FREE SKILLS TRAINING. MBHTE-TESD Maguindanao Provincial Director Salehk Mangelen (left) and MIPA Minister Melanio Ulama (right) show the memorandum of agreement they inked on Monday (Oct. 4, 2021)) providing free skills training on modern farming technology to 160 IP farmers across the region. The IP scholars will also be provided with allowances and the National Certificate II after the training. (Photo courtesy of Bangsamoro Information Office - BARMM) COTABATO CITY - A total of 160 members of indigenous peoples (IPs) across the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) are set to benefit from free skills training on modern agriculture techniques. This, after the BARMM's Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education - Technical Education Skills Development (MBHTE-TESD) and the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples' Affairs (MIPA) agreed to provide free skills training for IPs in the region. "This intends to help the IPs chosen for the programs impart what they