STARTER KITS FROM GOV'T. Two aspiring entrepreneurs who recently joined an online entrepreneurship bootcamp by DTI have received livelihood starter kits from the agency. Chancel Dorothy Franciso (second from left) and Carla Dalagan (second from right) received PHP6,000 worth of livelihood starter kits each after completing the “3A Bootcamp: Accept, Adapt and Act” program by the DTI Philippine Trade Training Center in partnership with the Angelpreneurs and LEADMORE. (Photo courtesy of DTI-Cebu)
CEBU CITY – Two aspiring entrepreneurs have received PHP6,000 worth of livelihood starter kits each from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)-Cebu after graduating from the “3A Bootcamp: Accept, Adapt and Act” program of the DTI Philippine Trade Training Center in partnership with the Angelpreneurs and LEADMORE.
One of them, Chancel Dorothy Franciso, graduated from college with a Pharmacy degree a week before the lockdown was implemented in March 2020. During the pandemic, she waited with uncertainties for opportunities, including the resumption of board examinations.
The second beneficiary, Carla Dalagan, was displaced from working in a food franchise company and was unemployed for 10 months.
Both had applied for the unique virtual training program by DTI.
The 3A Bootcamp is intended for working students, housewives, displaced employees and teachers, and overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who have recently returned from abroad and interested in starting a business.
This will help them find opportunities based on their skills so they can re-invent themselves in the new normal, according to DTI-Cebu.
The learning sessions were designed with practical approach and delivered by actual business practitioners.
Dalagan has planned to start an ice candy business, with fresh milk as main ingredient.
Francisco, on the other hand, is poised to start producing sugar hair removal wax.
“This boot camp and the mentors have helped me augment the knowledge I have thru the few business units I had in pharmacy school. The mentors presented us the bird’s eye view of what to expect in entrepreneurship,” she said in a video on Friday.
Francisco and Dalagan are among the 31 qualified scholars out of almost 80 participants from the country qualified for the completion of the program. The mentoring program included seven sessions from January to February 2021.
Both received a certification and livelihood starter kits from DTI-Cebu.
“This program primarily aims to instill a resilient mindset that can accept and adapt to the new normal and pivot out of unemployment, act with an entrepreneurial mindset, and be able to set-up a business. Both of them are able to do that,” DTI-Cebu provincial director Esperanza Melgar said on Friday.
DTI-Cebu, through its Negosyo Centers, provides the beneficiaries with entrepreneurship development seminars, facilitate business name and Barangay Micro Business Enterprise (BMBE) registrations, and assists them in other appropriate business development services to improve their enterprises. (PNA)
