CATARMAN, NORTHERN SAMAR — In line with its developmental program for the youth, the provincial government of Northern Samar, through the Provincial Youth and Development Office (PYDO), conducted recently ad Youth Entrepreneurship Forum to enjoin young adults and fresh graduates to join Northern Samar’s initiative in nation-building through business education.
The activity aimed to help the youth develop innovative ideas with the help of business experts and mentors, develop entrepreneurial skills and inspire and empower young entrepreneurs in Northern Samar to pursue their business aspirations and achieve entrepreneurial success.
It also introduces to the youth the programs and services of different agencies related to business and entrepreneurship and establish business linkages.
For the local different youth development officers (LYDO) and other youth groups, it also opened opportunities to share their updates and concerns regarding their different groups and organizations in terms of youth entrepreneurship.
INNOVATIVE IDEAS
Gracing the event as resource speaker, Mr. Emil Nicolas Ongchuan II, owner and chief-executive-officer of the popular dessert concept group known as The Lost Bread, shared his experience as a young entrepreneur on how and when his business started and how he had come up with innovative ideas to cope with unavoidable losses in his business.
Ongchuan likewise shared strategies for young entrepreneurs to keep up with the constant changes in the world and about what to avoid when starting their own business venture.
Among the other presentors in the forum were Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) provincial director Engr. Zosimo De Asis, trade and industry development specialist and Youth Entrepreneurship Program (YEP) focal person Ralph Delizon, and Department of Science and Technology provincial focal representative in Northern Samar Raymund Xavier Naboya.