The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) has given free training scholarship assistance package to the family of slain overseas Filipino worker (OFW) Joanna Demafelis whose body was found in a freezer more than one year after it was reported missing in Kuwait.
This after President Rodrigo Duterte ordered TESDA Director General Gene Mamondiong to give assistance to the family of Joanna whose remains arrived in the country last Feb. 16.
Mamondiong said that the training scholarship assistance package will include free skills training, free competency assessment, free entrepreneurship training, training support fund and starter tool kits.
Florencio Sunico Jr.,TESDA regional director for Region 6, said that the beneficiaries of the program are Joanna’s siblings Rausten Mark Demafelis, Housekeeping NC ll; Rhozell Mae Demafelis, Cookery NC ll; Criselda Demafiles, Cookery NC lI. They will enrol at the Leon Ganzon Polytechnic College (LGPC) in June 2018 under the “Free TVET scholarship program”.
Also given assistance were Joie Demafelis, of PNR, Western Bicutan, Taguig City and Jonathan Demafelis, of Brgy. Lopez Jaena Extension, San Dionisio, Paranaque City. Both will take up course in Automotive Servicing NC ll or lll.
Sunico said that he met the parents of Joanna in their home in Brgy. Ferari, Sara, Iloilo last Feb. 21 and 22.
Also, TESDA Iloilo provincial director Gina Sophia Mondejar visited the parents of Joanna to offer her condolences and promised them of training assistance last Feb, 21.
On Feb, 22, Sunico, who was accompanied by Dr. Esther Babalo, administrator of LGPC, also offered their condolences to the family of Joanna and relayed to them the Training Scholarship Commitments from Secretary Mamondiong.
President Duterte went to the wake of Joanna in Sara town last Feb. 23 where he ordered TESDA to coordinate with the family of the OFW for the skills training assistance.
