Dole trains OFWs in baking

A GOVERNMENT agency has recently given several distressed and displaced Overseas Filipino Workers with skills training in the baking business to start anew.

The Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) National Reintegration Center for OFWs (NRCO) Davao Region equipped 15 undocumented and distressed OFWs with the fundamentals of baking and cake decorating recently at Dole 11 Activity Hall.

Aside from cake production, the OFWs were also trained in the pricing scheme, selling strategies, and business management. Each of them was also given with baking equipment such as oven, mixer, rolling pins and some ingredients among others.

Displaced from Malaysia, 55-year-old Elizabeth Po, a resident of Riverside, Calinan, Davao said she was thankful of the skills training.

“It is a great opportunity for me because I will be able to continuously support the needs my family by putting up a business,” she said.

Po experienced a lot of physical abuse from her employers and she was only able to escape by getting out from the window and rappelling down from the building.

Noraina dela Cruz, 31, from Darong, Sta. Cruz who was a household service worker repatriated from Jeddah said she was very fortunate to avail the training.

“I am really thankful for this training because it gave me hope to start again. I will make this business grow,” she said. (DOLENRCO XI)