Villanueva to Lapeña: Tesda’s 2022 budget crucial in addressing joblessness

Senator Joel Villanueva underscored the pivotal role of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) in the government’s efforts to get millions of unemployed Filipinos back to work after suffering job loss during the pandemic.

The chair of the Senate labor committee said Tesda’s proposed P14.5-billion budget for next year was crucial in providing more scholarship grants to people in search of better lives, especially the youth who are entering the Philippine job market every year.

“For the most part of this hearing, we talked about data and numbers, which are really very abstract. But I invite you to look into the positive impact of Tesda on each and every graduate who’s able to find a job,” said Villanueva.

“In the same manner that I invite you to look at the lost opportunities for every Filipino who missed tech-voc training and employment opportunities due to COVID restrictions and underutilization of scholarship funds,” he said.

“It bears repeating that Tesda will be the backbone of our economic recovery. You are the ‘heart’ of the National Employment Recovery Strategy or NERS which needs all the support it can get,” continued Villanueva.

“I will be the first to help you in the tech-voc sector,” he said.

Villanueva reminded Tesda director general Isidro Lapeña about the importance of the agency’s budget next year because “this is the budget to get millions of Filipinos back on their feet after suffering job loss during the pandemic.”

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