2023-05-01 23:56:46
The director of the DOM, Álvaro O`Byrne, and the Defense Minister, René Francis Merino, congratulated themselves on the success of the EEC, which represents the graduation of 155 women and 495 men in various areas.
Photos: Equilibrium newspaper.
San Salvador. Wilda Madelina Salguero Murcia, is 25 years old; her classmate José Douglas Abarca, 23. Both are part of the first generation of technicians graduated from the School of Specialization for Construction, opened this year throughout the country by the Directorate of Municipal Works (DOM). .
Last Thursday, both young people were part of the group of 650 that received their accreditation in various branches taught at the EEC; Wilda Madelina graduated as an electrician certified by the General Superintendence of Electricity and Telecommunications (SIGET); José Douglas as surveyor.
Originally from the department of Chalatenango, both found in the EEC the opportunity to overcome the economic situation. They are sincere, they confess that it is not that calamities are happening in their family, but the economic situation is not very good either and “every opportunity is good”, reflects the young woman.
“He spends with what is necessary,” summarizes Wilda Madelina, who found out about the opportunity to receive technical training at the specialized school, like José Duglas, through social networks. Since then, they have not stopped until they are able to enroll, study for three months and graduate on April 27.
Wilda has studied until the ninth grade, when she tried to study her high school at a distance, she could not finish because she had to pay for the study and gave up on it to dedicate herself to agriculture with her father, as a bricklayer’s assistant and even tinsmith, a trade that is common in his native Nueva Concepcion.
Now, certified as an electrical technician, she has the opportunity to work with the DOM and do her own jobs, to earn enough income “not to make myself big,” but to help the family, she says.
José Douglas was also interested in this opportunity when he found out from the media news; he incidentally invited his brother to enroll and now they are both graduated as surveying technicians.
He is excited because the opportunity that has been opened to him is unmatched; he knows that he has guaranteed at least six months of work with the DOM. It was worth it for him to sign up and travel 128 kilometers a day on his motorcycle from San José Cancasque to Nueva Concepción (and vice versa), including some five km of dusty streets inaccessible to the traffic of other types of vehicles.
Now he feels ready to take on responsibilities for surveying, road construction, infrastructure staking, and using the program to make plans. José Douglas actually wants to pursue civil engineering, which he left due to his mother’s health issues and hoped to continue this year, even before he had this opportunity.
The DOM has continued to promote the registration of more young people in the EEC, open in each departmental capital of the country, to continue with the new training that will allow youth to participate in the infrastructure development of their places of residence.
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