Monday, January 05, 2009 3T families to get P500 each
ABOUT 3,000 households from 10 barangays in Cebu City will be covered by the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) 7 Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps).
The identified beneficiaries are from Barangays Tejero, T. Padilla, Sawang Calero, Duljo Fatima, Inayawan, Mambaling, Kalunasan, Sudlon I and II and Tagbao.
4Ps is a poverty reduction strategy of the government that provides conditional cash transfer to extremely poor households to allow members of the family to meet certain human development goals to break the poverty cycle.
This aims to address issues on low educational achievement, high maternal and infant mortality rate, high malnutirition rate and high rate of child labor among the poor.
It offers a cash grant for at most five years to the beneficiaries at P6,000 a year or P500 a month per household for health and nutritional expenses; P3,000 for one school year or 10 months or P300 per month per child for educational expenses. A household with three qualified children will have a subsidy of P1,400 per month or P15,000 annually as long as they comply with the requirements.
Non-compliance would mean suspension of the cash grants.
Requirements
Among the requirements are—pregnant women must get pre and post natal care and be attended to during child birth by a skilled birth attendant; parents or guardians must attend family planning sessions, mothers’ classes, and parent effectiveness seminars; newly-born to five-year-old children must receive regular preventive health check-ups and vaccines.
Children aged five years old must attend day care classes at least 85 percent of the time, and children aged six to 14 years old must enroll in elementary or high school and attend classes.
