Member Companies Contributing to Skills Development and Employment

Accenture’s Skills to Succeed continues to train the youth The Near Hire Training has been implemented since the year 2015. The project is intended for unemployed individuals who are of employable age and belong to economically disadvantaged families living in the Greater Manila Area and in Laoag, Ilocos Norte. Beneficiaries, who have finished at least two years of college would go through the 15-day voice training and pass the employment assessment of Accenture. To date, a total of 805 trainees completed the training and about 484 have been employed.

Mano Amiga aims to scale up the impact of the Bistro Café training and livelihood program to direct beneficiaries consisting of women residing in urban slums in Taguig and Parañaque City. The selected women underwent training on Mastery of Culinary Techniques, and Entrepreneurship. To date, 91 women completed the training while 52 women are now employed or have been able put up a small business.
Kapwa Greens is an enterprise that created Tsaa Laya as a premium tea brand that pioneers the development of local herbs, fruits, and spices of Philippine islands into modern tea ingredients. Teas are source of livelihood for mothers and women who are relocated from Manila to the countryside due to typhoons or city planning. To date, 131 beneficiaries participated in different activities implemented in this project. 75 out of 131 are now employed or into small businesses.

L’Oreal Philippines’ Beauty for a Better Life Project has trained 108 individuals from Marikina City on hairdressing. Fifty of them are now employed in salons and/or doing hairdressing home services.

Dow Chemical supported the provision of Welding Equipment and Skills Training for two master welders from Las Piñas who are now employed.
Leonio Riverside Livelihood Intervention Project of Leonio Land Holdings, Inc., started the project with PBSP to undertake in-depth community organizing and strengthening of existing livelihood program for the residents of Purok 3-Riverside of Barangay Hacienda Dolores. It involved 45 households engaged in the project activities that included provision of financing to support their livelihood, training on integrated farming, basket weaving, and dressmaking