THE Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) is set to launch a new training program that seeks to provide free training on technical vocational (tech-voc) courses in the poorest regions by next year.

Tesda director general Joel Villanueva said that the agency is planning to allocate the additional funds from the lawmakers’ Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or pork barrel to help indigent youths from the low-income communities get a free training on tech-voc so that they would find a job after graduation.

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