SOME 54 graduate school students from Don Honorio Ventura State University (DHVSU) and other state colleges received P5,000 cash assistance from Second District Board Member Mylyn Pineda Cayabyab.

The educational assistance aims to help teachers achieve professional growth and economic advancement through the completion of their graduate school degrees.

The program is a partnership with DHVSU, which helped facilitate the application of deserving students.

Under the program, students from the board member’s political jurisdictions of Santa Rita, Lubao, Sasmuan, Floridablanca and Porac may avail themselves of the program.

Students with satisfactory grades and those coming from indigent families will be given priority in the selection.

For 2022, some students from other state universities and colleges were allowed into the program through under limited slots.

DHVSU President Enrique Baking lauded the board member for her initiative, adding that the university welcomes the support she has extended to its students.

He added that DHVSU has a history of collaborating with the board member, emphasizing her role in the establishment of the DHVSU Satellite Campus in Lubao town when the latter was still mayor.