PDAO Internship Program: ON-THE-JOB TRAINING
OJT BACKGROUND & GUIDELINES AND REGULATIONS
The PDAO. can only offer unpaid internship to applicants: PWDs and non-PWDs that have concern to help the PWD Community.
As an LGU organization, it provides the opportunity for a limited number of students, the acquisition of direct exposure to its various operations, thus, the organization’s promotion of social works and programs. The practical experience complements development-oriented applied knowledge such as , management, events, public relations, social entrepreneurship.
The Internship Program: On-The Job-Training exposes the students through practical diverse work environments: events, hosted meetings, focus group discussions, program and management to name a few in gaining direct insights into the works of the Persons With Disability Affairs Office.
Purpose
The purpose of the PDAO’s Internship Program: On-The Job-Training is to provide an actual environment by which students from diverse academic background may be able to directly experience, immerse, understand, and evaluate actual scenarios and practical challenges in the work environment. The Internship Program: On-The Job-Training will deepen their knowledge and understanding on the various social entrepreneurial facets of the organization in relating with various private and public organizations, and to its various local environment programs.
System & Process
GROUP
Online Video Meeting
Online Asynchronous (Online and Offline)
Actual Seminar Type
SOLO
Online Synchronous (Online)
Online Mentoring
Actual Face to Face
Roles
The typical tasks performed by students generally are as follows: (1) facilitates events (seminars, workshops, business group discussions); (2) publishing knowledge stories, innovation principles and best practices of the organization; (3) socialize with members; (4) drafting business events including the definition of its logistics; (5) participates in the various community programs, organizational meetings, and other official functions of the organization; the roles will be dependent to the academic background and interests of the students. In summary, the Internship Program: On-The Job-Training offers professional experience to students in an executive or middle-management perspective.
Eligibility
The PDAO’s Internship Program: On-The Job-Training admit students who are currently enrolled in a recognized university, college or tertiary institutions, even in the graduate schools based in Laguna or out-of-school youth. Any student aspirant should demonstrate willingness to learn & train, computer literate in standard software applications, demonstrated interest in the work of the PDAO including the ability to successfully communicate and interact with PWD individuals of different cultural backgrounds and beliefs, asserts respect to individual differences (cultural perspectives, political philosophies, opinions, and views).
Administration
The administration of the Internship Program: On-The Job-Training is centralized to the Office of the PDAO in cooperation with the Office of HRMO subject to the approval of the Office of the Mayor.
Duration
The Internship Program: On-The Job-Training respond to the skills needed requirements of the intern as well as the needs of the PDAO normally, the duration is minimum of two months and maximum of fifteen weeks (five months), although special cases are granted depending on its merit.
The Internship Program: On-The Job-Training assignments are available on a part-time and full-time basis throughout the year, depending on the availability of relevant assignments and the needs and capacity to receive and supervise interns.
Legal Status
The Internship Program: On-The Job-Training is a voluntarily application to aspirant interns, considered gratis volunteers. Interns may not represent the PDAO in any official or unofficial capacity. However, subject to availability of fund, Interns are financially remunerated by the LGU, all costs connected with the interns’ participation should be shouldered by PDAO.
Insurance
The PDAO accepts no responsibility for medical and life insurance of the intern or costs arising from accidents and illness incurred during the internship. As a condition for their acceptance, student aspirants for Internship Program: On-The Job-Training should link the organization to his/her school’s contact person for coordination purposes.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
WHAT IS THE MEANING?
PDAO is an abbreviation of the Persons With Disability Affairs Office.
WHAT IS THE LEGITIMACY?
The PDAO is under Office of the Mayor, created under executive order____.
IS THE PDAO under DSWD?
No. The PDAO is under office of the Mayor.
CAN I APPLY FOR AN INTERNSHIP?
Yes. Internship at this point of time is possible.
CAN I RECEIVE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE?
Yes. Subject to availability of funds. Financial assistance is available only to the following:
Transportation Allowance.
E-Load Allowance
HOW CAN I CONTRIBUTE TO THE WORK?
PDAO accepts financial contributions or related human contributions if consistent with its functions.
DOES THE PIEMI OFFER FINANCIAL, LOGISTICAL OR LEGAL ASSISTANCE?
No. Being an NGO, its resources are allocated only to programs which have been officially approved by its Board of Trustees.
