The PNP volunteers. (l-r) SPO2 Laarni Cimatu; PO3 Francis Mae Mugemulta; PO1 Feliciano Ricardo Sumogat; PO2 Cheryl Gemina (front row). NFEFI project manager Davoy Castor; SPO1 Romeo Gustilo; PO2 Michael Awit; PO2 Liza Aliposa; SPO1 Uldarica Estomata; SPO4 Marilou Alfonso; PO2 Sheryll Mendoza; NFEFI curator Dr. Joanne Justo; PO2 Lereza Pachorro; SPO1 Rey Jereos; NFEFI trustee Robert Harland (standing, right).*

The Development and Welfare Integration System (DAWIS) Kinderhome, Inc. in coordination with the Abad-Santos Madrigal Foundation, Inc, (ASMF), Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), San Miguel Corporation and the Office of Councilor Wilson Gamboa, Jr. will again hold a reflexology training seminar starting Monday, Feb. 8, 2010 at the Masskara Hall, New Government Center.

This training-seminar in Reflexology aims to enhance skills development, contribution to medical tourism and as income augmentation alternative.

Meanwhile, Councilor Wilson Gamboa, who had been the main proponent of the project since the first training, stressed that a "massage therapist" now earns at least P200 per session enough to augment income at such a time when poverty abounds among Filipinos.

While government cannot provide direct employment to answer the poverty condition besetting 70 percent of Filipinos, his office however can provide an "enabling environment" like this reflexology training-seminar and which he said, is the role of government in the first place.

He added that Government cannot provide jobs but its role is to empower towards economic self-sufficiency, educate towards employable skills development, encourage and uplift people out of this generational cycle of poverty," Gamboa in an inspirational speech said.

"Learning skills in reflexology enables a participant to engage in alternative livelihood and an employable skill as spas and wellness centers are sprouting all over the city and even including outside of Bacolod City," he said.

Pastor Selisa, meanwhile, stressed that he saw Jesus as a healer in this endeavor and exhorted participants to follow the Lord’s example.

The healing of Jesus, he said, has social, psychological and spiritual implications which each participant can adapt as well.*