Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson signed a scholarship agreement with 45 grantees of the Negrense CITE-AI Tec Scholarship, and partners in rites held in a hotel in Bacolod City March 4.
The provincial government has partnered with the CITE Technical Institute Inc. and the Agro-Industrial Technology and Enterprise Center (AI-TEC) to produce high-quality production technologists to match the needs of the country’s growing industries.
It also aims to address poverty among Negrense families, which is the primary goal of the Abanse Negrense Priority Development Agenda of Lacson and Vice Gov. Jeffrey Ferrer, a Capitol press release said.
AI-TEC is a project of the Foundations for People Development Inc., represented by its chairman, Roberto Montelibano, and executive director Jose Rene Gayo, while CITE Technical Institute Inc. was represented by Dariel Lauron.
Negros Occidental Scholarship Program head Karen Dinsay said this is a pioneering scholarship program which will provide opportunities to marginalized and out-of-school youth to get a certification under the dual training system of CITE Technical Institute in Cebu City.
The scholars will study for two months at the CITE Technical School and will be deployed to different companies in Cebu for 10 months.
The grantees are Alternative Learning System graduates, and senior/high school graduates or college undergraduates, who are 18-25 years old. ||
