Lapu-Lapu City to train women on livelihood skills

CEBU, Philippines - Livelihood skills trainings have been lined up in Lapu-Lapu City this week, as part of the observance of the Women's Month.

Jimmy Glomar, coordinator of the Lapu-Lapu City Cooperative and Livelihood Resource Center, said about 1,500 women will benefit from the different trainings, mostly on food-making.

Tomorrow, the Center will conduct training-on basic haircut, manicure and pedicure, detergent soap and dishwashing liquid making, and making of embutido and fresh lumpia-at the Lapu-Lapu City Sports Complex, where a trade and food fair will also be held.

Glomar said the livelihood training are open to women from the 30 barangays of the city. He encouraged them to take advantage of these to help augment their family income.

"One of the Millennium Development Goals is women empowerment and gender equality. One way of achieving that is to increase the income of women," Glomar said in a press conference last Friday.

Apart from livelihood trainings, the city held gender sensitivity training and seminars on bookkeeping, marketing and business proposal making, among others.

The city's celebration of Women's Month will end on March 28 with a team-building and mangrove planting in the Island Eco-Tourism Park at sitio Asinan in Barangay Sabang of Olango Island.

The city recently launched the eco-tourism park last year to provide livelihood to women and their families in Asinan.

Glomar said women in the city have been participating in mangrove-planting activities but it will be the first time mangrove-planting is included in the Women's Month activities. —RAE (FREEMAN)