Press Release No. EBB-16-2020
Jeddah PCG underscores resilience and flexibility to Filipino healthcare graduates
Jeddah, 9 March 2020 – The Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah (Jeddah PCG) encouraged graduates of the Caregiver and Nurse Assistant Programs of Filipino-run Health Alliance Training Center (HATC) to embody and live by the traits of resilience and flexibility in their quest for a better life in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This was the message of Consul General Edgar B. Badajos as conveyed by Vice-Consul Alfred Kristoffer Guiang to the graduates during HATC’s 10th Commencement Exercises on 22 February 2020.
“Filipinos are known to be very resilient and flexible people, and these traits have helped us to easily cope with, and rise from, disasters no matter how tumultuous and devastating they are. These traits are what Filipinos have also exhibited during difficult times in life. Instead of giving up, Filipinos looks for creative ways to overcome their current situation and to have a better chance at life,” Vice Consul Guiang said on behalf of Consul General Badajos.
The seventeen (17) graduates make up HATC’s Batch 9 and Batch 4, respectively, of the institution’s caregiver and nursing assistant programs. HATC has for two years been offering interested OFWs intensive trainings in caregiving and in the nursing aide program. The additional competencies gained by OFWs from the trainings may open alternative career options to the graduates. The institution has also been offering free short courses in caregiving to the Filipino male and female wards temporarily staying at the Consulate. –END-
Vice-Consul Alfred Guiang with HATC administrators, faculty members, and graduates
at the 10th Commencement Exercises held on 22 February at Address Al Hamra Hotel.
