A TOTAL of 8,917 families from Indigenous Peoples groups in Western Visayas are being helped by the government through the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program.
Records of the DSWD regional office 6 showed that 2,811 families are in Iloilo; 1,849 in Negros Occidental; 1,763 in Aklan; 1,493 in Capiz; 929 in Antique; and 72 in Guimaras.
Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino program is a human development intervention of the national government that invests in the health and education of poor households, particularly of children aged 0 to 18.
Patterned after the conditional cash transfer scheme implemented in other developing countries, the Pantawid Pamilya provides cash grants to beneficiaries provided that they comply with the set of conditions which they agreed to undertake for an improved wellbeing./dswd6/May Grecia-Rago