GOOD NEWS! NILAGDAAN NA NI PANGULONG DUTERTE, BILLIONG PESO AYUDA O 4Ps PARA SA MAHIHIRAP NA PILIPINO.

The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) is a human development measure of the national government that provides conditional cash grants to the poorest of the poor, to improve the health, nutrition, and the education of children aged 0-18. It is patterned after the conditional cash transfer (CCT) schemes in Latin American and African countries, which have lifted millions of people around the world from poverty.

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is the lead government agency of the 4Ps.

The 4Ps has dual objectives as the flagship poverty alleviation program of the Aquino administration:

social assistance, giving monetary support to extremely poor families to respond to their immediate needs; and

social development, breaking the intergenerational poverty cycle by investing in the health and education of poor children through programs such as:

health check-ups for pregnant women and children aged 0 to 5;

deworming of schoolchildren aged 6 to 14;

enrollment of children in daycare, elementary, and secondary schools; and

family development sessions.

The 4Ps also helps the Philippine government fulfill its commitment to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)—specifically in eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, in achieving universal primary education, in promoting gender equality, in reducing child mortality, and in improving maternal health care.