Cadiz City Mayor Patrick Escalante assisted by CSWD Officer Elena Serenias distributed P1.7 million to 487 family-beneficiaries from Barangay Luna for the “Pantawid, Pamilyang Pilipino Program” dubbed as 4Ps at Multi-Purpose building last January 5, 2011. This is the second batch of distribution for the month of September to December 2010.
4Ps is a flagship poverty alleviation program that provides conditional cash grants to extremely poor households with children from zero to 14 years old for 5 years. The program was jointly sponsored by the Dept of Health (DOH), Dep-ed, DILG, NAP-C, Land Bank of the Phil., NNC and DSWD.
Mayor Escalante urged the recipients to diligently follow the terms and conditions of the program and to spend the money wisely. The first batch of disbursement amounting to P4, 547,000.00 for the month of January to August 2010 was released last December 22, 2010, the mayor said.
Under the program the beneficiaries may avail of P6, 000 for health and nutrition package per year or P500.00 per month, 3, 000 for educational assistance for 10 months or P300.00 per month for each child for 5 years in a quarterly basis provided they will follow the conditions set by the program. A family with 3 children may avail P1, 500.00 every month for their health and nutrition or P15, 000.00 per year as long as long as they comply with the conditionality.
According to the CSWD officer Elena Serenias the National Household Targeting System conducted a survey and that out of the 22 barangays, Brgy. Luna was identified as the recipient of the program having the households with the poorest of the poor.
The conditions set by the program were as follows: pregnant mother should have a regular pre-natal and post natal check up, parents should attend the Responsible Parenthood Class, Mother’s Class, Parent Effectiveness Seminars, children aged from 3-5 are required to attend pre-school class and deworming for every 5 months while 6-14 years old are required to enroll in elementary and high school with 85% attendance. The DSWD and the advisory council will monitor the compliance of the recipients.
Noncompliance of the said conditions will result to suspension and eventually cancellation from the list of beneficiaries, Ms Serenias said./*
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