February 18, 2018
The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) has said that it will give assistance to returning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from Kuwait through its free technical-vocational (Tech-Voc) courses.
TESDA Director General Guiling “Gene” Mamondiong also directed all regional, provincial, district directors and TTI administrators to give retraining assistance to returning OFWs from Kuwait who will be affected by the total deployment ban of OFWs to Kuwait starting Monday, February 19.
Exempted from the total ban are OFWs on vacation in the Philippines and will go back to Kuwait to finish their contract with their employers, OFWs who will return to Kuwait for the new contract with the same employer, and seafarers who will travel to Kuwait to join their principals.
The decision of the President for a total ban came following a series of alleged maltreatment cases against OFWs in Kuwait.
Based on Memorandum # 61, Mamondiong directed officials to prioritize the OFWs from Kuwait in their training programs being offered by the TESDA Technology Institutions.
Mamondiong also ordered the regional/provincial/district directors and TTIs to seek out and contact the returning OFWs in their respective areas, in coordination with the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration so that they could receive immediate assistance.
“The beneficiaries shall be entitled to the following: free training; free assessment; training support fund (TSF)," said Mamondiong.
The TSF provides food and transportation allowance worth P100 per training day.
Apart from this, the agency has created programs for displaced OFWs based on the 17-Point Reform and Development Agenda of TESDA under the Duterte administration.
Based on the December 2017 report, up to 2,216 OFWS and their dependents have availed of the assistance from TESDA.
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