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MANILA, Philippines?Thirty Filipino caregivers are scheduled to leave for Japan under the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership agreement on the movement of natural persons-school track on September 27, the Japanese embassy said Friday.
In a statement, the embassy said Japanese Ambassador Makoto Katsura led the send-off ceremony for the Filipinos bound for caregiver schools in Japan at the HEDC Building in University of the Philippines-Diliman.
?Under the school track scheme, Filipino candidate caregivers will take a two- to four-year school course. All candidates will undergo six-month Japanese language training. Thereafter, they will enroll in caregiver schools in Japan and will be qualified as certified care workers upon completion of the course,? the embassy said.
JPEPA itself has been effective since December 11, 2008.
