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.