THE Cagayan de Oro Chamber of Commerce and Industry Foundation Inc. (OroChamber) will be holding livelihood trainings for women in the villages on September 27 at the Barangay Nazareth Hall.
The whole-day activity, which would start at 8 a.m., will be attended by women beneficiaries from Barangays Camaman-an, Gusa and Nazareth.
“The rise in the prices of basic commodities is already over-stretching the purchasing power of every Filipino hence there is a need to enhance the livelihood capability of every family,” said OroChamber Vice President for Agriculture, Mining and Fishery Sector Atty. Zoilo Antonio Velez.
Velez said the Chamber thought of helping augment the income of target families in the city to cope with the steady increase of the prices of basic goods by giving them additional livelihood opportunities.
The training intervention, which is lodged in the Chamber’s Ice on Milk Project, is supported by Representative Maximo Rodriguez of AbaMin party-list, BusinessWeek, National Dairy Authority Region X, Magnum Radio, Parasat Cable, Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro, Mindanao Current and Land O’ Lakes.
During the training, the participants will be taught how to make white cheese, yema and lactoflan, which they can readily sell and earn extra income in the process.
The trainers are experts from NDA-Northern Mindanao and the Northern Mindanao Federation of Dairy Cooperatives.
OroChamber president Tony Uy expects a good number of women-participants during the BIMP-EAGA Trade Fair cum Oro Best Expo 2011 in October as the livelihood session will be staged back-to-back the Dairy Forum.
The October 20 event will also train the next batch of trainees from Puntod and other barangays on relevant milk processing techniques. (PR)
Published in the Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro newspaper
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