KORONADAL CITY — Government security forces are employed to bring light to some 2,000 families in impoverished far-flung villages of the Soccsksargen region who continue to grope in the dark at night.
Rafael Abrogar II, regional director of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), said the agency trained several members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) for its Project Tala or “TESDA Alay ay Liwanag at Asenso” which seeks to install solar panel systems in off-grid remote villages in the region.
TESDA is trying to make the AFP and PNP personnel become “knights of light” through a three-day trainin…
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