Personnel of the Bureau of Fire Protection assist Paula Alexis Fernando of the D’ Planners Training Center in the distribution to frontliners of vegetables planted andharvested by TESDA scholars. Photo courtesy of TESDA–Bataan
BALANGA CITY — Scholars of the TechnicalEducation Skills and Development Authority in Bataan along with some farmers in this province have donated vegetables and fruits to frontliners fighting the war against the coronavirus disease.
Julie Ann Banganan, TESDA–Bataan provincial director, on Tuesday announced that the scholars are students of D’ Planners Training Center, Inc., a registered agricultural institution of their agency in Dinalupihan town.
“Agricultural crops such as fruits and vegetables are definitely healthy alternatives to the usual food packs given by our government and volunteers in this time of crisis brought by Covid-19,” she said.
Paula Alexis Fernando, assistant school administrator of the D’ Planners, said that they have been donating vegetables and fruits to frontliners since the enhanced community quarantine in Bataan started.
She said that 150 kilograms of corns and 100 kg. of string beans that were provided to frontliners were grown and harvested by the scholars trained in Agricultural Crops Production NC II and NC III under the Training for Work Scholarship Program and Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Program.
Fernando added that farmers who were trained under the Kabalikat sa Kabuhayan program of the SM Foundation have planted, harvested and donated 200kg. of patola, 210 kg. of eggplants, 60 kg. of ampalaya, 55 kg. of green chili, and 580 kg. ofcucumber to frontliners in Dinalupihan.
The Department of Agriculture and Bureau of FireProtection in Dinalupihan helped them in the distribution of vegetables and mango to the emergency hospital, marshals, churches, garbage collectors, and other frontliners in Dinalupihan.
Fernando said that families and relatives of the scholars and KSK farmers also benefitted with their own share of the vegetables and other harvests.
Meanwhile, Sierra Flores of TESDA–Bataan said employees and trainors of their provincial training center in Orion town, led by officer-in-charge Aida Estacio, prepared 150 packs of pansit palabok, 100 pieces of puto, and 50 bottles of mineral water.
These were distributed to the Orion Rural Health Unit, marshals, street sweepers and 13 police and barangay checkpoints in Orion, Flores said.
