CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Misamis Oriental, Mar. 23 (PIA) --- President Benigno S. Aquino III graced, today, the awarding of social services grants to beneficiaries in Northern Mindanao.
The event was held at the Oro Christian Grace School in Barangay Macasandig, this city, where recipients of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) programs received assistance and grants.
These social programs included the Self-Employment Assistance-Kaunlaran (SEA-K), Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), and the Social Pension for Indigent Senior Citizens.
At least seven (7) associations were awarded with checks with amounts ranging from P100,000 to P150,000 under the SEA-K program, a livelihood and capability building program aimed at enabling the poor to have access to credit and promote entrepreneurship, namely:
The Pearl SKA in Kadingilan, Bukidnon, Generosity SKA in Baroy, Lanao del Norte, Kauswagan SKA in Magsaysay, Misamis Oriental, Odiongan SKA in Odiongan, Gingoog City, and Amethyst SKA in Kadingilan, Bukidnon received P150,000 each while the Manobo-Talaandig SKA and the Kinamatta SKA both from Maramag, Bukidnon got P125,000 and P100,000, respectively.
A total of P148,228,847.59 has been released to 1,378 associations or 33,803 SEA-K beneficiaries all over region 10 as of February 2011.
Misamis Oriental posted the biggest number of associations with 444, followed by Bukidnon with 291, Misamis Occidental with 280, Lanao del Norte with 196, Camiguin with 114, and Cagayan de Oro City with 53.
Moreover, twenty (20) recipients were also awarded with 4Ps cash cards of which ten were from Barangay Patag while the remaining half came from Barangay Bulua, this city.
The 4Ps is a poverty reduction and social development strategy of the national government that provides conditional cash grants to extremely poor households to improve their health nutrition and education.
As of March 2011, a total of P974,392,152 has been released to 88,332 4Ps beneficiaries in region 10.
Of these beneficiaries, 41,586 came from Lanao del Norte, 15,336 from Misamis Occidental, 4,111 from Misamis Oriental, 601 from Camiguin, 18,337 from Bukidnon, 2,663 from Cagayan de Oro City, 1,131 from Iligan City, and 4,567 from Tangub City.
In addition, 14 indigent senior citizens from Misamis Oriental were likewise given pensions, namely: Rosenda Labor, Guillermo Padigos, Isabelo Apdian, Lucia Dadang, Crispina Pacala, Ernesto Lorono, Abundia Ramos, Carmela Ajonan, Silvestra Silao, Claro Bagatcholon, Condrado Dotdot, Rofina Lomocso, Elesia Estrada and Clementino Lorono.
A realization of Republic Act 9994, the Social Pension for Indigent Senior Citizens provides a monthly subsidy of P500.00 to sickly and disabled senior citizens whose ages are 77 and above to improve their living condition and augment their capacity to meet their daily subsistence and medical requirements.
As of March 16, 2011, about 1,991 senior citizens have been validated for awarding of social pension while a total of 10, 097 are yet to be validated in the region. (Apipa Bagumbaran/PIA-10)
That's a lot of awards. Wew! Thank God the President has noticed our province. May he continue helping the people in uplifting this ever-aggravating poverty in the country.
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