FROM POVERTY TO PROSPERITY
NO HOLDS BARRED (030) September 11, 2009
By Ike Señeres
FROM POVERTY TO PROSPERITY
Historically, 9-11 is supposed to commemorate a day of destruction, but the heavens must have been smiling at me today, because it is on this day that I was finally able to complete my unified system of providing assistance to those who would like to go to school, go to work, or go into business. I have long been working on this 3-in-1 combination, and now it is finally done and is ready to go.
Starting with Informatics, Datamax and the Philippine School of Business Administration (PSBA), anyone could now take any course in any campus of these schools, without paying any tuition or any other fees at school openings, provided that they pass the entrance exams, and provided further that they will join either our entrepreneurship program or our employment program, or both as the case may be. This is like a “Study Now, Pay Later Plan”, with the University Consortium acting as the guarantor.
As a result of a joint venture agreement between my TV shows and Job1 Global, Inc., anyone can now go to work, or I should say look for work in a much more organized manner. Through a unique combination of an online portal and a professional skills assessment system, job seekers will now have a chance of being hired by employers who will search for them in the portal, and who will evaluate their assessment results.
In cooperation with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), I am now in a position to refer any small and medium enterprise (SME) to the nearest and most appropriate microfinance lending agency (MLA). Of course it would take more than financing to go into business, but it is certainly a good starting point, since the training and marketing components are much easier to deliver thereafter.
There is a common denominator in this 3-in-1 combination, and that is the good news of being able to remove the barriers that would prevent people from moving on with the improvement of their lives. To be more specific, I have removed the barriers to education, employment and entrepreneurship. It is now possible for our people to move on from poverty to prosperity.
Is it possible for anyone to avail of all three elements in the combination? The answer is yes, because a student who goes to school could also be a working student, and could also go into business as an entrepreneur. The answer is really yes, because all the barriers to these three pathways out of poverty have already been removed.
So far, six companies have agreed to support our education program. All of these companies have agreed to train and manage the students who will be selling their products in order to earn money to pay for their tuitions. Three of these companies have agreed to supply their products to the students on a consignment basis, thus eliminating the need for working capital. I will name these companies in my future columns.
Assessment is a very important component of our employment program. The results of the assessments will dictate what is going to go into the records of the job applicants in the online portal. I am hoping that some local government units (LGUs) and some non-government organizations (NGOs) could be convinced to sponsor the assessment costs. Hopefully, this could become part of their employment placement programs.
Since anyone could take up any course in any of the participating schools, some of the job applicants who are not so marketable given their present skills might want to go back to school to get a second degree. This might even be double good for them, because they might end up with a good product to sell, a product that could give them a good income already even if they could not get a full time job.
The other projects or activities that I have announced in this column are still ongoing. Overseas groups are still soliciting for used computers that will be reformatted and distributed to the barangay units. Our compatriots here and abroad could now also donate 60 dollars to any beneficiary who will be given 100 square meters of land to plant sweet potato, along with the other inputs such as training, spuds and fertilizers.
The enemy is poverty, but we have now cornered the enemy into a position of weakness. Let us now give a chance to others to be freed from poverty.
Watch my TV show “Bears & Bulls”, a daily coverage of the Philippine Stock Exchange. 9:00 am to 1:00 pm in Global News Network. Email iseneres@yahoo.com or text +639293605140 for local cable listings.
By Ike Señeres
FROM POVERTY TO PROSPERITY
Historically, 9-11 is supposed to commemorate a day of destruction, but the heavens must have been smiling at me today, because it is on this day that I was finally able to complete my unified system of providing assistance to those who would like to go to school, go to work, or go into business. I have long been working on this 3-in-1 combination, and now it is finally done and is ready to go.
Starting with Informatics, Datamax and the Philippine School of Business Administration (PSBA), anyone could now take any course in any campus of these schools, without paying any tuition or any other fees at school openings, provided that they pass the entrance exams, and provided further that they will join either our entrepreneurship program or our employment program, or both as the case may be. This is like a “Study Now, Pay Later Plan”, with the University Consortium acting as the guarantor.
As a result of a joint venture agreement between my TV shows and Job1 Global, Inc., anyone can now go to work, or I should say look for work in a much more organized manner. Through a unique combination of an online portal and a professional skills assessment system, job seekers will now have a chance of being hired by employers who will search for them in the portal, and who will evaluate their assessment results.
In cooperation with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), I am now in a position to refer any small and medium enterprise (SME) to the nearest and most appropriate microfinance lending agency (MLA). Of course it would take more than financing to go into business, but it is certainly a good starting point, since the training and marketing components are much easier to deliver thereafter.
There is a common denominator in this 3-in-1 combination, and that is the good news of being able to remove the barriers that would prevent people from moving on with the improvement of their lives. To be more specific, I have removed the barriers to education, employment and entrepreneurship. It is now possible for our people to move on from poverty to prosperity.
Is it possible for anyone to avail of all three elements in the combination? The answer is yes, because a student who goes to school could also be a working student, and could also go into business as an entrepreneur. The answer is really yes, because all the barriers to these three pathways out of poverty have already been removed.
So far, six companies have agreed to support our education program. All of these companies have agreed to train and manage the students who will be selling their products in order to earn money to pay for their tuitions. Three of these companies have agreed to supply their products to the students on a consignment basis, thus eliminating the need for working capital. I will name these companies in my future columns.
Assessment is a very important component of our employment program. The results of the assessments will dictate what is going to go into the records of the job applicants in the online portal. I am hoping that some local government units (LGUs) and some non-government organizations (NGOs) could be convinced to sponsor the assessment costs. Hopefully, this could become part of their employment placement programs.
Since anyone could take up any course in any of the participating schools, some of the job applicants who are not so marketable given their present skills might want to go back to school to get a second degree. This might even be double good for them, because they might end up with a good product to sell, a product that could give them a good income already even if they could not get a full time job.
The other projects or activities that I have announced in this column are still ongoing. Overseas groups are still soliciting for used computers that will be reformatted and distributed to the barangay units. Our compatriots here and abroad could now also donate 60 dollars to any beneficiary who will be given 100 square meters of land to plant sweet potato, along with the other inputs such as training, spuds and fertilizers.
The enemy is poverty, but we have now cornered the enemy into a position of weakness. Let us now give a chance to others to be freed from poverty.
Watch my TV show “Bears & Bulls”, a daily coverage of the Philippine Stock Exchange. 9:00 am to 1:00 pm in Global News Network. Email iseneres@yahoo.com or text +639293605140 for local cable listings.
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