20 Youths Are TDI-Universal Motors Scholars

The TDI-UMC scholars at the Makati Shangri-la with Anna Mae Labanero,
CCT Training and Development Institute manager (second from right),
and Froi Parado (right), general manager of the Covenant Community Service Cooperative.

God has blessed 20 out-of-school youths with a chance for a brighter future through scholarships at CCT's Training and Development Institute-Magdalena Campus.  They received vocational scholarships from the Universal Motors Corporation (UMC) under its Ur Van, Ur Business Program run in partnership with CCT.

The scholars, from Iloilo, Bacolod, North Cotabato, Saranggani, Laguna, and Quezon City, will join 80 other young men and women who will compose the third batch of students at Magdalena. Classes start in April and end in July. The scholarships cover food, board, and tuition for courses such as electrical installation and maintenance, plumbing, and carpentry.

CCT's Covenant Community Service Cooperative will assist the students with job placement after they graduate.

UMC,  has supported CCT's micro-finance program through its UR Van, UR Business program since 2006.

This is the first time it has awarded scholarships to students through any CCT program. UMC is the country's largest and oldest 100% Filipino-owned assembler and distributor of Nissan light commercial vehicles.



Each of the scholars received a certificate
like this one during a program hosted by
 Universal Motors Corporation at the
Makati Shangri-la on March 10, 2011.

The pictures below show each new scholar with Elizabeth Lee, UMC chief operating officer (in gold blazer); a representative of the Nissan branch or dealer sponsoring the young man's scholarship; and Anna Mae Labanero of CTDI. 

Kim Babasan

Merson Calma

Wilson Dacuycoy

Omar Almed Armia

Jervin Lubogin



Carlito Prodigo

Danilo Nonato

Ken Gaunce

Michel Jay Lopez

Ryan Nonod

Ian Bolivar

John Patrick Grievalde

Boyet Casaquit and Francis Llema

Ryan Bon Ravie

Ryan Rabi, personal scholar of Elizabeth Lee, shares his testimony.

UMC executives, dealers, and scholars.





Bayanihan at the Magdalena Campus

 

Ruth Callanta, CCT president, and head office staff, friends and children joined AMG Skilled Hands College scholars, Alternative Learning System students, and Kaibigans (former street dwellers) for a day of bayanihan work at the CCT Training and Development Institute (CTDI) - Magdalena campus shortly  before its opening in August last year. (Bayanihan is based on a Filipino tradition from long ago when neighbors would help a relocating family by hoisting that family's bamboo hut on their shoulders and moving it to its new location. Today the word has come to mean the spirit of communal unity, cooperation and volunteerism.)  The bayanihan workers cleared away construction debris, planted saplings and perennials, washed windows and walls, and painted bed frames to help ready the campus for its first batch of students.

Ruth Callanta briefs volunteers on work areas and activities.

AMG Skilled Hands Technological College students (CCT scholars)

Ana Mae Labanero, manager, CTDI

Rose Salvador, accountant, Kaibigan Ministry

An Alternative Learning System student

Eunice,daughter of Luz Saludo,
 HR officer, Kaibigan Ministry

Cherry Espino, peer servant, research and development unit. 

Monchito Callanta

Alvin Leo Bonjoc, accountant, CTDI

Cynthia Frane, administrative assistant

Volunteers workers share reflections on doing bayanihan
 work at the end of a fruitful day.

Magdalena Campus

The CCT TDI Magdalena Campus is a vocational and technical school located in Laguna, The Philippines. Opened in August 2010, it is run in partnership between CCT’s Training and Development Institute and the AMG Skilled Hands Technological College. 

80 male students between the ages of 18 and 25, all sons of CCT community partners (micro-finance clients) and Kaibigan (homeless men and women who are undertaking rehabilitation with CCT), are training to become electricians, carpenters, builders, plumbers, stone masons and welders. Computing and native enterprises such as local embroidery will also be added soon. 

Carpentry, masonry, electrical installation, welding and plumbing courses last three months and construction training one year.

CCT originally sent its students to AMG’s technical school in Bulucan Province, but Magdalena was designed to meet the special needs of the poor and unemployed; many of whom have not finished high school.

The students live in two dormitories and learn their trade in a separate workshop building.

Future buildings planned include a chapel, administration building, further staff accommodation, multi-purpose hall, swimming pool and a soccer field.

Center For Community Transformation (CCT)

The Center for Community Transformation (CCT) is a non-profit, faith-based organization that believes than an organized Christian response against poverty and social injustice is needed. 

This is carried out through the fusion of social development initiatives, including microfinance, and evangelical mission in a uniquely Filipino context. It serves urban and rural poor communities throughout the Philippines, in pursuit of its desire to see changed lives, strong families and transformed communities.

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