Bone And Joint Awareness Week
PROCLAMATION No. 658
DECLARING THE 3RD WEEK OF OCTOBER OF EVERY YEAR AS “BONE AND JOINT (MUSCULO-SKELETAL) AWARENESS WEEK”
WHEREAS, Bone & Joint Disorders are among the most common medical conditions with substantial influence on the health, quality of life and unnecessary loss of resources that affects millions of Filipinos of all ages with a continuous increase in prevalence;
WHEREAS, the life long condition will affect almost every Filipino at one time of their lifetime being the most common cause of severe long term pain and physical disability, which if not immediately relieved, may be fatal;
WHEREAS, there is a need to maximally enhance the consciousness of the populace on Bone & Joint Disorders and to coordinate group activities conducted for Bone & Joint Disorders, hence the need for an inter-agency committee with the Department of Health as lead agency.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO, President of the Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare the third week of October of every year as “Bone & Joint (Musculo-Skeletal) Disorders Awareness Week”.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.
in the City of Manila, this 5th day of July, in the year of our Lord, Two Thousand and Four.
(Sgd.) GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO
President of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.) ALBERTO G. ROMULO
Executive Secretary
Source: https://www.ncda.gov.ph/disability-laws/proclamations/proclamation-no-658/
“Water, Water Everywhere And Not A drop To …” Irrigate.
By Foreign Eyes
Laguna de Bay holds a lot of water 2.25-3.2km3 ( 2.25-3.2×10 15 li, or 2.25 thousand million megalitres). The contour maps show Laguna and Pagsanjan at about 10m elevation above sea level with the lake about 2m above sea level too. This is easily damned by a succession of weirs. Laguna de Bay could be easily and cheaply harvested to irrigate all the fallow land in Laguna and Pagsanjan. If the level of the lake was decreased by only 1cm that would result in 9.1×10 11li or 911,700 megalitres of water for irrigation.
There is a lot of rice land in Laguna that would benefit from salvaging a tiny fraction of the Laguna water to pump upstream along the Sta Cruz River and also the Pagsanjan River then along the irrigation canals to flood the rice fields. All it would take is a few weirs on each river and pumps at those weirs to pump the water upstream. Then every potential rice field could become an actual rice field.
Section 1 Provincial Benefits
The benefits would be a huge increase in 1) agricultural production in the province. 2) work for farm workers. 3) income for owners of agricultural land. 4) tax revenue for the province and the town of Pagsanjan and others. 5) lower prices for rice and other food items. 6) the value of fallow land. 7) It would also insulate agrarian production from seasons of drought.
Section 2 National Benefits
When the level of Laguna de Bay is harvested it would serve as a buffer to stop Manila from flooding which is not an unimportant consequence.
More local production of rice and other food stuffs would save foreign capital on the purchase of overseas rice.
All it needs are politicians with vision to implement such a scheme.
Divorce, Annulment or Separation?
By Foreign Eyes
The Philippines is one of the few countries in the whole world that does not allow divorce. Is this situation good or bad? Is this lack of divorce God’s will or man’s will?
The Church will say that divorce is bad and it must be resisted at all costs. The Bible says that “God Hates divorce”! Malachi 2:16. But is these reasons not to allow divorce? Jesus said “God allowed divorce because of the hardness of man’s hearts” Mark 10:5. But Jesus also allowed divorce for Infidelity Matthew 19:9. And St Paul allowed divorce for desertion 1 Corr 7:10-16. The Church allows annulment, which is great for the rich who can afford the hundreds of thousands of pesos. However, they condemn the poor to misery with people just living together without any legal safety for themselves and their children.
I believe that the President and not the Catholic Church correctly interprets the mind of God as written in his word to mankind-The Bible. The Church loads down people with rules. It is just as Jesus said in Matthew 23:4. The Bishops Conference of the Philippines “Tie up heavy cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them”.
I have met many good kind people in the Philippines whose spouses have deserted them to commit adultery. But the innocent are trapped and unable to seek a new partner to blend their life with. The Church rewards the wicked but punishes the innocent. I have also met other good Filipinos whose spouse has deserted them without cause but who also cannot restart their life with a sanctified marriage.
My first wife deserted our marriage so I divorced her. I thank God that my home country has Protestant compassion and follows God’s rules. Now I am an Alien in the Philippines I have been blessed by God with a marriage to a wonderful Christian lady. I wish that all Filipinos had the same benefits of divorce and remarriage that I have.
