Billy presenting a certificate to one of the participants of the body therapy course.
KENINGAU: Director of Human Resource Development Department (HRD), Billy Yumbod has requested that community leaders, including the leaders of Barisan Nasional (BN) be allowed to ask the government to provide more allocation in the department’s efforts to expand its services to the people of the state.
He said so far the HRD has been relentless in providing skills training to enable the people to generate more income to lift them out of poverty.
“The concept adopted by the department is to go to the ground and organize courses and training for the villagers in order to gain the skills to generate income,” he said when closing the Body Treatment Therapy course held at the Pensiangan Regional Library here yesterday.
He is confident that with more financial provisions the people in rural areas of the state can acquire skills and improve their standard of living and economy.
Billy said that since the HRD was established in the state over the past 25 years, it has provided many valuable services to the people in which the responsibility of the department is to conduct courses and training to help the villagers become self-sufficient through the knowledge given to them.
He said the body treatment therapy course was hard to find in the state, adding that the lucky participants who attended the course can benefit by opening a business and community service.
“The participants can open a therapy business at home or mobile services that do not require a license unless they conduct business in the open, then they need to get a business license,” he said.
Billy also reminded participants not to misuse the services and that the HRD does not encourage illegal business services.
Besides benefiting from gaining therapy skills, they also increase their skills by learning about physiology, he said.
He believes that through the skills in both these areas, it would be able to generate more income for the people. Customers would not doubt their skills as they received certificates to prove that they have knowledge on proper techniques when doing body therapy treatment.
“The program conducted by the HRD will be expanded to all the districts in the state with skill courses that can provide benefits to rural communities.
“For me, the department is also the first institution in the state that has been striving to nurture successful human capital up till today and I am confident that more people will benefit from the skills training offered by the HRD in future,” he said.
The 10-day course organized by Pensiangan Puteri Umno in collaboration with the state HRD was participated by 20 people from the area.
Also present at the event was Pensiangan Umno information chief, Sakim Ibrahim representing the Pensiangan Umno Chief, Datuk Abdul Ghani Mohd Yassin; representative of Puteri Umno Chief, Sarah Lakadan; Director of Green Bay Services, Sabdin Noordin and course instructor, Roseline Sapai.