A total of 40 persons deprived of liberty (PDL) in the Quezon City Jail Female Dormitory (QCJFD) underwent a livelihood skills training program conducted by the Quezon City Small Business and Cooperatives Development Promotions Office (SBCDPO).
The SBCDPO officer-in-charge Ms. Mona Yap said that the QC Essentials Community Artisan Program was held on April 6 to 8, where 20 women in the jail joined the bayong-making training, while 20 others participated in pillow-making.
The participants were taught how to create bayong or native baskets, placemats, pillows, and bags for which they can add to the skills they can use for livelihood.
The SBCDPO also provided 400 beads and pillows starter kits to the QCJFD which include beading threads, different types of beads, yarns, pliers, brushes, tape measure, needles, cloth, and other, which can be used by the PDLs to make creative and sellable items.
Yap said that the program will be a series of training for the PDLs.
She added that they are also planning to conduct a beginners’ basic sewers course where the newly committed PDLs in the female correctional facility can participate to learn how to make pillows and pillowcases.