AS migration continues to be the way out for Filipinos seeking for a better life for their families, Spain has earmarked $6 million or P270 million for a project designed to harness the skills of the Filipino youth and make them be of service to the Philippines rather than abroad.
The three-year program, titled Alternatives to Migration: Decent Jobs for Filipino Youth, is designed to improve policy coherence and implementation on youth, employment and migration and increased access to decent work for young men and women.
“The youth should have sources of work so that they could stay where there are most needed and help in their country’s development,” Spanish Ambassador to the Philippines Luis Arias said during the program’s launch held at the Mandarin Hotel in Makati City.
At least 10,000 poor and vulnerable young men and women ages 15 to 24 years old from Masbate, Antique, Agusan del Sur and Maguindanao are expected to benefit from the project.
Labor Secretary Marianito Roque, for his part, noted that such initiative will ”also reduce failures of migration, since we found out that those migrant workers who end up in bad situation in the Middle East are household service workers from the said regions.” –Llanesca T. Panti, Manila Times
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International Equal Pay Day
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more than other cost items.
For widespread, practical equality!”
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October –
Monthly Observances:
Industry and Commerce Safety Month
National Statistics Month
Local Government Month
Consumer Welfare Month
Cooperative Month
National Quality and Productivity Improvement Month
National Health and Wellness Tourism Month
National Indigenous Peoples Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 1: Elderly Filipino Week
Week 2: National Health Education Week
Local Government Week
National Mental Health Week
October 17-23:
National Week for Overcoming Extreme Poverty
October 18 – 24:
United Nations Week
Last Week:
Nurses’ Week
Consumers’ Protection Week
Week of the 4th Sunday:
Barrio Farmers’ Week
Daily Observances:
First Monday (Oct 4): Universal Children’s Day i
n the Philippines
Oct 5: National Teachers’ Day
Oct 10: Local Government Day
Third Thursday (Oct 14): Conflict Resolution Day
Oct 21: Tenants’ Emancipation day
Oct 24: United Nations Day
Oct 29: National Indigenous People’s Thanksgiving Day
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