Poor students of Eastern Samar to avail government assistance
By SAMMY CANDIDO (PIA Eastern
Samar)
March 29, 2007
BORONGAN, Eastern
Samar – A sizeable amount of educational assistance awaits some poor
but deserving students in the province. Under the Special Program of
Employment for Students (SPES), the provincial government of
Eastern Samar,
through the efforts of Governor Ben P. Evardone, allotted some
P250,000.00 for some 130 students-beneficiaries.
According to
provincial Public Employment Service Office Manager Crescentia
Quitorio, these students will be taken in under the program starting
April until May to render various office works at the provincial
capitol which will entitle them to compensations. As of this writing,
45 students are already assured of extra income this summer vacation,
having passed the screening conducted by respective school
administration committees of the Eastern Samar State University Campus
of Guiuan, Salcedo, and Can-avid as sanctioned by the provincial
government.
Some 85 slots more up
for grabs as more student-applicants continue to troop to the capitol
to seek admission to the summer jobs project, PESO manager Quitorio
stressed that the hiring of additional students, this time, will be
opened to applicants coming directly from the 23 municipalities of the
province and will be done on a first-come-first-serve basis. Quitorio
also revealed that the funding for the program was forged through a
sharing scheme wherein 40% will be borne by the Department of Labor
and Employment, while the provincial government shoulders the
remaining 60 percent.
Meanwhile, Gov.
Evardone encourages students to personally apply sans their parents
beside them. This, he said, is for them to develop self-reliance and a
genuine appreciation of work.
The SPES is
anchored on the Arroyo administration’s thrust of providing working
opportunities to underprivileged students thereby easing up tuition
fees burden.