CATBALOGAN CITY – Targeting to positively create an impact to the lives of the marginalized sectors in the province, faculty extension workers of Samar State University (SSU) continue to serve the community through the extension programs of SSU’s Samar Island Center for Adult Education and Technology Learning (SICAETLE) conducted on May and June (22).
Trainings along entrepreneurial development, literacy, educational leadership and innovative pedagogical approaches, as well on capacitating the people’s organizations were all provided as the Center plans to expand these this year.
The extension activities were in partnership with the implementing colleges: College of Education, College of Arts and Sciences, SSU-Paranas Campus, SSU-Basey Campus, College of Nursing and Health Sciences and with the support of the partner agencies and Local Government Units: Department of Science and Technology’s GALING-PCAARRD, Department of Trade and Industry -Samar, Department of Education – Samar and Catbalogan City Divisions, LGU-Marabut, LGU-Basey, LGU-Paranas, LGU-Calbiga, LGU-Matuguinao, and LGU-San Jose de Buan.
According to the SSU-SICAETLE Director Dr. Marife M. Lacaba, this is their way of increasing livelihood opportunities among the marginalized populations composed of farmer-peasants, fisherfolks, women, children and youth, persons with special needs, indigenous people, urban poor, and senior citizens who are all facing increased vulnerabilities.
“These activities birthed in the hope of finding solutions to the vicious cycle of poverty and its many consequences, one local community at a time,” she stated.