101 new grads avail of SoCot GIP

KORONADAL
CITY-To provide them with opportunities to serve the public through
projects and services of government, 101 new college graduates in South
Cotabato were accepted to take part in the Government Internship Program (GIP). Grace
Pauya, South Cotabato Provincial Labor Employment Officer, said beneficiaries
of the program will work in various
departments of provincial government in the next three months. They
will be doing the profiling of child laborers in villages and encoding
registrants in Skills Registry System of Department of Labor and Employment
(DOLE),” Pauya said. GIP
interns will also be responsible in the
monitoring of employment facilitation and social protection programs of the
labor department. Each
local government unit in South Cotabato has 11 GIP interns chosen by the
province’s second congressional office. South
Cotabato Board Member Ellen Grace Subere-Albios, Chairman of the Social
Services and Population Development Committee of Sangguniang Panlalawigan, said
the interns will receive P3,200 monthly stipend. It
is equivalent to 75 percent of the present minimum wage in region 12,” she
said. Albios
assured that another set of 301 new college graduates selected will be empowered
for a better life during the next phase of GIP’s implementation in South
Cotabato. The
internship program was started by DOLE when it accepted fresh college graduates of school year
2011-2012, with degrees pertinent to its
operation such us political science, economics, law, social science, public
administration, journalism and communication, and industrial relations.