THE TECHNICAL Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), as the lead agency of the Poverty Reduction, Livelihood, and Employment Cluster (PRLEC), on Monday led the groundbreaking ceremony for the Urban Community Agriculture Project in Barangay 668 in Ermita, Manila.
Residents of the barangay are expected to benefit from this project that will start on October 3, according to TESDA.
.Resident Badjao indigenous people (IP) will also be trained for five days for this project, it added.
"There is a Badjao community in Ermita and Malate area, according to the NCIP (National Commission on Indigenous Peoples)," Grande said.
The Southern Institute of Maritime Studies (SIMS) and the Association of Technical Schools of Manila, Inc. (ASTMI) lent the training venue.
"SIMS and ASTMI served a crucial role in this project to push through, as they lent the training venue. As we know, it is quite hard to look for a lot that could serve as a training venue for agriculture in an urban setting," TESDA Manila District Director Archie Grande told the Philippine News Agency.
Grande said the project will help the beneficiaries produce vegetables that they could serve on the table while battling the pandemic.
"We expect to help promote food security, especially in areas where there is not much space to grow vegetables," he added.
Meanwhile, the same type of project was already launched in Barangay Bagong Pag-asa in Quezon City, and Barangay Zone 19 in Maricaban, Pasay City. This will also be launched in the cities of Caloocan, Parañaque, and Marikina, TESDA said. (By Ma. Cristina Arayata)
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