BuB graduates cited in Baguio

BAGUIO CITY – Ninety-eight Bottom-up-Budgeting (BuB) training project graduates were honored during graduation ceremonies at city hall here Monday.

Recipients of fund grant from the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) and trained through the Technical Education Skills Development Authority (TESDA), 42 grantees finished automotive servicing and sdervice engine mechanical component; 24 for hilot wellness massage; and 32 for dressmaking. Training expenses for the sessions amount to about P700,000. 

Most of the grantees also attended a two-day entrepreneurship training with certification distributed by TESDA Baguio officer Angela Gabriel, witnessed by Mayor Mauricio Domogan, Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Baguio field office head Evelyn Trinidad and City Poverty Reduction and Alleviation Team (CPRAT) officer Judith Maranes. Before the program ended, reimbursement transportation allowances were distributed to the trainees.

Up for training from July to December this year are 850 trainees in pastry making, cookery, food processing, seedling production, computer service and weaving courses, through the TESDA and Dept. of Labor and Employment (DOLE).  

Mayor Domogan, a staunch supporter of livelihood training programs encouraged the trainees to put what they learned to good use. – Julie G. Fianza