230 employees of MMDA get scholarships

Over 200 employees of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) were awarded on Friday with scholarships from the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority in an effort to provide its personnel with additional skills that can help augment their income.

The initial batch of 230 employees who were granted scholarships yesterday would take courses in baking, cookery, bartending and welding in five technical-vocational schools in the cities of Pasay and Makati.

In the coming months, MMDA chair Danilo Lim said that more scholarship grants would be issued to at least a thousand other employees of the agency as well as their relatives.

To ensure that the program would not interfere with their jobs, the scholars would attend their classes after work and on weekends.

During yesterday’s orientation, Lim urged the scholars to take the training seriously as it would help them have an additional source of income.

The scholars were selected based on the agency’s survey of interested personnel last year.—JOVIC YEE