Many of us simply sat around our basketball courts, hoping and waiting for a college education we could not afford. For a job we could not get. For a better future for ourselves, and our families that we always dreamed about. Until we realized, it would never come if we sat there alone.

At one point it was anticipated that the membership of this organization may reduce in the coming years, but instead, it increases to 1,002 from 982 last 2016. This is because of the SIMAG Welding Training Center in which hundreds of out-of-school youth are waiting for the scholarship. Unfortunately, only 71 were able to trained this year.