DAVAO CITY—The new administration of the Compostela Valley province has maintained its group of scholars, who are out-of-school youth (OSY), in its bid to increase the number of the employed.
When first-term Gov. Jayvee Tyron L. Uy handed out a set of school supplies to the scholars, it also signaled his intention to continue the program his father, the former Gov. Arturo Uy, started.
On Wednesday the younger Uy distributed school supplies to the 944 youth scholars at the provincial capitol lobby under the provincial government program, “Balik-Eskwela 2016 Sulong Dunong Scholarship Program.”
Each set consisted of notebooks, pencils, paper, ball pens and reference materials. Uy also promised cash assistance amounting to P1,800 to be released by August.The province’s information office said.
Sulong Dunong is a scholarship program for the active members of the Pag-asa Youth Association of the Philippines Inc. (PYAP), a duly constituted barangay-based organization of the OSY between 15 and 24 years old. They are also active clients of the Department of Social Welfare and Development.
Uy challenged the scholars “to prove their worth, discover your potentials and become better citizens in the community.”
“I would also like to reduce the number of OSY, and to reduce the number of dropouts, that is why we have this program,” he said.
He added that the province assisted 600 OSY in the earlier batch, “but now we are close to 1,000.”
“As the new father of the province, I have only one advice to all of you: I want you to take good care of these and we will show our parents that we are trying our best in school,” he said.