TO speed up its delivery of service to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) coming back to the country amid the novel coronavirus disease 2019 crisis, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) now allows them to register online to avail of the agency’s free skills training.
Through its mobile application, the reptriates’ virtual enlistment was first introduced during Tesda Secretary Isidro Lapeña’s recent consultation with the OFWs around the world early this month.
According to him, they are intensifying their reintegration program for returning and former OFWs. This latest development, dubbed “Tesda Abot Lahat Ang OFWs,” will provide them with more accessibility to the services that the agency can provide.
“Through this online registration, we can determine the preferred skills training of our returning OFWs to match their employment or self-employment needs, and we can also extend the services to them while we are facing this pandemic,” he said.
OFWs can register online via the Tesda app which can be downloaded on both the Google Play Store and App Store for free.
They will just have to fill out an online form with their personal and professional information, location on their return to the country, and the skills training they need.
Lapeña, likewise, ordered the agency’s regional directors to ensure that Tesda personnel are present and available in the Tesda Malasakit Helpdesks located at the airports to attend to arriving OFWs.