DSWD-7: 30 financially challenged students in Cebu to get ‘summer jobs’ as office interns

DSWD-7’S Kerwin Macopia |fo7.DSWD.gov.ph

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Thirty senior high school and college financially-challenged students in Cebu will have a chance to earn extra cash for their daily needs this summer through the Government Internship Program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).

Kerwin Macopia said they, however, were still evaluating the 100 applications that they received from Cebu for the summer internship program.

Macopia said that 30 would be chosen among the 100 applicants and they would start to work as interns of government offices in Cebu starting April 15 until May 28.

He also said that for Central Visayas, the DSWD-7 had only 320 slots for the internship program with Cebu getting 30 of those slots.

He said that this internship program would aim to help financially challenged students with the interns getting paid 75 percent of the wage rate in the region that they would be accepted.

These students that were hired belonged to the families with income below the poverty threshold, and they should be 18 to 25 years old.

Leah Quintana, the Information Officer of the DSWD in Central Visayas (DSWD – 7), also said that the money earned from the internship program could also be used for the student’s studies. 

Macopia said that the interns, who had been accepted, would be assigned in a specific office and specific department where they would help the staff in doing office work./dbs