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OWWA Seafarers Trainings Reach Thousands in 2007
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From January to December 2007, the Regional Operations Coordinating Service (ROCS) of THE Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) reported a total of 3,992 availments for upgrading trainings for seafarers sponsored by the OWWA under the Seafarers Upgrading Program (SUP).
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The SUP is one of the Education and Training Benefits available to sea-based OWWA members. The OWWA sponsors upgrading courses for seafarers who are either required to take trainings as a prerequisite to their next deployment or who intend to take licensure exams to apply for a promotion. With the SUP sponsorship, seafarers enhance their skills and improve their craft while saving up to seven thousand five hundred pesos in training expenses.
In 2007, the most number of SUP courses sponsored by the OWWA was for General Operators Certificate for Global Maritime Distress Safety System (GOC for GMDSS), followed by Engine Room Simulator (ERS). Other courses with the most number of availments were on Culinary and Allied Courses, Welding, and Ship Simulator and Bridge Teamwork (SSBT). Under the SUP, the availees are given free rein to choose the course as well as the maritime training center where they intend to enroll. OWWA ensures that their grantees only get the best trainings by having these maritime training centers conduct programs which are accredited by the Maritime Training Council (MTC).
Of the hundreds of thousands of seafarers coming in and out of the country (246,614 Filipino seafarers were deployed from January to December in 2007), SUP grantees are expected to multiply in number as those who have enjoyed the sponsorship are the ones who make referrals to their fellow seafarers. These graduates are also eligible to avail of succeeding trainings as part of the OWWA assistance to the seafarers’ continuing education. All OWWA Regional Welfare Offices nationwide are always ready to facilitate their applications.
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