The Provincial Government of Benguet headed by Governor Dr. Melchor Daguines Diclas, through the Office of the Provincial Social Welfare and Development (OPSWD), distributed a total of P985,000.00 education assistance to a total of 195 Benguet students, in support of their academic journey.
Held on Wednesday, March 26, at the Gov. Ben Palispis Auditorium, each student received P5,0000.00.
The program benefitted students belonging to the indigent families, who applied in the previous months.
The province also has an existing regular student asssitance program where one qualified student from each barangay is being given P20,000.00 annually until graduation. Also, Governor Diclas has recently endorsed more than 1,300 college students as recipients of the Tulong-Dunong Program of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) where each student receives P7,500 worth pf assistance until their graduation.
