Gordon to students: Be part of the Red Cross for your NSTP
PHILIPPINE Red Cross (PRC) Chairman and CEO (chief executive officer) Richard J. Gordon announced that the foremost humanitarian organization continues to partner with higher education institutions (HEIs) to fulfill their mandate for training under the National Service Training Program (NSTP) law.
NSTP is a requirement for graduation for students of baccalaureate degree courses and two-year technical-vocational courses as prescribed by the NSTP law or Republic Act 9163. The current NSTP law aims to motivate, train, organize, and mobilize the youth in military training, improve literacy and numeracy, civic welfare, and other similar endeavors in the service of the nation.
“Ang Philippine Red Cross ay may partnership sa CHED [Commission on Higher Education], kung saan kami ang nagbibigay ng training sa mga kabataan sa first aid, disaster preparedness, at iba pang lifesaving skills,” Gordon elaborated.
In 2018, CHED and PRC entered into a partnership in which CHED encouraged all HEIs to establish a Red Cross Youth organization to promote volunteerism and youth participation in nation-building. Under the partnership, CHED encouraged NSTP enrollees to become members of the Red Cross Youth program.
As the 19th Congress reviewed the NSTP law this year, CHED Chairman Prospero De Vera III once again said that HEIs may continue to work with Red Cross in implementing their mandate under the NSTP law.
Basic lifesaving skills and disaster preparedness are among the training NSTP students can take, the CHED chairman said.
