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Friday, March 17, 2017

TESDA, Coca-Cola to give 40,000 scholarship for women in micro-business

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Here's another scholarship from Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA). But this time, for 40,000 women who own sari-sari stores and carinderias.

The scholarship will be given in partnership with Coca-Cola Philippines under Sari-Sari Store Training and Access to Resources (STAR) program.

According to TESDA, the objective of the program is to the uplift livelihood of women through micro-retail business.

business and life skills training

access to finance and financial services

access to merchandising support and business assets

Who is the target of scholarship?

Distressed women
Returning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs)
Wives of soldiers and policemen

The star program recognizes the significant role of women and the Cola-Cola company made a commitment to empowering 5 million women by 2020.

Filipino women, especially full-time homemakers with small children, often choose to put up sari-sari stores and carinderias to augment their household income as these small businesses are often home-based and can be managed on top of doing the chores and tending the kids.

If you are interested in the program, contact your provincial or regional TESDA Office.

Click this link for complete address and contact number of TESDA offices nationwide.

From: Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA)
Ref: Public Information Unit (PIU)
Tel. No. 8323781
TESDA, COKE TO GIVE 40,000 SCHOLARSHIPS FOR WOMEN IN MICRO BUSINESS ENTERPRISE

The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) and Coca-Cola Philippines are set to give some 40,000 scholarships to women this year who own sari-sari stores and carinderias nationwide as part of the Micro Business Enterprise program.

TESDA Director General, Secretary Guiling “Gene” Mamondiong said that the program dubbed Sari-Sari Store Training and Access to Resources (STAR) aims to uplift the women's livelihood via micro-retail business.

"The program is able to provide access to business skills and life training scholarships; access to business capital and assets; and access to peer mentoring support," according to the STAR Program Partnership of TESDA and Coca-Cola Philippines.

Of the 40,000 scholarships, the STAR program is eyeing the wives of policemen and soldiers to be part of the project. Also included were distressed women and returning OFW.

Last year, more than 83,000 women micro-retailers availed of the STAR Program in 46 cities and provinces. By 2020, TESDA and Coca-Cola hope to assist more than 200,000 women in the business program.

Also, more or less 5,000 sari-sari store and carinderia owners in Davao Region participated in the program dubbed “We Make Change Work for Women” as part of the 2017 Women’s Month Celebration held at the USEP Gym Obrero, Davao City yesterday (March 10).

Aside from TESDA and Coca-Cola, other groups who joined the celebration were the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Philippine Commission on Women (PCW), Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), National Reintegration Commission on OFWs (NCRO). Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship, Inc. (PCE-Go Negosyo), Tagum City Council of Women, Inc. (TCCWI), First Community Cooperative (FICCO) at Philippine Association of Stores and Carinderia Owners (PASCO-Davao City)
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