Starting on Monday, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) would provide livelihood training programs to Mayon evacuees to help them earn a living away from their homes. According to Tesda Director General Guiling Mamondiong, at least five training programs would be held at San Francisco Elementary School and Malilipot Elementary School, which had been turned into evacuation centers next week. Mamondiong said one of the programs would teach 25 evacuees how to make face masks, which would be distributed to fellow evacuees, policemen and soldiers deployed to the area. ADVERTISEMENT3,000 evacueesThere are currently 3,000 evacuees at the two schools, mostly from the villages of Calbayog, San Roque and Tugawe. Other training programs would be on manicure, pedicure, massage and bread-making which Tesda said could keep evacuees busy and earn their keep even if they were holed up in evacuation centers.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer January 27, 2018 23:26 UTC