MANILA — The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) will help rebuild areas affected by Typhoon Ompong by training residents to put up their destroyed houses and structures.
“The assistance will be through training and production, rebuilding of destroyed houses and structures,” TESDA Deputy Director General Avin Feliciano told the Philippine News Agency (PNA) on Wednesday.
Feliciano said no additional fund will be released for this move, since the assistance is through training.
“Ompong” made a landfall in Cagayan in the morning of Sept. 15, and left the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) in the evening.
Last Sunday, TESDA Secretary Guiling Mamondiong instructed TESDA regional directors to assess their areas and see what they could do to help.
Mamondiong’s instruction was to mobilize the agency’s human resources and whatever resources it can legally use. He also told them to provide him with daily reports regarding the assistance.
“The instruction was only for (the regional directors of) the affected areas,” Feliciano said, adding that conducting physical visits was also suggested to the directors.
TESDA has been assisting in the rebuilding efforts in typhoon-affected areas, as well as the war-torn Marawi City.
Earlier this year, TESDA received the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Award for its Project on Rehabilitation and Recovery from Typhoon Yolanda, recognizing the agency’s rebuilding efforts in areas hit by the torrential typhoon.
“Yolanda” (international name: Haiyan) battered the Visayas in 2013. (PNA)
