Ms. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo congratulates on her arrival in Libacao, Aklan Mayor Charito Navarosa. At her back is DENR Secretary Lito Atienza.
(RONALD NAVARRO/PCPO/ PNS)
Ms. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo should have witnessed the beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pampamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) of Libacao town get their first cash grants through Automated Teller Machine (ATM) specially installed by the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) in Libacao, Aklan for the purpose.
But a strong tornado struck in Libacao the night before. It spoiled the first-of-a-kind experience for them. All the same, they got their cash grants from the President during her first-ever visit to this hinterland town in Aklan on August 7.
The 4Ps is a poverty reduction strategy that grants cash to extremely poor households to improve their health, nutrition and education particularly of children aged 0-14 years.
Ms. Arroyo led in the distribution of cash grants to the 2,602 household beneficiaries from 24 barangays with cash grants amounting to P3,842,000 covering sub- sidies for the months of May and June. The release has started on July 22 this year to a total of 806 household beneficiaries coming from 12 barangays amounting to P1,195,100. The remaining 1,796 beneficiaries in 12 barangays received their cash subsidies amounting to P2,645,900 last Friday, August 7.
Under the program, a household beneficiary can receive as much as P1,400 for a maximum of three children that includes P500/month for nutrition and health expenses and P300/month per child with a maximum of three children per household for educational expenses.
Rowena Ladate, one of the beneficiaries of 4Ps of Barangay Alfonso VII said the program is a big blessing to her family. Tearful but happy, she said this will augment her family’s needs, having four small children. As a beneficiary, she will get P500 per month and P300 each for her three children of school age.
Juvy Agustin of Sebalew, Libacao has a three-week old baby left at home as she waited for her turn to get her cash grant under the hot sun. Married at 18, she has five kids already at 29, the eldest being 11 years old. With misty eye she expressed thanks to this program of Ms. Arroyo, as this will help her family a lot. Her husband, she said, has no permanent job.
Most of the benefi-ciaries are mothers, who said that their children are regular schoolgoers, one condition that will enable them to continuously receive the cash grants within five years.
Besides cash distribution for 4Ps, the President also inaugurated the 1,280 lineal meter River Revetment Wall Resting on cut-off wall project at Poblacion, LIbacao. The project costs P40 million from LOGOFIND Libacao LGU borrowed from World Bank. Project started on June 1, 2007 but Typhoon Frank damaged the initial constructed structure. It was continued without additional costs and was completed on June l5, 2009.
Seven POs from various Aklan munici-palities also received checks for DENR’S Upland Development Program amounting to a total of P2,596,626.20.
DENR Sec. Lito Atienza gave a briefing on solid Waste Management, while Climate Change Presidential Adviser Sec. Heherson Alvarez briefed on Climate Change.
Libacao Mayor Charito Navarrosa, welcomed PGMA and party and thanked her for gracing Libacao with the first-ever Presidential visit. He also thanked the President for including Libacao as one of the beneficiaries of her flagship program, the 4Ps. (PIA/Venus G. Villanueva)/MP
Ms. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo should have witnessed the beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pampamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) of Libacao town get their first cash grants through Automated Teller Machine (ATM) specially installed by the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) in Libacao, Aklan for the purpose.
But a strong tornado struck in Libacao the night before. It spoiled the first-of-a-kind experience for them. All the same, they got their cash grants from the President during her first-ever visit to this hinterland town in Aklan on August 7.
The 4Ps is a poverty reduction strategy that grants cash to extremely poor households to improve their health, nutrition and education particularly of children aged 0-14 years.
Ms. Arroyo led in the distribution of cash grants to the 2,602 household beneficiaries from 24 barangays with cash grants amounting to P3,842,000 covering sub- sidies for the months of May and June. The release has started on July 22 this year to a total of 806 household beneficiaries coming from 12 barangays amounting to P1,195,100. The remaining 1,796 beneficiaries in 12 barangays received their cash subsidies amounting to P2,645,900 last Friday, August 7.
Under the program, a household beneficiary can receive as much as P1,400 for a maximum of three children that includes P500/month for nutrition and health expenses and P300/month per child with a maximum of three children per household for educational expenses.
Rowena Ladate, one of the beneficiaries of 4Ps of Barangay Alfonso VII said the program is a big blessing to her family. Tearful but happy, she said this will augment her family’s needs, having four small children. As a beneficiary, she will get P500 per month and P300 each for her three children of school age.
Juvy Agustin of Sebalew, Libacao has a three-week old baby left at home as she waited for her turn to get her cash grant under the hot sun. Married at 18, she has five kids already at 29, the eldest being 11 years old. With misty eye she expressed thanks to this program of Ms. Arroyo, as this will help her family a lot. Her husband, she said, has no permanent job.
Most of the benefi-ciaries are mothers, who said that their children are regular schoolgoers, one condition that will enable them to continuously receive the cash grants within five years.
Besides cash distribution for 4Ps, the President also inaugurated the 1,280 lineal meter River Revetment Wall Resting on cut-off wall project at Poblacion, LIbacao. The project costs P40 million from LOGOFIND Libacao LGU borrowed from World Bank. Project started on June 1, 2007 but Typhoon Frank damaged the initial constructed structure. It was continued without additional costs and was completed on June l5, 2009.
Seven POs from various Aklan munici-palities also received checks for DENR’S Upland Development Program amounting to a total of P2,596,626.20.
DENR Sec. Lito Atienza gave a briefing on solid Waste Management, while Climate Change Presidential Adviser Sec. Heherson Alvarez briefed on Climate Change.
Libacao Mayor Charito Navarrosa, welcomed PGMA and party and thanked her for gracing Libacao with the first-ever Presidential visit. He also thanked the President for including Libacao as one of the beneficiaries of her flagship program, the 4Ps. (PIA/Venus G. Villanueva)/MP
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