CCT Staff Join Pork Barrel Protest

More than 200 CCT leaders, staff, and community partners joined the August 26 rally in Luneta to protest misuse of taxpayers' money.  CCT's participation began with a march to the park from the CCT office on Taft Avenue, after which they joined a program prepared by the Institute for Studies in Asian Church and Culture, and walked around a portion of the park singing the nationalistic song Pilipinas Kong Mahal. Along with Ruth Callanta, CCT president, and Melba Maggay, ISACC president, the group raised voices to heaven, imploring God to "Let justice run down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream (Amos 5:24)."

Photos courtesy of Noeh Vios and Ging Guerrero 

Quezon City Men Graduate from CTDI, Receive TESDA Certification

Graduates of  a  CCT TDI short-term course on carpentry and masonry proudly hold up their certificates. 

Twenty-six men from Bagong Silangan, Payatas, Commonwealth, and Batasan in Quezon City recently graduated from a special short-term course on carpentry and masonry  at the CCT Training and Development Institute, Magdalena, Laguna campus.  Except for two, the men  passed assessment tests given by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, have received certification from the agency, and now have a better chance for employment.

The men are  husbands, sons, nephews, and in-laws of CCT micro finance community partners.

Graduation day, held in Bagong Silangan,  was a much-awaited and joyful event for the men and their families since many of them had never completed high school or grade school.

The course was run in partnership with the Wholistic Transformation Resource Center.  A second group of 30 men will start similar training this month.