Mt Prov TESDA gives baked goods to frontliners

SABANGAN, Mountain Province -- The TESDA Provincial Training Center here is providing food assistance to frontliners in the province to mitigate spread of COVID-19.

In a report by the PTC, it was learned that the center has already produced 2,513 baked goods since the implementation of the community quarantine.

               Engineer Eduardo Tamayao, the TESDA acting provincial director and Center administrator, said they initially intended to produce face masks. 

But since there was no technical-voc institution offering dressmaking or tailoring program in the capital town of Bontoc where the provincial office is located, the PTC instead baked baked goods with help of volunteers.

Of the 2,513 baked goods, 1,025 were nutribuns, 1,415 cookies, 58 loaves of pineapple bread and 15 loaves of cinnamon bread.

“These were distributed to the frontliners manning the checkpoint at barangay  Namatec, Busa, Napua, Capinitan, Camatagan, Poblacion, Losad, Data, Supang, Lower and Upper Tambingan, Bao-angan, Lagan, Pingad, in Sabangan, Mountain Province,” he said. 

“Baked goods were also distributed to the frontliners and undernourished children in Barangays Otucan Norte and Otucan Sur in Sabangan, and  Luis Hora Memorial Regional Hospital at Bauko town.”

Recent recipients of the baked goods were returning students from Baguio City  currently monitored by  health workers  at the Sabangan National High School campus. (PMTG/TESDA-CAR)