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Amb. Kristie Kenney joins three of 35 out-of-school youth arc welding trainees of USAID’s EQuALLS2 project in Zamboanga City in her last visit to Mindanao on January 8, 2010. |
U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Kristie Kenney visited USAID’s arc welding workforce training for 35 Out-of-School Youth (OSY) in Zamboanga City on January 8, 2010. She encouraged them to take advantage of the training to find jobs that match local or global opportunities. The Philippines’ Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) will provide certificates to graduates of the training who pass a qualifying test. USAID’s Education Quality and Access for Learning and Livelihood Skills (EQuALLS2) project is training 35,000 OSYs from areas most affected by conflict and poverty in Mindanao on globally needed trade skills such as carpentry, masonry, arc welding, plumbing, cell phone repair, and small engine mechanics through 2011. Ambassador Kenney took advantage of the visit to bid farewell to the OSYs, as well as to the elementary students, teachers, school officials, and other community education stakeholders whom EQuALLS2 is assisting, as her term ends soon.
