An Waray committed to have more scholars

TACLOBAN CITY – The An Waray party-list is committed to have more scholars and keep on adding more.

A total of 857 scholars that is part of the 1,500 total number of scholarship beneficiaries of the An Waray party-list scholarship grant program from Tacloban city and Leyte personally recieved their scholarship checks held at the Leyte Normal University Human Resource Development Center.

Jude Acidre, regional coordinator of the party-list group, said that at present there are 4,000 students throughout the region who are benefiting the scholarship program of the An Waray party-list and they are targeting to have 10,000 student beneficiaries by the end of their present term.

For this year, the An Waray party-list will be adding 1,300 students as scholar-beneficiaries.

“I know that this is not an easy job, but this is our testimony in our commitment to education,” Acidre said.

“This is our part in helping people especially students to have a better and brighter future not just for them but for their future children,” Acidre added.

He added that even with the small amount that the party-list group is providing to their scholars that is mainly used for paying their tuition fees, they are still hoping that said amount will pave way for the students to finish their chosen degree and have better jobs.

Acidre also added that unlike other scholarship program, the scholarship grant of the An Waray does not require their beneficiaries to pay them back.

“What we ask for you is to “pay it forward” to look at what is right ahead of you by serving your community when you finished your degree,” Acidre , in his speech,stressed.

Among scholars who were present during the distribution of checks were students from the Leyte Normal University, University of the Philippines Tacloban-Visayas Campus, Visayas State University while others are students of private schools from this city and here in Leyte.

The distribution of check to their scholars was led by no less Representative Florencio “Bem” Noel who provided time to personally meet their scholars.The scholarship grants is among the two major projects of the An Waray party-list in this region which is to help less privileged students from the six provinces by sending them to schools with funds from the Priority Development Fund of the two congresmen of the An Waray party-list.

Aside from the scholarship program, the party-list group also conducts medical and surgical missions throughout the region and in selected areas in the country with the help of private medical organizations and the respective local government units. (ROEL AMAZONA)