DSWD opens monitoring program for education of 4Ps children

Submitted by Vox Bikol on Thu, 02/12/2015 - 04:42

LEGAZPI CITY, Feb. 10 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Bicol field office encouraged existing family-beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps to register their children for monitoring under the education component of the program.

Ryan Marqueses, regional beneficiary data officer of DSWD Bicol, said the selection process is open to all active family-beneficiaries with children aged 3-18 and provide an opportunity for beneficiaries whose child or children no longer attending school or beneficiaries who have not yet completed the maximum of three children per family being monitored by the program.

The open selection allowed beneficiaries of 4Ps to register, add, change, select the child they wanted to be monitored by the program and be provided with necessary assistance.

The program will run from January to March 2015 targeting a total of 389,785 household in Bicol region.

“We also encourage them to register children who are now in high school for them to have a better chance in finishing their studies, enter into college or better opportunity to get a job or get a high income,” he said.

Marqueses added that it is more beneficial to register their children who are in high school since the progam provides cash grant of P500 for education and P500 in health while children beneficiaries who are in elementary are provided with cash grants of P300 for education and P500 for health, per child for a maximum of three children per family.

He explained that the beneficiaries needs to submit a school enrolment certificate signed by school principal or head teacher to their respective municipal or city links assigned in their area. They also need to fill up a form which will be provided by the municipal/city link entailing the basic information of the child to be registered.

Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program is a poverty reduction strategy that provides grants to extremely poor households to improve their health, nutrition and education particularly of children aged 0-18.

In Bicol Region, a total of 375, 511 households benefitted from the said program.  (MAL/GALindio-DSWD5/PIA5)