Participants in Transformative Economic Empowerment (TEE),
an international training session for micro finance workers, visited the
Magdalena campus of the Training and Development Institute (TDI) of the Center
for Community Transformation (CCT) to get an overview and feel of CCT’s
ministry among out-of-school youth and unemployed or underemployed males. TEE is a joint activity of CCT and the
Ka-Partner network, a consortium of US-based organizations ministering to the
poor.
The TDI campus in
Magdalena, Laguna offers a two-year vocational / technical course called
Building Construction and Maintenance with competencies in electrical
installation and maintenance, masonry, rough carpentry, and plumbing. It
is also a boarding school for a second set of students – male, former street
dwellers between the ages of 10 and 19. (The boarding school for former
street dwellers is being overseen by the Visions of Hope Foundation, which,
along with TDI, is a member of the CCT Group of Ministries.)
Ruth Callanta, CCT founder and president, said the training
session allows the sharing of CCT’s best practices and stories,
benefiting the poor of other nations. The TEE attendees were from
Sri Lanka, Peru, India, Moldova, Zambia, Kenya, Thailand, Uganda, and
the US. The main theme of this gathering was leadership and vision, and
spiritual integration in micro finance. Speakers included CCT Chairman
Bertram Lim, Ruth Callanta, and social anthropologists Dr. Melba Maggay
and Dr. Miriam Adeney.
The founding members of the Ka Partner network are
endPoverty, Five Talents, Hope International, and Peer Servants.
After viewing a presentation about programs and services
offered at the campus, listening to the testimony of one of the students,
and touring the buildings, many of the guests enjoyed some shooting practice
with members of the campus soccer team.
The main venue of the training session was the Tagaytay
Retreat and Training Center in Tagaytay City.
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