5 mayors ink pact for Pantawid

CEBU, Philippines - Five out of 24  town mayors and their representatives in Central Visayas signed a memorandum of agreement with the Department of Social Welfare and Development-7 as co-partners in the implementation of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program Set 6 recently.

For Cebu, the towns of Consolacion, Minglanilla, Liloan, San Fernando and Compostela signed the said agreement.

Of the 24 local chief executives, 17 of them are from Bohol towns, five from Cebu and two from Siquijor.

Aileen Lariba, DSWD information officer, said in a statement released by the Philippine Information Agency-7 that the signing of the MOA cited the responsibilities of both the DSWD and the local government units concerned, upon which the acceptance of the government’s flagship conditional cash transfer program puts on their shoulders the corresponding tasks to get the program rolling.

Lariba said that the PPP program provides cash grants to poor households with pregnant women and children 0-14 years old. But the cash grant can only be obtained when the household comply with the conditions of the program: health, nutrition and education.

With Set 6 implementation, another 21,000 households in Central Visayas will receive monthly grants of P500 each for health and nutrition and P300 for every child in school or a maximum of P900 for education.

Lariba added that a household beneficiary of at least three kids in school can get P1,400 per month, for as long as they regularly comply with the conditions.

The 24 towns in the set 6 beneficiaries of the national government’s implementation of conditional cash grants to poor families as determined by the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Alleviation.

Under the agreement, it obligates the national government grants for identified LGU beneficiaries as they assume the responsibility of making sure that there are schools and rural health centers where the children and their pregnant mothers can go to comply the conditions of the grant. —/JPM (FREEMAN)