VERA Files
Persons with disability make good assets in the workplace, contrary to a deeply-rooted stigma that they are liabilities.
THE Department of Health (DOH) has suspended the implementation of a blanket licensing requirement for all massage therapists in the country while working out a system of accreditation with the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA). The licensing order will be deferred for three years, or until December 2017. If it were enforced according […]
By JAKE SORIANO IN December last year, blind massage therapists from Zamboanga City traveled all the way to Cagayan de Oro to undergo licensing exams. They took the nearly 500-km journey because their jobs were on the line. But Typhoon Ruby (Hagupit) struck, and they were told to go home. No exams meant no licenses. […]
Text and photos by JAKE SORIANO PERSONS with disabilities (PWDs) are now guaranteed the best market for their products and services: the government. The signing last year of the implementing rules and regulations of Executive Order 417 or the Economic Independence Program for PWDs, is key to providing sustainable livelihoods for PWDs, say advocates. “PWDs are […]