Apayao tech-voc grads, volunteers make facemasks for frontliners

LUNA, Apayao – More than 50 tech-voc graduates and volunteers in cooperation with Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) and rovincial government and Apayao Training Center (ATC) have embared on a venture to produce face masks for Covid-19 frontliners.

TESDA Apayao director Roger Dancel said his office and the ATC launched the Project Facemask at the start of the enhanced community quarantine over Luzon last month, to help in the production of the needed facemasks for the frontliners in the midst of the COVID-19 threat.

Local seamstresses and tailors, dressmaking graduates and TESDA personnel offered their services to make facemasks for free.

There are now more than 50 volunteers making facemasks. TESDA and ATC provided supplies for the production of facemask while the provincial government provided at least six sewing machines for the volunteer sewers.

Several donors also donated various materials such as cloth to be used to produce washable facemasks and head caps.

The project has already produced almost 1,800 facemasks which were distributed to the different frontliners composed of health workers, uniformed personnel, barangay workers and other stakeholders including people in the lower and upper towns of Apayao thru the help of other volunteers.

Aside from the facemasks, TESDA and ATC also started baking breads and pastries for frontliners through TESDA graduates who volunteered their time and effort to bake.

The province of Apayao remains COVID-free thru  the strict implementation  of the ECQ. -- PIA CAR