The Banilad Center for Professional Development (BCPD) is a technical-vocational school that offers programs in hotel and restaurant services for young women with meager financial means.
The institution started in 1992 and received accreditation a year later. In 1994, the school started to link with establishments in the hotel industry for on-the-job training of its students. It was granted a registration certificate by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) for the Dualized Training Program in Food and Beverage Services in 1997. Since then, BCPD has established linkages with more industry partners, trained many women, equipped them with various skills, and empowered them to start their own business or to be gainfully employed in the industry.
Like Anihan, Habihan, MICARS, and Punlaan, the school is also project of the Foundation for Professional Training, Inc. (FPTI), a non-stock, non-profit, non-governmental organization that envisions “women committed to service and human development”.
Being a project of a foundation, students enrolled in BCPD are mostly scholars who pay only half of the tuition fee once they pass the exam. With grants from certain institutions and aid from kind hearts, BCPD is able to provide additional scholarships and discounted fees for its students who come from the lower socio-economic class.