Hopefully, the President will be able to legislate his Christian viewpoint on Godly principles and allow inexpensive divorce for adultery, desertion, violence and drug addiction.
Wasted Resources
By Foreign Eyes
Looking around my barangay, Cabanbanan and my town, Pagsanjan I see much human capital wasted in underemployment (seasonal work) and unemployment (no work). I also see large areas of land lying fallow and untendered. I cannot understand why there is little incentive from government to combine these two wasted resources. The National Government has a “Build, Build Build” programme to invest billions of Pesos in construction of mega projects in the NCR. I cannot understand why there is no money for investment in “Grow, Grow, Grow” in wasted parts of the Philippines.
The National and Provincial government could allocate money to the barangays to invest in food production within their barangay. The barangay with their local knowledge of land and the reliability of borrowers could allocate the money for vegetable loans and palay loans.
The effect of this within responsible barangays would be:
1.Local food production. Each barangay would become a food producer.
2.Reduction of food imports. Each barengay would save local money currently spent on importing food.
3.Reduced food costs>lower inflation. With extra food production the supply side effects on prices and then on inflation of low supply of wood would be eliminated.
4.Rental income for land owners. Land owners whose fields currently lie fallow and financially unproductive would receive rental income.
5.Employment for unemployed farm workers. Unemployed workers would upon sale of their surplus produce receive income.
6.Income for poor local people. Income for local people would be in the form of traded farm products and sale of produce.
7.Elimination of some usurious money lenders. Low cost loans from the central government through the barengay’s control structure would partially eliminate the usury of some money lenders.
The only thing stopping this local investment happening to redeem wasted land and people is vision. Micro development is more efficient than macro development!!
Inflation Comedy
By Foreign Eyes
How many ways can Philippine Bureaucrats make up fairy stories about inflation? Perhaps if they employed a competent economist they might get their facts correct?
The President says that it all the fault of the Philippines having no native oil. Therefore the Philippines is a “Price Taker” and inflation is a “Supply side” problem. Yesterday he was contradicted by a government apparatchik who stated that “Inflation was good” because inflation is from the TRAIN Tax which targeted evil food group items like sugary drinks and cigarettes. Which by the way make up a tiny fraction of the fraction which is food items. We are told that Rice and vegetables are a significant cause of inflation. We are also told that VERY soon import controls will be lifted from foreign rice imports just as soon as it passes the Senate (manyana?). Also lifted will be controls on sugar, so any amount of the evil drug ‘sugar’ can be imported to be put into sugary drinks. To understand the logic of that decision you will have to ask the “Inflation is good” politician.
Some economists say that inflation has peaked and will be lower in the fourth quarter and lower again next year. Today I read that a BSP official Mr Medella said that inflation is still to rise in October. But that “They expect inflation to start normalizing already”. Yesterday I read that the minimum Jeepney fare will be 10P from November. That is an 11% increase and a 25% increase from 5 months ago in the basic jeepney fare. Who rides in jeepneys, POOR PEOPLE!
The BSP and economists are so incompetent about a) what inflation is?, b)how to control it?, c) is it increasing or decreasing?&d) is it good or bad and how much is good and when does it become bad. How can we be sure that the mix of items in each basket of items which the National Statistics Office use to measure the aggregate price rise (ie Inflation) is an accurate measure of the state of price increases in the Philippines?
The more information that I am told about inflation the less I believe the perspicacity of the teller and the accuracy of their facts. FAKE DATA>>FAKE INFORMATION.
Disaster Management- Proactive or Reactive
By Foreign Eyes
This year’s Nobel Prize goes to two economists whose research was into the effects of climate change on long term sustainable growth. This research is critically important to the Philippines in the areas of 1) food production and 2) food security. It is also important in the areas of 3) disaster management, 4) building codes, 5) coastal development & 6) vegetation/tree clearing& planting on steep terrain.
The Super typhoon Ompong and its devastating effects on the provinces in Northern Luzon and on food supply and on inflation should be a wakeup call for the government to act in all 6 areas mentioned above. How quickly people forget the effects of the Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) which devastated Pagsanjan in 2014.
Where is the proactive economic modelling of the various disaster types: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Tsunamis, Landslides, Floods, Monsoons and Super Typhoons? Where is the Disaster Auditing of all Philippine government activities? With the promotion and possible implementation of Federalism much of this physical and economic proactive and reactive response to both natural disasters and man-made disasters will devolve to the individual provinces. Each province, city and barangay as well as the national government should have a disaster plan for natural disasters like earthquakes, tsunamis, monsoons and volcanoes. All levels of government should also have a proactive and reactive plan for man-made disasters like super typhoons, landslides and floods.
