The 220 members of the 16 th batch of the out-of-school trainees of the National Federation of Sugarcane Planters Sugar Workers Foundation yesterday completed their three-month technical and livelihood skills training at the NFSP Training Center in Brgy. Alijis, Bacolod City , NFSP said in a press release.

The graduates were trained for free highly-employable skills in welding, automotive technology, basic electricity, computer operations, and food processing.

Their daily stipend and lodging expenses were shouldered on a fifty-fifty basis by the NFSP Foundation and the sponsoring NFSP member planter association/cooperative.

Including those in the 16 th batch, the NFSP Foundation already have 3,000 beneficiaries from all sugar-producing provinces.

NFSP Foundation president Enrique Rojas said most of the past graduates are already gainfully employed, a number of them now working abroad, the press release said.

With the skills they learned from the training center, they have become productive members of society, he said in his welcome address.

Rojas said that, as president of the NFSP Foundation, he is proud that after five long years, they remain loyal in pursuing their mission to uplift the quality of lives of farm workers, their dependents, and out-of-school youth.

Bacolod City Mayor Evelio Leonardia, whose message was delivered by Councilor Greg Gasataya, lauded the NFSP Foundation for providing dependents of sugar workers with technical skills that can help improve their lives.

“We join you in your vision for the sugar workers,” Leonardia told the graduates, the press release added.*

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