BOKOD, Benguet – Benguet Caretaker Congressman and Anti-Crime and Terrorism through Community Involvement and Support (ACT-CIS) Party-list Rep. Eric Go Yap disclosed that he will be launching the Youth Assistance Program–Allowance Mo Sagot Ko (YAP-ASK) for the benefit of the over 1,000 recipients of the government’s educational assistance program under the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) coming from the province’s 140 barangays.
Yap, who chairs the powerful House Committee on Appropriations who visited the municipality recently, stated he will make the appropriate representations with the CHED for the recipients of the educational assistance program not to have to go to the bank to withdraw their prescribed assistance and for this to be delivered in their respective barangays with the help of barangay officials and his office staff.
The lawmaker claimed he will make sure the 1,000 recipients of the CHED educational assistance will be equally distributed to the province’s 140 barangays for deserving students from remote villages be given the chance to have access to quality tertiary education in schools in Baguio and Benguet.
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Congressman Yap underscored it will be the benefits of the recipients that will go nearer to them instead of the usual practice of beneficiaries going to the congressional district of lawmakers to fill up forms and undergo the screening process for the said program.
According to him, education should be made readily available and affordable to students living in the remote villages of the province regardless of the number of voters in the said barangays because what matters is that deserving youth must have access to quality education as this can help them and their families move out from the shackles of poverty in the future.
Congressman Yap stipulated that even the enlistment to the YAP-ASK will be part of the facets of his ongoing mobile ‘tulong’ program in every municipality to provide available assistance for the people in the areas where the aid program will be implemented.
The Benguet caretaker congressman is visiting the different municipalities of the province to interact and consult with municipal and barangay officials, concerned sectors and the private sector to get their insights and priority needs for his office and other concerned government agencies to respond to.
He assured local officials and residents in the different municipalities that for as long as he is the province’s caretaker congressman, he will exert extra effort to bring to the grassroots level the basic services from government agencies, aside from ensuring that Benguet will not be left out in the allocations for the implementation of priority development projects to contribute in spurring economic activities in the rural areas.
Congressman Yap asserted that Benguet should be one of the well-developed provinces in the north once all the major development projects that had been put in place, especially in terms of infrastructure, shall have been funded and properly implemented by responsible contractors.
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