Youth

Alternatives to migration: Decent Jobs for Filipino Youth, a Millennium Development Goal Achievement Fund joint Programme—this is what was revealed through the leadership of the Development of Labor and Employment with the different agencies under it, International Labor Organization on Migration, United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund, and the UN Fund for Population Activities as a…

An August 12, 2011 press release by the Department of Labor and Employment The Department of Labor and Employment, through the Bureau of Workers with Special Concerns, the Institute for Labor Studies, and Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, yesterday joined hands with the International Labor Organization, International Organization for Migration, United Nations Children’s Fund,…

DAGUPAN CITY, August 12 (PIA) — Almost 6,000 youths in the country expressed their views on issues and concerns confronting them in the latest National Youth Assessment Study presented by the National Youth Commission (NYC).

MANILA, Philippines — More than 600 youths were awarded with scholarships on Tuesday by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) for free training as a new batch of scholars.

BUTUAN CITY, July 21 (PIA) –- About 60 representatives from government line agencies, non-government organizations, Pag-Asa Youth Association of the Philippines (PYAP), business sector, academe, religious, youth-serving organizations and among other youth sectors of the region participated in the Regional Consultation on the Philippine Youth Development Plan (PYDP) 2011-2016 in Caraga spearheaded by the National…

The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) has joined hands with Jollibee, the country’s biggest and first global fast food chain, to assist disadvantaged Filipino youth become more employable, productive members of society. Last week, Department of Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz signed a memorandum of agreement (MoA) with the Jollibee Foods Corporation on…

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MANILA, Philippines – A research group yesterday said that the youth sector, apart from sex workers and migrant workers, is also considered as “high risk” to the infection of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The study “Philippine Education Sectors’ Response to HIV, Drugs and Sexuality” showed that the HIV cases in the country continued to climb,…

TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, June 23(PIA) – The regional office of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with three private partners in Eastern Visayas in the implementation of the different poverty-alleviation programs, projects and activities of the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDSS).

Last week I was pleasantly surprised to find that a friend, Sarah Bulalacao Grutas, is now social media director for the National Youth Commission. A young person herself, Sarah is a cum laude graduate of the University of the Philippines, with a Creative Writing degree from the UP’s College of Arts and Letters.

Young, single, successful, and gay. Humphrey Gorriceta, Jr. was enjoying life. Weekends would not pass without partying at bars, meeting new friends, and surrendering to his libido whenever and wherever it was possible.

THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on Friday expressed concern over the alarming increase in the number of minors being involved in illegal drug activities in the country.

Ronald barely finished his first year in high school three years ago. Today, he is a tambay, too young to be the neighborhood’s siga, but most likely on his way to becoming one. While still reverent to the older tambays, he is building his own following of younger kids, many also school drop-outs.

MANILA, Philippines – Despite the all-out efforts to address the inequities in the well-being of the Filipino youth, health services and support have yet to make significant headway.

MANILA, Philippines – Sen. Loren Legarda said the other day that she will look into the possibility of using part of the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) Fund as source of finances for the country’s climate change adaptation programs and projects.

MANILA, Philippines — Quezon City have a chance to return to school after the city government and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) signed an agreement to train them.

MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang said yesterday that college students who are seeking on-the-job training (OJT) in government offices this summer vacation may avail of the internship programs in the Executive Branch that will help gain the youth an experience of working in the government.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education on Monday said it is opening up a summer jobs program for poor but deserving students.

SHE SHOULD have been staying home, doing her school assignments, watching TV or checking her Facebook account for it was a Saturday, but 16-year-old Dana Algabre did not mind not being able to do those things.

MANILA, Philippines – Investing in the world’s 1.2 billion adolescents aged 10 to 19 now can break entrenched cycles of poverty and inequity, and reduce the risk of HIV in the Philippines.

Philippines – Scholarship grants and job opportunities tied to government’s technical vocation program have helped keep the literacy and employment percentage in Cavite on the highest level, provincial officials said.

Three hundred female out of school youth from Cebu were granted Information and Communications Technology (ICT) vocational training in a deal signed between Cebu Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA), the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) and Informatics Philippines.

VALENZUELA CITY, Jan.17 (PIA) – To foster the development of the out-of-school and disadvantaged youth, the City Social welfare and Development Office (CSWDO) revives the Pagasa Youth Association of the Philippines (PYAP)- Valenzuela City chapter.

TUBLAY, Benguet, Philippines — Today’s youth must venture on technical-vocational (tech-voc) courses to help them land high-paying local and overseas employment, Rep. Ronald M. Cosalan said here recently.

THE Catholic Church admitted Sunday that it has abandoned the youth. Legazpi diocese Bishop Joel Baylon, the chairman of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) Commission on Youth, made the admission during the formal launching on Sunday of the “Year of the Youth” for 2011. “Many of them feel abandoned by the institutions…

MANILA, Philippines – President Aquino recognized the winners of the 8th Search for the Ten Accomplished Youth Organizations (TAYO) in ceremonies at the Heroes Hall in Malacañang recently.

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol — The military command here warned the youth from the lure of communists, as they alleged remnants of the rebel groups are trying to gain back its stronghold in the province.

Surigao City (December 9) — The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) and the Workers Development Foundation Inc. (WDFI) with assistance from the International Trade Union Confederation-Asia Pacific (ITUC-AP) through the ITUC-AP Youth Committee will hold a workshop on “Advancing Decent Work through the Global Jobs Pact and the Social Protection Floor” on Dec.…

MANILA, Philippines—Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz on Monday advised would-be students, students, and graduates to consider taking up fisheries and agricultural courses or skills training and upgrading in these fields because job opportunities in these sectors abound and are “in-demand from 2011 and onward.”

The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) is working closely with the United Nations’s International Labor Organization to reduce, if not eliminate, youth unemployment in the Philippines within six years.