Indigent students avail of scholarship program

ELIAKIM Cantunao of Toledo City, southern Cebu, works as a motorcycle driver to help his family after losing his father recently.

Now on his second year of an education course at the University of Visayas (UV), Cantunao is one of several students under the Capitol’s Paglaum Scholarship program.

He is joined by Charry Mae Antonio of Liloan town who is studying Hospitality Management at the Cebu Technological University (CTU)–Danao.

The Paglaum scholars receive free tuition for government schools, while students enrolled in private schools get P10,000 for their tuition and a P1,500 monthly allowance.

The Paglaum Scholarship program has 679 students from Cebu’s seven districts. /Gerard Vincent Francisco, USJ-R Intern

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