Villanueva resurrects ‘Tesdaman’ as he announces reelection bid

Senator Joel Villanueva resurrected his moniker as “Tesdaman” as he announced his reelection bid on Saturday.

The senator, who used to head Tesda under the Aquino administration, said the country’s “agility to pivot to the post-pandemic economy” will depend largely on how it can train a labor force that could meet the demands of the “new world of work,”

Speaking at the launch of the Tulong Trabaho Scholarship Program, Villanueva told over 500 scholars that retooling and upskilling are the ways to go to become employable as the country recovers from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic

“There is no going back to the way things were before the pandemic,” said the chairman of the Senate labor committee.

“Our economy is undergoing retooling that requires workers who have been reskilled,” he said.

“Trabaho ang lagi nating trabaho. Ito po ang misyon natin noon, ngayon, at sa hinaharap,” continued Villanueva.

“Sa ngalan po ng pangarap ng mga kabataang Pilipino, ipagpapatuloy po natin ang misyon ni Tesdaman sa Senado para sa Trabaho, Edukasyon, Serbisyo, Dignidad at Asenso ng bawat Pilipino,” Villanueva said, specifying his vision of creating and sustaining jobs.

Fortunately, the country had success in training manpower en masse “when 20 million workers were trained by Tesda during the past decade.”

He called on the government “to tap the Tesda way” in preparing the workforce that a changed economy requires.

“Hindi po ba sa gera, naghahanda tayo sa pamamagitan ng pagsasanay ng mga sundalo? Ganun din ang gawin natin ngayon. I-train ang mga manggagawa para sa mga trabahong magbabangon sa ating ekonomiya,” he said.

He challenged presidential candidates “to install technical-vocational education as a major plank in their platform.”

He said the presence of a large trained tech-voc pool will enable the “country to hit the ground running in getting the country back on its feet.”

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