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By: Rey Anthony Chiu

By the opening of the next school year in June, indigents from 29 towns in Bohol have something to look up to, this as the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) assure them and some 6,343 families of a head-start in their kid’s education.

The more than 6000 families come from 17 towns which are included in the set 6 of the grants, revealed Aileen Lariba, regional information officer of the flagship social service program.

Speaking during the weekly Kapihan sa PIA, Lariba identified the 17 towns as Alburquerque, Antequera, Baclayon, Bilar, Corella, Cortes, Dauis, Dimiao, Garcia Hernandez, Jagna, Loay, Loboc, Maribojoc, Panglao, Sevilla, Sikatuna and Tubigon.

For set 6, Tubigon gets the most number of family beneficiaries at 949, followed by Jagna at 882, Garcia Hernandez (469), Bilar (465) and Dimiao (435), according to the list which Lariba provided.

The 17 towns up Bohol’s town count as beneficiaries for this set to 29.

Also familiarly known in countries across the globe as conditional cash transfer, the 4Ps picks out through the National Household Targeting System (NHTS) the country’s poorest of the poor to selectively focus on the government assistance with attached conditions for compliance on their health and education.

Implemented by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), the 4Ps allows a family’s three schooling aged kid of 0-14 to get an educational assistance of P300. The parents also are obliged to send their kids to school 85% of the time to continually receive the government support.

Another assistance, some P500 is given to the family who has religiously attended the Family Development Sessions where key resource persons tutor family heads tips on health and nutrition, community living and cooperation.

It may also be recalled that the towns of Alicia, Bien Unido, Buenavista, Carmen, Inabanga, Getafe, Mabini, Pilar, Carlos P Garcia, Trinidad and Ubay were already included in the third set of the 4Ps beneficiaries.

Earlier on, beneficiaries of the towns of Guindulman, Candijay, Clarin, Duero, Lila, San Isidro and Valencia.

4PS also crossed over to Anda, Balilihan, Batuan, Calape, Catigbian, Danao, Loon, Sagbayan, San Miguel and then to Talibon, Tagbilaran City and then Sierra Bullones.

This then puts almost 50,000 poor Boholano families availing of the government assistance.

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