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PGMA orders TESDA to include Tahanang Walang Hagdanan in P4-billion scholarship grants
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2008
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ordered today the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) to include the Tahanang Walang Hagdanan (TWH) among institutions enjoying scholarship grants so that the TWH’s physically-disabled students could avail themselves of the Arroyo administration’s P4-billion fund for vocational trainings.
Gracing the TWH’s 35th anniversary celebration at a hotel along Roxas Blvd. in Manila, President Arroyo also called on businesses engaged in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to hire more persons with disabilities (PWDs).
The President congratulated the TWH’s “Great Pillars” -- Sr. Valeriana Baertz (founder) and Engr. Felix Gonzales (TWH president for 19 years) -- for the institution’s “35 years of fruitful service” as a “a home that gives shelter, comfort and care.”
“That’s a long time… despite the rough times… within its walls,” enthused the President who pointed out that the TWH is celebrating its significant milestone in the middle of the Philippine Decade for Persons with Disabilities – 2003-2012.
President Arroyo also lauded the TWH’s outstanding graduates, most of whom are women. She related that she had PWDs among her staff when she was still Vice President, and that she later brought them along with her to Malacanang when she became President.
The President – who cited Republic Act No. 9442 which calls on Philippine society to regard PWDs with due respect – also relayed her happiness at seeing more PWDs enjoying more discounts in drugstores and public transports, with ramps built for them along sidewalks, and seats reserved for them together with the elderly.
The President also advised the TWH to explore with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the TESDA more scholarship and vocational training grants that it could avail of via the two government agencies.
Of the P4-billion vocational training fund, some P350 million has been allotted for skills training for call centers and business processing and outsourcing (BPO) enterprises and locators.
The President concluded her speech by committing that “government shall continue to invest in the Filipino, with close to P200 billion so far invested in human capital development so that every Filipino could “live a purposeful life.”
TWH president Manuel Agcaoili, himself a PWD, thanked the President for gracing the “very significant occasion” where the TWH regaled the President with a power-point presentation about TWH’s achievements in its mandate to shelter disabled persons and make them productive members of society.
The President, together with Lovely Romulo, chair of the National Commission for the Welfare of Disabled Persons (NCWDP), witnessed the awarding of the TWH’s Great Pillars and the following successful graduates: Hilaria Pasno, Amado Dulnuan, Irene Angiwan, Carmen Zubiaga and Nelia Ponce.
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