OWWA gives livelihood skills training to Bayugan City OFC


OWWA gives livelihood skills training to Bayugan City OFC
BUTUAN CITY, June 29 – In its endeavor to capacitate its member OFWs with essential skills for livelihood augmentation, the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) Regional Welfare Office Caraga in partnership with the Philippine Coconut Authority recently afforded the members of Bayugan City United OFWs and Family Association (BCUOFA) a two day skills training on Virgin Coconut Oil and Coco Products Processing held in Bayugan City.
 
Coconut Production and Regulation Officer III Ernalyn Colon and Coconut Development Officer Ronald S. Musico of PCA Caraga, facilitated the training to some twenty five (25) participants.
 
Among the finished products presented during the culmination activity include: Virgin Coconut Oil, Bucarillo, Bukayo, Macaroons, Buko pie and vinegar sauce, which is still on the process phase.
 
Henry Villamor, President of Bayugan City OFC expressed his gratitude to OWWA for providing them their first organizational development training.
 
“Thank you OWWA for all your efforts, we are very proud that you really came here for us,” Villamor said in local dialect.
 
Villamor also conveyed his gratefulness to the resource speakers for sharing their learning to them. “The training imparted to us that there are many simple means to make use of the coconut in order to increase our daily household income,” he added.
 
In his message, regional director Samuel Madrid of OWWA Caraga congratulated all the participants for satisfactorily completing the two day training. He also appreciated the support extended by the City Government of Bayugan City through its Public Service Employment Office headed by Vice Mayor Charles Anggayong, as well as the efforts of the resource speakers for the realization of the said activity.
 
Madrid disclosed that in the Province of Agusan del Sur, it was first time for OWWA together with PCA to conduct the said techno transfer in Bayugan City. Further, Madrid bared that this endeavor of the government primarily aims to alleviate poverty.
 
“Sana ito ay hindi katapusan ng inyong mga enhancement trainings or skills trainings, kundi sana ito ay maging panimula ng inyong continuing educational process,” Madrid told the members of Bayugan City United OFWs and Family Association.

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