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PMHA scholarships for poor students

BAGUIO CITY (Oct. 14) — Granting scholarship programs to poor deserving students are the innovative way the Philippine Mental Health Association (PMHA) is recognizing the winners for the Search for Mr. and Ms. Kampus Bayani, held last October 1 at the University of Baguio.

According to PMHA Chapter Executive Manager Janet Calado, the scholarship program for this year’s 8 winners is in process.

Now on its 5th year, 16 students had already availed of the program. Donors and benefactors of the program were the Commission on Higher Education, Rotary Club, Monday Afternoon Club, University of Baguio, and Congressional Development Fund of Baguio Rep. Mauricio Domogan, among others.

Winners are as follows: Ms Kampus Bayani – Alphabet Santos and Mr Kampus Bayani – Arnold Ayaoan; 1st runners-up - Michelle Palongdias and Martilino Shale; 2nd runners-up – Jessica Aque and Romualdo Dayrit; 3rd runners-up – Ellen Grace Antonio and Bryan Tagura; 4th runners-up – Jennifer Libuatan and Alizon Relay. Dayrit was granted a special award in the form of a 60 sq. m. lot sponsored by Lovely Mandapat.

In order to sustain the needs of the scholars, one of the activities of the PMHA will be the launching of the Kampus Bayani Trust Fund on November this year. Raising funds for the scholars is a great need, since the program does not cover allowances and other expenses. # Susan C. Aro/PIA Benguet

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“Pabahay Para sa Pamilyang Pilipino” continues

BAGUIO CITY (Oct. 14) — At least 202,702 families all over the country had been a part of the “Pabahay Para sa Pamilyang Pilipino,” a housing program for the poor.

The housing program started in 2003, inclusive of proclaiming 22,600 hectares of disposable public lands as potential sites for socialized housing.

Meanwhile, through its Pag-IBIG Overseas Housing program, overseas Filipino workers could expand their Pag-IBIG membership and provide them the opportunity to acquire their own homes at affordable means.

A total of 12,247 urban poor families from January to October 2003 have availed of housing loans amounting to P529.4-million under the Community Mortgage program. # PIA-CAR

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PhilHealth program benefits 5M families

BAGUIO CITY (Oct. 14) — PhilHealth’s “Universal Family Health Insurance” will benefit about 5 million indigent families in the country. The family insurance program paves the way of helping the poor through social security.

The Departments of Health, Agriculture, Social Welfare and Development, and LGUs will assist punong barangays in identifying qualified indigent families for enrollment into the program.

Beneficiaries will be issued PhilHealth cards paid for or subsidized by the LGUs. The LGUs will secure assistance from the P3-billion fund, half of which will come from the PCSO.

The PhilHealth card includes free or subsidized hospitalization, including room fees, doctor’s fees, medicines, laboratory, x-ray and surgery fees. # PIA-CAR

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Coops receive livelihood fund

TABUK, Kalinga (Oct. 14) — Five multi-purpose cooperatives here received funding assistance from the National Agriculture & Fisheries Council (NAFC) to finance various projects under the Livelihood Enhancement for Agricultural Development (LEAD) program of the government.

NAFC representative Lorenze Macaraig handed the symbolic checks to the Birds of Paradise Coop- Tabuk amounting to P100,000; Babalag MPC- Rizal with P190,000; Sunrise 4-H Club- Rizal with P90,000; Poway Farmers Association- Lubuagan with P120,000; and Antonio Canao MPC- Lubuagan with P150,000.

DA-CAR LEAD coordinator Patricio Ananayo warned that cooperatives that fail to pay back their loans would be blacklisted at the NAFC. They will then be disqualified from future funding assistance.

Ananayo explained that loan payments do not all go to the NAFC. He said 50% goes to the province, 30% to the municipality, and 20% to the region. # Larry Lopez/PIA Kalinga

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Village technology on OTOP

BANGUED, Abra (Oct. 14) — The Village Technology Program of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) has become a very useful mainstay in the implementation of the One Town One Product (OTOP) Program in the province.

Freddie Baroña of the TESDA-Abra Provincial Office said TESDA already started its massive training program in municipalities of Abra. The OTOP program is implemented especially in the towns that adopted the bamboo as their primary product. These include the towns of Bucay, Pidigan, Tayum and La Paz.

Village technology transfer is undertaken to determine the sources of primary products in the province. Special attention is focused in Bucay’s bamboo crafts because this is the model OTOP for Abra. # MTBBeñas /PIA-Abra

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