Dualtech started in Manila in 1982 as a social development project to help alleviate the widespread poverty in the Philippines through vocational education and training programs adapting the German Dual Training System to local conditions. In 1991, a similar project was initiated in Canlubang, an agricultural estate turned into industrial use in the town of Calamba in the province of Laguna, located south of Manila which mission is stated above.

WHAT WE DO

We train:

• High-school graduates to be employed by partners
• Industrial workers sent to be upgraded or re-trained
• Supervisors and engineers to be equipped as trainers

We partner with:

• Over 100 manufacturing and service companies
• More than 300 high schools who refer trainees
• Friends and Foundations who provide help

We help reduce poverty:

• As we enroll boys from poor families
• Provide scholarship or assistance
• Get graduates employed

We ask people and firms to cooperate:

• In-plant training venue
• Professorial Chairs
• Scholarships
• Donations
• Grants

We adopt Dual Training:

• Two learning venues: School and Industry
• Training Plan jointly developed by Dualtech and Partner
• Course run for 24 months, the first 6 months in-school, the next
• 18 months 1 day in-school, 5 days in the factory

We emphasize Personal Formation:

• Tutors talk to every boy every month about life and all he learns
• Advisers are assigned to classes to assist in their academic need
• Our chaplains come to say Holy Mass and hear confessions

We accept for enrollment:

• 100 trainees every month, 50 in each school,
• Single male students, 16-22 years of age, passed high school
• Qualified through written examination and interview
• Had parents or guardians visit the admission office