Some 19 Pantawid Pamilya partner-beneficiaries in Naga City, Cebu recently graduated from Cebu Technological University’s dress making skills training.

Dressmaking is only one of the various livelihood skills training conducted by the Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office VII (DSWD-7) through the Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP).

During the graduation rites, the partner-beneficiaries also received their own sewing machines installed with auto machine.

They were also given complete sets of sewing materials.

The partner-beneficiaries formally organized into an association and is expected to fully operate as garment enterprise once they get the permit to operate.

SLP is a community-based capacity building program that aims to increases the economic opportunities of the families through the different modalities that it offers such as skills training, seed capital fund, pre-employment assistance fund, and the cash for building livelihood assets.

This livelihood skills training is in partnership with the Cebu Technological University (CTU).

Other livelihood skills training identified by the partner-beneficiaries are housekeeping, furniture making, technical drafting, basic electricity and building wiring, massage therapy licensure course, food processing, plumbing and commercial cooking. ###

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