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OWWA SUBSIDIZES
MARINE DECK AND ENGINE
OFFICERS’ MLCs
Filipino seafarers are considered the world’s most in demand in the
seafaring industry because of their impressive qualities in terms of
skills, technical-know-how, adaptability, reliability and their ability to
communicate in English, to name a few. At least two-thirds of the world’s
sea based workers are Filipinos.
T
he Overseas Workers Welfare Administration
(OWWA) invites all Marine Deck and Engine Officers
to grab the opportunity to avail of the `free training’
for the Updating Management Level Courses (MLCs)
offered by the agency to its active members.
To respond to the clamor of the Filipino sea
based workers for financial subsidy to Marine Deck
and Engine Officers who were not able to comply to
the 2010 Standards of Training and Certification and Watchkeeping
for Seafarers (STCW) Convention which will be fully implemented
on 01 July 2017, the OWWA Board of Trustees, chaired by Labor
Secretary Silvestre H. Bello lll approved the OWWA Board Resolution
No. 14, series of 2017, which allocates Php50 Million as assistance to
finance the training of the said sea based workers.
Entitled to the financial subsidy which amounts to Seven
Thousand Five Hundred Pesos (P7,500.00) are active members
who have at least three (3) membership contributions to the Fund,
and who have not yet availed any OWWA program covering said
contributions.
“We hope to enroll as many non-compliant active members
as we can as support to the plight of our member-seafarers, who
because of their failure to take the MLCs prohibited them to
progress to the next step,” OWWA Administrator Hans Leo J. Cacdac
said.
Filipino seafarers are considered the world’s most in demand
in the seafaring industry because of their impressive qualities in
terms of skills, technical-know-how, adaptability, reliability and their
ability to communicate in English, to name a few. At least two-thirds
of the world’s sea based workers are Filipinos.
Courses offered for Deck Officer are: Navigation at the
Management Level, Controlling the Operation of the Ship and Care
for Persons on Board at the Management Level, and for Marine
Engineer; Marine Engineering at the Management Level, Electrical
and Electronic Control Engineering at the Management Level,
Maintenance and Repair at the Management Level, Controlling
the Operation of the Ship and Care for Persons on Board at the
Management Level.
Availees must submit Two (2) copies of accomplished
application form, 2 copies of 2x2 photos, seafarer’s Identification
and Record Book (SIRB) and passport, Enrollment confirmation,
Certification/Endorsement from Principal/Manning Agency that he/
she has not yet availed of similar scholarship grant.
Application for the MLCs may be filed within 90 days from
the date of the seafarer-member’s arrival in the Philippines.
Implementation of the Program is until June 30, 2017, without
extension.
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