DTI News Updates for August 2016

DTI launches ‘Mentor Me' Program

The DTI VI will kick off its "Mentor Me” Program, a free negosyo (business) seminar consisting of a series of mentoring sessions for existing and budding entrepreneurs, on Wednesday, September 14, 2016.

Hacienda Crafts: from farming to crafting

Christina Gaston of Hacienda Crafts Company

What was supposed to be a livelihood program intended to simply provide additional income to the community of farm workers turned out to be a global business venture for Christina Gaston’s Hacienda Crafts Company in Manapla, Negros Occidental.

PHOTO: DTI VI shares programs to municipal mayors in the region

DTI OIC-Regional Director Rebecca M. Rascon shares the various programs and projects of the Department such as making Negosyo Center’s services available to Overseas Filipino Workers to the municipal mayors in the region during the basic orientation for new and re-elected local chief executives initiated by the Department of the Interior and Local Government on September 2, 2016.

Beware of text scams, public told

The DTI VI is again reminding the public against fraud perpetrated through text messages with the coming of “ber” months. Mobile phone owners would receive text messages informing them of having won raffle prizes worth millions of pesos, but these are just mere hoaxes.