Empowering PWD-learners through Project I.W.A.V.E.S.: A Community-based Action Research

John Vincent De La Cruz; Jenny Mae Lagman; Mark Alvin Lazaro

doi:10.55927/ajcs.v4i9.352

Authors

John Vincent De La Cruz Gordon College, Olongapo City
Jenny Mae Lagman Gordon College, Olongapo City
Mark Alvin Lazaro Gordon College, Olongapo City

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55927/ajcs.v4i9.352

Keywords:

Community Extension Program, Hospitality, Tourism, Trainings, Persons with Disabilities

Abstract

The College of Hospitality and Tourism Management of Gordon College offered its community extension program to PWDs as an intervention for the marginalized part of the community. Training sessions were scheduled every Saturday of the week, which started last March 2025 until May 2025. Originally, the Project iWAVES has 15 enrolled trainees – 5 learners with intellectual disability, 5 learners who are deaf, one with ADHD, and four learners with autism. Nine of ten PWD learners passed the NCII for Housekeeping Services. One PWD learner struggled with the butler service competencies. The study recommends to assist the PWD-learners for their future employment, offer a new training program for new set of learners, and widen the reach of the project across region.

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