These drug surrenderers, according to PNP Regional Director Chief Supt.
Gilberto Cruz are ready to return to normal lives and become productive
citizens with the new skills acquired.
“The trainings are designed not just to help them earn money for their
own and their family, but become first responders in their communities during
calamities and emergencies,” Cruz added.
Courses offered to the surrenderers from the region’s six provinces are
motorcycle servicing, service consumer electronic products and systems, food
processing, organic vegetables cultivation, organic chicken raising, massage,
emergency search and rescue, stress management, traffic management, village
peacekeeping operations, self-defense techniques, environmental protection,
conflict management, internal security operations, community integration,
counseling, and healing.
There will be a graduation ceremony on March 5 at the Araw camp in this
town. The Korean Army established the camp as their hub during the emergency
phase after super typhoon Yolanda flattened Leyte towns in 2013.
The beneficiaries are expected to become trainers in their respective
communities after their learning.
Each of them will receive a training completion certificate and an
identification card from the PNP stating that they are fit to work.
Partners of the PNP in this program are the Technical Skills Development
Authority, Department of Health, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, Armed
Forces of the Philippines, Tacloban Rescue Unit, Bureau of Fire Protection, the
Leyte provincial government, Department of Social Welfare and Development, and
private institutions.
On Sunday, the PNP sponsored a fun run dubbed as “Takbo para sa
Pagbabago” (Run for Change) to raise funds as start-up capital for the 200 drug
surrenderers.
The PNP will start the second batch of training in March enlisting 300
former drug users and traders as participants. (RTA/PNA)
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