4Ps help young people realize their dreams - DSWD

By Joelyn G. Baluyut

Sunday 29th of April 2012

SUBIC BAY FREEPORT, Zambales, April 29 (PIA) -- The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) helps youth realize and achieve their dreams.

Thus said Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Region 3 director Adelina Apostol during the signing of Memorandum of Agreement with 27 mayors in Central Luzon for the implementation of the said program in their respective localities. The signing was held in Subic recently.

“I remember one beneficiary when I asked what he wanted to be in the future and he responded that he wanted to be like his parents, a garbage collector. But when he was enrolled in 4Ps, his dream changed and now he gets to study through the help of this program,” Apostol said.

“The program doesn’t only focus on giving money to the poor but it will also make them believe that they could go beyond what they are now, that they have to power to reach for their dreams and live a better life,” she explained.

Apostol also noted that “through the implementation of the 4Ps in each barangay, city and provincial level, the solid partnership between them and the DSWD has been established, and now, we are still continuing this because many people would benefit from the program.”

4Ps is a human development program of the national government that provides conditional cash grants to extremely poor households to improve their health, nutrition and education particularly of infants and children aged 14 years old and below.

Its objectives include Social Assistance which is to provide cash assistance to the poor to alleviate their immediate need (short term poverty alleviation) and Social Development that is to break the intergenerational poverty cycle through investments in human capital. (WLB/JGB-PIA3)