The NOVA Foundation and CBM Launch The Country’s First Training Center in ICT For The Differently Abled

April 17, 2006

The training program is a vocational and academic course work in computer fundamentals and networking, keyboarding and data encoding, and corporate and behavioral modification training. These courses enable the trainees to acquire the necessary skills and attitudes to be accepted and perform well in large corporations.

One innovative step in their training was the introduction of a “mock” monthly project which features the simulation of an encoding project done by the Foundation’s encoding project to be able to expose them to actual work procedures while in their training. This will take six weeks to complete.

For those interested to take the training, please write to:

HRD Department, NOVA Foundation
Unit 27, 2/F Columbia Tower,
Ortigas Ave., Mandaluyong City.
Or e-mail at : info@novafoundation.ph.

First Batch – 63 Trainees

All told, a total of 57 trainees out of 63 were able to finish the training program on Dec. 22, 2005. Batch One’s disability profile consisted of 32 hearing impaired trainees, 18 orthopedically impaired and 7 with various disabilities.

About 35 differently abled persons in the first batch of trainees had been employed by the Foundation. The other 2s graduate trainees are being assisted in for positions with other companies.

Second Batch – 33 Trainees

The second training started on January 10 and ended on March 31, 2006. About 28 out of 33 trainees had completed the training program.

The training curriculum was enhanced by the integration of basic English communication skills and additional exercises towards comprehension and analysis. Two sets of simulated data encoding work are being utilized.

For their OJT part, 28 trainees had been assigned to the different departments of the Foundation such as batching, technical, hops, production and training. Thus, they had been able to apply what they learned from the academic course work and their practical training or OJT.

Of the 28 graduate trainees, 3 are employed with the Foundation and the other 25 are still being assisted in their quests for jobs. Our disability profile for this second batch consists of 15 hearing impaired, 10 orthopedically impaired and 3 with various other disabilities.

Third Batch

The Training Center has just started its Third Batch for which 42 differently abled trainees had begun their training last April 17, 2006.