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The need for families to become financially stable took center stage in a forum that tackled issues that Filipino families confront nowadays.

Speaking in a Kapihan Forum in observance of the National Family Week with the theme, “Tungo sa maginhawa, matatag, at panatag na pamilyang Pilipino,” local Family Week Celebration Chairperson George Gilvero Jr. said to achieve the vision to provide a comfortable life for every Filipino entails financial stability for families.

“Karon panahuna man gyud ang number one ayawan sa pamilya is money. Ug wa kay money, both husband and wife sige ma-stress especially if duna pod ka estudyante, samot gyud ka-stress (The number one cause of argument in the family is money. The husband and wife get stressed if they don’t have money especially if they have children to send to school),” Gilvero said.

Gilvero also pointed out that families who are financially burdened tend to borrow money from multiple sources to secure their needs but this only makes them buried in debt.

In addition to this, Pastor Francisco Abella of the First Evangelical Church disclosed that the problem on unemployment has been a primary reason why families break up.

“Unemployment problem is the number 1 cause of broken family. Nahisgotan ngano naguba ang pamilya? Tungod sa unemployment. Ngano modagan sila sa droga? Mamaligya na lang or mangawat na lang because of unemployment (We are discussing the cause of family break-ups. It’s because of unemployment. Family members turn to selling drugs or stealing because of unemployment),” Abella explained.

Gilvero noted that this issue is a challenge to the community, but he acknowledged that the government has undertaken several measures to address this.

“Daghan programa sa gobyerno especially nia ang atong Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA). Usa pod ni sila sa makahatag ug kaginhawaan through livelihood. Ihatag man gani ron sa gobyerno ang 4Ps (The government has many programs on this. TESDA is here and it has programs that can help attain comfortable living through livelihood. The government even provide 4Ps),” Gilverio added.

TESDA-Negros Oriental Staff Jecila Ocariza, who was also in the forum, announced some of agency’s scholarship programs on livelihood and skills training education as a response to Pres. Rodrigo Duterte’s socio-economic agenda.

“We are thankful that we are able to help sa atoang mga kaigsoonan (to our brethren) who need most of the skills training for livelihood or employment or self-employment. TESDA is offering different scholarship program. This is one of the agency’s responses to the 10 socio-economic agenda of the President (particularly) in livelihood program,” Ocariza said.

Ocariza elaborated the four scholarship programs of TESDA during the forum, namely: Private Education Student Financial Assistance (PESFA), Training for Work Scholarship (TWSP), Special Training for Employment Program (STEP), and the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act (UAQTEA).

In support to the campaign on empowering families through livelihood, TESDA Provincial Administrative Officer Joshua Delos Reyes shared that their agency prioritizes drug dependents under the endorsement of the Department of Health (DOH), persons deprived of liberty (or persons in jail), rebel returnees, and solo parents or children from broken families as beneficiaries of their scholarship programs.

“The TESDA or the government is trying unsa ang matabang para lig-onon ang atong pamilya (TESDA or the government is really trying and continuously for ways to empower the family),” Delos Reyes disclosed during the Kapihan.

Abella considers this a welcome development and underscores that all efforts must be undertaken to prevent the break-up of families.

Apart from the economic issues, other common concerns cited include lack of spiritual values in the family, lack of time with spent with other family members stressing that family members spend more time with their gadgets than with each other, drug and other substance abuse.

Philippine Mental Health Association (PMHA) Negros Oriental Executive Director Jude Mae Piñero said there are a lot of issues surrounding Filipino families nowadays and it is important that family members remain resilient in facing these issues.

“The definition of family evolved through time but the importance of it remains. A healthy family has each other backs. What’s more important is how we surpass and how resilient we are considering the issues about divorce, those that pertain to emotional and mental problem. The kind of relationship we have with each other is very important,” Piñero said. (ral/PIA7-Negros Oriental)

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