Since I wasn't able to listen to the SONA of the President she delivered last July 28, 2008... I just read it's 9-page SONA I got through the Internet. hehe☺☺☺
The following sentences were from what I have read, the SONA 2008 of PGMA:
"In training, 7.74 million took technical and vocational courses over the last seven years, double the number in the previous 14 years. In 2007 alone, 1.7 million graduated. Among them are Jessica Barlomento now in Hanjin as supply officer, Shenve Catana, Marie Grace Comendador, and Marlyn Tusi, lady welders, congratulations."
>> Offering technical and vocational courses will increase the rate of productive human resource.
"Our P 350 million training partnership with the private sector should qualify 60,000 for call centers, medical transcription, animation and software development, which have a projected demand of one million workers generating $13 billion by 2010."
>>Through these, the rate of unemployment & underemployment will decrease because of those jobs which have a projected demand of a million workers -- a million of Human Resource.
"I call on all our government workers at the national and local levels to be more responsive and accountable to the people. Panahon ito ng pagsubok. Kung saan kayang tumulong at dapat tumulong ang pamahalaan, we must be there with a helping hand. Where government can contribute nothing useful, stay away. Let's be more helpful, more courteous, more quick."
>>PGMA's call is addressed to the government workers in all levels. Indeed, if all the government sectors will be MORE helpful, more courteous and more quick, I think human resource will ALSO be more enticed to be a better human resource.^^
Reference:SONA 2008(author:adriancm)
