The Las Piñas City government said it will continue to provide more scholarship grants to poor but deserving students to meet the city’s goal of total literacy and livelihood through equal opportunity in education.
“It is my commitment to see every young city resident earn a college degree or diploma and that no one shall be deprived of opportunity to free education,” Mayor Vergel Aguilar said.
The scholarship grant will benefit qualified high school graduates who wish to finish at least two-year course or continue a four-year diploma course.
Interested students may apply with the city’s Department of Social Welfare and Services.
Aguilar said the city government also provides free college education at the Dr. Filemon C. Aguilar Memorial College.
Aguilar reiterated his pledge during the turnover of PGMA Scholarship grants to the city through representatives of the Technological Education and Skills Development Administration (TESDA).
TESDA district director Angela Gabriel gave the PGMA study endowment to Aguilar and told him that additional grants could be possible, depending on the number of qualified scholars endorsed by the city.
The city’s TESDA center, under director Ver Aguilar, offers skills development and training for city residents and those living in neighboring cities and provinces. It produces more than two thousand graduates every year.
Graduates are provided referrals for job placements in various companies in the city through the assistance of the Public Employment Service Office.
Since 1995, the TESDA center has produced more than 30,000 graduates who are now successfully employed, while others run their own small business.
The center offers free courses on automotive trouble shooting, commercial electricity, short computer courses, cosmetology, data encoding, high-speed sewing, dressmaking, hotel and restaurant services, food trade, welding, refrigeration, air-conditioning and cosmetology. – Rhodina Villanueva