I see reactive planning in some areas of the country but I see little economic investment in proactive disaster prevention and mitigation of the effects and rescue and recovery.
Hopefully the Philippines government will invite these two Nobel Prize winning economists to advise them on climate change planning the prepare the Philippines for the subsequent disasters to hit these lovely island.
Proactive Road Planning
By Foreign Eyes
The Stop-Start road from Areza to Liliw has almost reached Unson Elementary School,
(UES). The October school holidays are almost here. This would be the best time for the smashing of the broken concrete road and its replacement outside UES.
This planning would demonstrate proper thought by the engineers managing the project. It would demonstrate consideration to the children and their parents attempting to enter and exit the school. Additionally there is the safety factor to consider. Are the road planning engineers prepared to take responsibility for any and all accidents that may happen to children or their parents as they traverse a construction site?
There are other factors to consider too: The food sellers on the footpath will have their business disrupted, The teachers in the two story block facing the road will be unable to teach with the noise of the concrete busting jackhammers operating only 50m from their class rooms.
I hope that the Unson Elementary School, the Department of Education as well as the Barangay Councilors for Cabanbanan will make forceful presentations to the road replacement engineers to schedule the replacement of the concrete road opposite UES for the October School Holidays.
Philippines Inflation Direction?
By Foreign Eyes
Where is the Philippines Inflation headed, by how much and what causes the change?
Inflation is caused when the things that we buy get more expensive. Tangible things like increases in the price of imported oil to power our transport and coal to make electricity to light our homes and power our SMs and factories. Oil has had a double price rise with the depreciation in the value of the Paso by 8.7% since January 1 this year combined with a 70% increase in the US$ price of oil over the last 2 years from $40.68 in 2016 to $69.02 this month. These costs get passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices.
There are other external (supply side) shocks which impact the Philippine’s inflation rate. The current USA trade war against the rest of the world will impact the close logistical supply chain which includes Philippine exports and imports to major SE Asian trading partners.
Increases in government taxes and charges also contribute to inflation. The TRAIN Tax is a case in point. This Regressive Tax will raise prices on the poorest Filipinos. Governments also bring in rules and regulations which change the basis of doing business. This is most obvious is the legislation to replace obsolescent jeepneys with high tech mini buses. These luxurious people movers will cost probably five times the cost of a jeepney and be slower to operate. They may emit less pollutant particles with their more efficient diesel engines but their overall gaseous pollution is probably higher because they are air-conditioned and therefore burn more diesel.
External weather events like Ompong which decimated a large agricultural area of Luzon will raise prices on rice and vegetables. Richer people can afford to pay more for food than poorer people so the price of scarce food will increase.
Inflation will increase every month as the exchange rate depreciation impacts oil and other imports. Weather events create food shortages. Governments extract more money in taxes and charges as well as imposing unrealistic standards on the country.
Inefficiency also contributes to inflation. Inefficiency such as signs at Areza saying “NO Helmet, No Ride, Fine P500” while riders go past the Areza and Pagsawitan police posts without helmets with impunity while the police sit comfortably in their shelters watching the passing parade.
Kindness to Beggars
By Foreign Eyes
I see many children begging when it is school time. They are always boys. I also see many boys out playing or riding their bikes when it is school time. Children who are educated are the future of the Philippines. The age of manual labour has passed. Boys who can’t read grow into teenagers who are only computer literate playing action games in computer shops. They grow into men who have no future in supporting a family, except for occasional manual labour or begging charity from relatives.
Each person should resolve NEVER to give charity to beggar children. Either this begging is self directed with the money going for sweets or for computer games OR it is a family business where the beggar children support the family because the parents can’t or won’t work.
The various levels of the Philippine government should have a policy towards addressing truancy from school. The Barangay should develop a policy for the Barangay police to remove beggar children and truanting children to the Barangay hall for collection by their parents. The schools should know and report all children who miss more than a certain number of days of school for action by education authorities and any government organisation who provides finances to the family. This should be a national policy. One aspect of being ‘a Third World Country’ is poverty of education and corresponding poverty of opportunity.
Kindness to begging children is NEVER to give them money but to tell them severely “GO TO SCHOOL”!
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