PGMA to give cash aid to poor families in Antique town
SAN JOSE, Antique – President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will award cash subsidies to 522 poor families in Valderrama, Antique in the amount of P1,213,600.00 during her visit at Barangay Boroc-boroc to inaugurate the P4.450 million housing project this coming Thursday, April 23.
Cash subsidies is a program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development under the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) in which 5 towns in the province where identified as beneficiaries. The program implementation started in 2008, the first release was given to beneficiaries in December last year.
Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program is a poverty reduction strategy that provide grants to extremely poor households to improve their health, nutrition and education particularly children aged 0-14 years.
PGMA has allocated the total amount of P44,315,700.00 in the province including the release during the first quarter of 2008 amounting to 24,008,000.00. The issuance of cash subsidies in Borocboroc kicks off the second cash grants for the province amounted to P20,307,700.00 for 10,510 beneficiaries in 173 barangays.
The beneficiaries in Borocboroc and its neighboring barangays will receive the following: Borocboroc with 89 families to get P179,600; Bunsod with 75 families to have P148,800.00, Cansilayan with 43 beneficiairies to get P83,800.00 Lublub with 24 families to have P235,000.00; Manlacbo with 128 families to have P243,800 and Pandanan with 163 families to receive P322,600.00
To continuously receive the cash subsidies, the family beneficiaries should comply with the conditions of the program which include regular attendance of children in school, children continue to receive health care check ups/packages from the health centers like vaccinations, pregnant women must receive pre and post natal care and be attended during child birth by a skilled health professional and parents must attend responsible parenthood seminars, mothers classes and parent effectiveness sessions.
A household – beneficiary can receive as much as P1,400 for a maximum of 3 children that includes P500 per month for nutrition and health expenses and 300 per month per child with a maximum of three children per household for education expenses.