OFWs in Brunei Upgrade Skills Through Basic Baking Course

Participants to the Basic Baking Course pose for a photo with Labor Attaché Melissa Mendizabal (third from right) and course instructor Mr. Abegael L. Vinluan (center) (Brunei PE photo)

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN 01 August 2019 — Through the initiative of the Philippine Overseas Labor Office-Overseas Worker’s Welfare Administration (POLO-OWWA), the Philippine Embassy in Brunei held the third offering for 2019 of its Basic Baking Course Program for active OWWA members on 14 July 2019 at the Migrant Workers and Other Overseas Filipino Resource Center (MWOFRC) in Chempaka Park, Jalan Tutong.

A total of 12 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) participated in the skills enhancement course, which is part of the government’s Reintegration Program for OFWs that aims to provide additional livelihood skills, especially to household service workers.

Instructor Abegael L. Vinluan shared with participants simple baking rules and guided them through the step-by-step procedures of baking red velvet cake and carrot cake. The participants were divided into groups, with each given a set of baking ingredients and utensils. END

Course instructor Abegael Vinluan guides the OFW-participants in the step-by-step baking procedure. (Brunei PE photo)

A participant carefully layers his carrot cake with frosting. (Brunei PE photo)

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