3,549 scholars receive stipend

AT LEAST 3,549 scholars from Liloan town received their scholarship grants for the second semester during ceremonies held on Friday, March 1.

Liloan Mayor Christina Frasco said the Municipal Government had allocated P20 million this year for the scholarshap program initiated in 2008 by her husband, then mayor Duke Frasco.

In last Friday’s distribution, Sean, a senior high school student, was thankful for the releasing on that day.

“For two days, I was really worried because I didn’t have my transportation and food allowance. And then the announcement came. Indeed, God works in mysterious ways and in this case, He worked through the Municipal Government,” Sean said.

Over the years, the scholarship program has produced teachers, engineers, doctors, accountants and other professional workers, who now contribute to Liloan’s growing economy and populace of skilled professionals.

The scholarship program started with a budget of P400,000 and with 48 scholars.

“We started this scholarship program with the belief that education is the best way out of poverty. In Liloan, education has been and will always be on top of our priorities,” said Duke Frasco, former commissioner of the Cebu Port Authority.

His accomplishments in the scholarship program, which grew to serve more than 6,000 scholars and a budget of P15 million three years ago, was one of the reasons Frasco was the only Cebuano who received the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines award in 2014 for the field of public administration.

Many of the scholars are enrolled in various private colleges and universities in Cebu.

The mother of one of the scholars publicly thanked the Frasco couple for the program, which she said is very helpful to her, considering that her eldest child is taking up medicine in one of the private universities in Cebu. (PR)

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