In an effort to make the stay of detention prisoners productive, the Negros Oriental Detention & Rehabilitation Center, in cooperation with the Technical Education & Skills Development Authority, implemented a skills training program to make them busy while waiting for the outcome of their respective cases.
A total of 50 inmates have completed the 18-day skills training program for bread and pastries production, the assessment and evaluation of which was conducted Tuesday.
The evaluator, Edwin Sansilan of the technical vocational training institution rated them competent after the exam and found all of them knowledgeable already of the craft.
Sansilan disclosed that he was toying the idea if the provincial government can provide them with the necessary equipment and ingredients for baking so they will earn while under detention.
The Dumaguete Christian Technical School Inc., which is the service provider, is now in the process of submitting the list of the graduates to TESDA for the possible issuance of NC-2 certification.
NODRC provincial warden Franklin Culanag stressed the skills they have acquired while under detention would be very useful when they will be back to mainstream society as a source of income.
In fact, Culanag will be requesting for another set of trainees for metal welding NC-2 for funding by TESDA in line with his request for a catwalk around the perimeter of the provincial jail.
He said inmates who are enrolled in the program would do the actual welding activity for the proposed project to save on labor cost.
Culanag thanked the support of Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo for allowing the inmates to do livelihood activities inside the jail and to develop the skills they are inclined to while being detained. (Juancho Gallarde/PNA)
