STARS PROJECT: Skills Trainings Advocating Reliance and Self-Employment Program

Included in the Provincial budget for 2009, the STARS project is a brainchild project of the Bohol Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) and the Provincial SMED Council. The project desires to conduct a Skills Training Program that will ultimately provide self-employment opportunities to capable and qualified individuals who are unemployed in the 1,109 barangays in the province and expected to generate 22,180 self-employment opportunities. Click the links below  for details: Calendar Of Activites For July Monthly Report for June 2013 (CRID-Bohol)  ...

BCCI coordinates, participates in the Sandugo Showcase ’08

BCCI coordinated and participated in the 20th Sandugo Regional Product & Raw Material Showcase held last July 23-24, 2008 at the activity center of the Island City Mall. Highlighted in the activity was the SME day where DTI-SMEDSEP Programs and Bohol Food Safety Team were launched. There were talk shows on “Uplifting lives through strategic partnership” and “Food Safety Movements & its importance to Bohol’s Tourism industry” where President Norris was one of the...

Free Medical, Dental mission for BDRC inmates

The Bohol Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI), together with the Provincial Government of Bohol, Rotary Club of Tagbilaran, and Fely’s Jewelry and Pawnshop sponsored a free medical and dental mission last October 5, 2007 for the inmates of the Bohol Detention & Rehabilitation Center (BDRC). A total of 253 inmates, visiting spouses and children benefited the free medical and dental clinic, 183 medical patients and 70 were dental patients. After the half day event , Rotary Club President Louella “Baby” Bantol, BCCI President Norris Oculam and BBCI Trustee Dinah Ramiro dared to go inside the Prison Compound, a maximum security area without hesitation to jam with the band of the BDRC inmates. Rotary Club President Baby Bantol not only did solo numbers but also did duets with several of the inmates as well. It was a day at the BDRC, that both inmates and the distinguished visitors would never...