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155 ex-MILF members in DavOr completes TESDA course


DAVAO ORIENTAL, Nov. 8 (PIA) – More than a hundred former combatants of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in the Province of Davao Oriental graduated from the short courses in skills training of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA). 


The graduation ceremony was held at Honey’s Hotel in Mati City on November 4, 2021.

As a manifestation of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), the final peace agreement signed between the government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front on March 27, 2014, 155 former members of the MILF surrendered in the Province of Davao Oriental and availed of the financial and livelihood assistance projects of the various government agencies. One of those projects is the skills training offered by TESDA.

The former MILF members received their completion certificates from TESDA represented by Provincial Director Leah D. Braga.

Few of the training offered was driving, bread and pastry production courses, electrical installation and maintenance, entrepreneurship, carpentry, motorcycle/small engine repair, cookery, dressmaking/tailoring, automotive servicing, and welding.  

Mr. Ednar G. Dayanghirang, the Provincial Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (PTF-ELAC) Chairman and representative of Davao Oriental to the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP), highlighted the contribution of TESDA's projects to the implementation of peace and development agenda in the province.

He also emphasized that the Provincial Government of Davao Oriental remains loyal to the provisions of the CAB.

“The provincial government, through its different participating line agencies remains committed to delivering what has been agreed upon under the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro,” his statement reads. (PIA XI Davao del Norte/jmda/Ezri M. Coda, Jr. with reports from PIO Davao Oriental)





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