An estimated crowd of 4,000 trooped to the ABL Sportscomplex to welcome P-Noy on Tuesday morning, July 11, 2011 in Kalibo, Aklan.
Aklan Governor, Hon. Carlito S. Marquez, Cong. Florencio T. Miraflores and Kalibo Mayor William S. Lachica received His Excellency, Pres. Benigno S. Aquino III. The short program of his visit was held at Augusto B. Legaspi Gymnasium, Capitol Site, Kalibo, Aklan where P-Noy distributed some cash for social services to the poor.
The program included project briefings on: a. Philhealth Cards, b. Supplementary Feeding Program, c. Social Pension for Indigent Senior Citizens, and d. 4P’s by Hon. Corazon Juliano – Soliman (DSWD Secretary). P-Noy distributed Certificates of Land Ownership Award (CLOA) through Hon. Anthony Parungao (DAR USEC); and e. financial support to agricultural projects in Aklan by Dir. Larry Nacionales.
The Supplementary Feeding Program checks were received by the Municipal Mayors with their respective municipal social workers, treasurer and day care officers. The Philhealth Cards were received by rep-resentatives of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, one of whom was Mr. Prosperino I. Necodemus, 66 years old, a farmer from Malinao.
A total of 2.1 million pesos was released for the 5,798 pre-schoolers in seven municipalities of Aklan which are: Balete – P221, 760 for 616 pre-schoolers, Banga – P251,640 for 699 pre-schoolers, Ibajay – P507,960 for 1,411 pre-schoolers, Kalibo – P446,040 for 1,239 pre-schoolers, Lezo – P95,040 for 264 pre-schoolers, Libacao – P509,400 for 1,415 pre-schoolers, and Tangalan – P120,240 for 334 pre-schoolers.
The supplementary feeding program is the provision of food in addition to the regular meals to currently enrolled day care center children. This will be in the form of hot meals as recommended by Food and Nutrition Research Institute to be served during break time to children in day care centers. The beneficiaries of the program are the three-year old and four-year-old children; and those five-year-old children not catered in DepEd but enrolled in day care. This is aimed to augment support for children in day care centers and to improve knowledge, attitude and practices of children enrolled in day care centers, parents and caregivers through intensified nutrition and health education.
There are three municipalities participating in the program which are Kalibo, Makato, and Numancia. They received Social Pension of P280,500 intended for 187 elderly persons. Social pension is the monthly stipend at P500 each to augment the daily subsistence and other medical needs of indigent senior citizens to fulfill the obligation of the government to protect the most vulnerable sector through social protection mandated by Republic Act 9994. For the 1st quarter 2011, the 16 LGU’s in Aklan received the social pension fund. For this quarter, seven LGU documents are being processed.
On Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, a total of P24,000 was released to 14 beneficiaries. Libacao has eight household beneficiaries with a total grant of P12,500 while Madalag has six with a total grant of P11,500. The 4 P’s is the national government’s flagship program for poverty alleviation for the poorest families with children 0-14 years old. It provides conditional cash grants to poor families amounting to P500 a month per household for one year, and P300 a month per child for health and nutrition for a maximum of three (3) children, for 10 months.
In Western Visayas, Pantawid Pamilya is implemented in Aklan, Antique, Capiz, Guimaras, Iloilo and Negros Occidental. It covers 75 municipalities, 11 cities and 173,723 households. The program covers 14 municipalities in Aklan with P105,029,200 released for the 23, 322 households. /MP
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