Minglanilla, San Fernando join govt’s 4 Ps program

CEBU, Philippines -  The municipalities of Minglanilla and San Fernando are among the towns in Cebu to enter into 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.

Other towns include Consolacion, Liloan, and Compostela which also signed the agreement on 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.

Kerwin Macopia, the regional information officer for the NHTS-PR, said the agreement 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 children and their pregnant mothers can go to comply the conditions of the grant.

Aileen Lariba, the DSWD information officer of 4P’s, also said the responsibilities of both the DSWD, and the local government units, 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 the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino 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, she added.

With Set 6 implemented, another 21,000 households in the region 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 said 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.  (FREEMAN)