CEBU, Philippines - Over 2,000 beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) claimed their fourth-quarter cash grants last January 19 and January 23 on the second year of its implementation.
The program is a conditional cash grant program wherein each beneficiary household is given P500 per month for health and P300 per month per qualified child for a maximum of three children per household.
The 2,700 beneficiaries this year received a total of P10.6 million.
The set conditions of this program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development include pregnant women getting pre and postnatal care and be attended during childbirth by skilled health personnel; that mothers must attend responsible parenthood sessions, mothers’ classes and parent effectiveness seminars; children zero to five years old must receive regular preventive health checkups and vaccines; children aged three to five years old must attend daycare or pre-school classes at least 85 percent of the time; and children six to 14 years old must enroll in elementary or high school and attend at least 85 percent of the time, and children six to 14 years old must receive deworming pills twice a year.
Approximately 5.1 million were allocated for education at 1.3 million per month from September to December last year and 5.5 million for health at 1.4 million per month for the last quarter of 2009 for the beneficiaries of barangays Kalunasan, Tejero, T. Padilla, Sawang Calero, Duljo Fatima, Tagba-o, Sudlon I, Sudlon II, Inayawan and Mambaling.
It is expected that the beneficiaries from the 10 barangays would transpire into empowered members of their respective families and communities. -/MEEV (FREEMAN NEWS)