DOLE 6 launches Kabataan ITO project
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) 6 recently launched its Kabataan ITO (Youth-Information Technology Opportunities) or K ITO project in the provinces of Aklan, Antique and Negros Occidental
A total of 54 unemployed and underemployed IT-literate out-of-school youths (OSYs) were hired as volunteer youth-mentors such as 15 in Aklan, 17 in Antique, and 22 in Negros Occidental.
During the launching, some 50 out-of-school and other disadvantaged youths and informal sector workers like trisikad and tricycle drivers, and ambulant vendors availed of the free mentoring.
The youth mentors use a module consists of 4 lessons such as familiarizing the computer hardware, operating the computer and operating the Word Processing Application Using MS Word, as the preparatory lessons, and using the internet for Searching and Communication, as the final lesson.
They would render part-time service mentoring a minimum of 2 participants in each session, which runs for about 22 hours per session and receive a modest stipend of P25 per mentoring hour.
The K-ITO corners are located at the premises of its partners such as QA Computer Learning Center in Kalibo, Aklan and Advance Central College in San Jose, Antique. In Negros Occidental, K-ITO corners are situated in Bacolod City Public Employment Service Office (PESO) at the New Government Center, and Barangay Centers of Bgy. Handumanan, Bgy. Estefania and Bgy. Sum-ag, Bacolod City, and DOLE Negros Occidental Provincial Office, Cottage Road, Bacolod City.
Meanwhile, the DOLE Iloilo Provincial Office will launch the project on Wednesday, October 28, at 9:30 AM at the DOLE Regional Office, Commission Civil St., Jaro, this City. It is expected to benefit about 20 IT-literate youths.
The Kabataan ITO is an information technology project aimed at mobilizing computer-literate unemployed and underemployed youths to mentor and provide internet and computer-based technical assistance to out-of-school and other disadvantaged youths, informal sector workers, persons with disabilities, and dependents of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), who want to learn the basics of computer operation.
