LIVELIHOOD PROJECTS FOR THE OUTOFSCHOOL YOUTH OSY IN

LIVELIHOOD PROJECTS FOR THE OUT-OF-SCHOOL YOUTH (OSY) IN ROSARIO DISTRICT, DIVISION OF BATANGAS

“The youth is the hope of the fatherland” a famous saying from Rizal. With education, you can prepare yourself with firm knowledge that will raise you to accomplish your moral intention. The youth becomes the curse of the nation if there is no education.

Rizal emphasizes the educated youth and according to him uneducated youth is the curse of the nation. Being uneducated doesn’t mean that the youth cannot do anything good for our country. There are opportunities for them to be able to learn even they do not go to the school.

The researchers come up to this study to determine what are the existing livelihood projects designed for the Out-of-school youth in Rosario District, Division of Batangas. This will help them to have an opportunity to engage in making livelihood projects, which will help them earn a living and become a responsible citizen in their community. This study will help the researchers to learn more livelihood projects that can be used in the future as an educator.

Statement of the Problem This study aims to determine the existing livelihood projects for outof-school youth in Rosario District. Specifically, this study sought answers to the following questions: 1. What are the existing livelihood projects offered by the Municipality to the OSY? 2. What is the profile of the respondents in terms of: 2. 1 sex; 2. 2 age; 2. 3 civil status; 2. 4 educational attainment; and 2. 5 number of trainings/seminar attended related to livelihood projects?

3. What are the problems encountered by the OSY in the conduct of the livelihood projects? 4. How do the profile of the respondents relate to the problems encountered by the OSY? 5. Based from the findings, what extension service may be proposed to help the OSY in the conduct of livelihood projects?

Significance of the Study There is a fact that every research is conducted not only for the reason that a problem exist, but also the researchers behind this believed that the result of this study will help and be beneficial to the community, parents, OSY, researchers and the future researchers. To the community. This will be another group of beneficiaries of the study in terms of the socio-economic returns as offshoots of productive, useful, peaceful, self-actualizing OSY.

To the parents. This study is an answer to their dream of making their children useful members of the society. The parent’s worries about their children’s involvement in immorality will be a thing of the past. Their children will be involved in doing a productive thing rather than wasting their time in the computer shops where they learn to gamble. To the out-of-school youth. This will give them an opportunity to be engage in making livelihood projects, which will help them earn a living. It will also help them to increase the level of their awareness about these projects. This could hopefully lead to a deeper sense of self-worth as they try to become self-reliant in meeting their own as well as their families’ needs.

To the researchers. They will engage or learn more different livelihood projects that will help them in the future as a TLE teacher. To the future researchers. This study will serve as base line files for similar researchers to be done in the future.

THANK YOU!!! God Bless…