th of July 2019 at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, BGEN BAGNUS P GAERLAN JR AFP, Commander, 102ND (IGSOON) Brigade represented by LTC DON D TEMPLONUEVO INF (GSC) PA, Commanding Officer, 44IB with 2LT LEAHLET M MANIEGO (QMS) PA, Brigade Acting CMO Officer and 2LT MA MELVA G LOGROÑO (SC) PA, Civil Military Operations Officer, 44IB participated in the Certification Ceremony of the Former Rebels under the TESDA Livelihood Training Program held at Provincial Capitol Center Podium, Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay Province.

This activity was made successful because of the commitment of the Province of Zamboanga Sibugay under the leadership of Hon. Wilter Yap Palma, Provincial Governor – ZSP in support to the Executive Order No. 70 (A Whole of Nation Approach to end Local Communist Armed Conflict) and the Provincial Task Force – ELCAC of Zamboanga Sibugay through the Community Support Program (CSP).

This interagency coordination seeks to help the NPA affected barangays of Sibugay and give a chance to the rebels to return to the folds of the law, start a new life and be reintegrated in the mainstream society.

A total of ninety five (95) former rebels successfully completed the TESDA Livelihood Training (masonry, carpentry, SMAW and plumbing). It aims to educate the former rebels and their immediate families to earn skills to improve their way of living and convince their CNT family members and friends to surrender and avail the Enhancement Comprehensive Local Integration Program (E-CLIP).

Other attendees were: PCOL JERRY V PROTACIO, Provincial Director, ZSPPO; Engr. Romel G. Duran, Provincial Poverty Reduction Action Officer (PPRAO); Dir. Vincent Atienza Cifra, MA, Regional Director, TESDA Region IX; Engr. Amir M. Ampao, Provincial Director TESDA Zamboanga Sibugay; Mrs. Imelda Gatinao, Provincial Labor Officer; Ms. Junila Reganon, DSWD Provincial SWADT; Dir. Oliver Ombos, DILG Provincial Director; Mrs. Greta D. Sabroso, Ed. D., Vocational School Administrator III Kabasalan Institute of Technology and the Media headed by Mrs Elvie Manaytay.

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