TUNGAWAN, Zamboanga Sibugay -- For Marvelyn Bosque, the cash grant she receives as beneficiary of the government’s Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Program is a big help for them in sending their children to school.
The 47-year-old mother of three, whose husband is a seasonal farm worker in Barangay Baluran told the Philippine Public Transparency Reporting Project (PPTRP) that the money has “done so much for our children’s needs in school.”
“Dili lang para sa akong pamilya pero kanamong tanan sa kumunidad makita gyud nga ganahan mo na mo-eskwela ang mga bata (Not only for my family but the whole community as well our children have shown greater interest to go to school),” she says.
NEW CORELLA, Davao del Norte -- This is the Banana Republic, literally, with thousands of acres planted with bananas destined for export. Just a 30-minute drive from Tagum City, this third class municipality strives to provide better farm to market-style facilities such as roads and bridges for its 44, 953 residents -- 90 per cent of whom are farmers or their dependents.
