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NMC non-formal education makes headway
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Posted on Dec 02 1998
Close to 50 people have completed their non-formal financial management course at the Northern Marianas College.
The college’s Home Economics Department is holding money-management lessons to espouse family savings, according to a preliminary copy of its report for 1998.
Led by Kathy Pohl and Floria James, the department works closely with the Division of Youth Services and help shelters, which refer participants to the course.
An arrangement has been finalized with DYS to allow for access to its wards so that they might learn the rudiments of counseling, housekeeping and cooking by taking the course.
The report says participants from Tinian have learned to repair torn but reusable clothes, and this has helped them to realize some savings.
The department has received letters from participants who informed that they had made serious consideration of going into sewing business, the report adds.
Participants from Rota, who were trained to make ornaments, also had shown promise of being able to go on commercial venture, it says.
The Home Economics Department began in 1987 under federal funding.
Up to 30 people have so far completed a non-formal parenting course in which participants were trained to dispense counsel on family relations to those from varied ethnic backgrounds.
