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President Arroyo supports DSWD's education program for 350 high school students
Released 8/22/2007
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has allocated P5.5 million from the President’s Social Fund (PSF) to finance the PGMA Educational Assistance Program (PGMA-EAP) being undertaken by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
Social Welfare and Development Secretary Esperanza I. Cabral said there are 350 high school students who are beneficiaries of the educational assistance which will continue until 2010.
Of the student-beneficiaries, 100 are from Payatas, Quezon City while 250 come from Regions V (Bicol), VI (Western Visayas), VIII (Eastern Visayas) and IX (Western Mindanao or Zamboanga Peninsula).
Meanwhile, DSWD Assistant Secretary Ruel G. Lucentales received recently the amount of P2.25 million from Undersecretary Charito Eliger, Deputy Director General of the Presidential Management Staff (PMS). The amount represents the PSF assistance for the 350 students for school year 2007-2008.
“I thank the President for her support to this educational assistance program. With this funding support, poor but deserving youth are given the opportunity to continue their education,” Secretary Cabral said.
Under the PGMA-EAP, each high school student is given P1,000 monthly allowance for the 10-month school year. The amount covers school fees, transportation, books and other miscellaneous expenses. The allowances will be released in four tranches at P2,500 each tranche.
Secretary Cabral said that the beneficiaries from Regions VI, VIII and IX were chosen because they come from areas with the highest reported number of out-of-school youth.
She added that those from Region V were selected because they were the most affected by the typhoons that hit the Bicol Region last year.
The educational assistance for the Payatas children, on the other hand, is part of the continuing commitment of the President to help the victims of the trashslide tragedy on July 10, 2001.
The Department of Education (DepEd) and concerned local government units are also involved in the implementation of the program.
The DSWD said the parents of the children also play important roles in the program by ensuring the daily attendance of the children, providing moral and academic support, values formation and attending meetings and other activities related to the project.
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