Australians donate equipment to Tagum’s slaughterhouse

TAGUM CITY May 22 - Showing their support to the Community Skills Training Program of the Local Government of Tagum, three Australians personally visited Tagum last May 18 to turn-over an aluminum knife-setter and  cut resistent gloves worth almost one- thousand Australian Dollars (P42,000) to the city’s slaughterhouse located in Tipaz, Barangay Magugpo East.The turn-over coincided with the courtesy call to Tagum City Mayor Rey T. Uy at Tagum City’s Motorpool facility.

Mayor Uy extended his gratitude to the visiting Australians for giving the said equipment, noting that this will be a big help for the butchers of the city. The three visiting Australians are connected with several meat companies in their country.

Allison Silburn, the Labour Manager of Northern International, disclosed in an interview that this one way of extending their full support to the local government’s pursuit in equipping its butchers with the necessary skills enough for them to be competitive to work in Australia.

Other Australians who joined Miss Silburn are Dean Tilson of Teys Bro Austalia and Mike Smith of Yangwha Global.

Aside from donating equipment, they are also in town to scout potential butchers to work for their respective companies.

The city government under the leadership of Mayor Uy has been very serious in its skills training program for butchers—the thing which gained admiration from the visiting Australians. Graduates of the said program were then hired by Australian meat companies.

“We had already deployed Tagum City workers in Australia and they have been excellent in their job, they are very nice people, they work hard and they are very loyal,” Silburn stressed.

Silburn said she is looking forward that more workers from Tagum will be able to work in their company in Australia. (Louie Lapat/Edwin of CIO Tagum)