Tacloban to put up mobile classes for livelihood program

TACLOBAN CITY, Jan. 10 (PNA) – A locally-initiated livelihood program that has been running for nine years will go mobile this year, the city government announced on Tuesday.

Cristina’s Learn and Earn Program (CLEP), a comprehensive livelihood and entrepreneural program named after Mayor Cristina G. Romualdez, will launch mobile classes to reach out to more villages.

The classes will serve as stations for trainors and enrollees of the program course.

"This is our intervention wherein enrollees don't have to come to our office anymore. They can immediately proceed to these mobile classes situated in their village for enrolment, inquiries and other matters,” said Maeflor N. Espiño, CLEP coordinator.

For the past nine years, the program has already helped 9,414 jobless residents who were equipped with skills in different courses offered such as food processing, dress making, bartending, reflexology and cosmetology.

Unlike in the previous years, community-based trainings can now be done in different areas through mobile classes.

"We will be putting up mobile classes mostly in Tacloban north resettlement areas, which will be our focus this year, since the families living there lack livelihood opportunities after being transferred to their new homes," Espiño added.

The program will deploy trainors accredited by Technical Education and Skills Development Authority.

For this year, CLEP will still follow their previous courses and training systems and will continue to create interventions for more efficient programs. (PNA)

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