MARAWI CITY — The Office of the Chief Minister’s Marawi Rehabilitation Program (OCM-MRP) is poised to give one-time educational cash assistance to a total of 3,000 qualified internally displaced students from the Most Affected Area (MAA) of this city.
Application period started on August 19, 2024, and will last until the third week of September. Applicants can submit their forms in person at the MRP’s office located at Hanes Building, Barangay Panggao Saduc.
To qualify for the educational assistance, students must be internally displaced from the MAA, come from a family with an annual income of P80,000 or below, and are enrolled for the 2024-2025 academic year in any secondary or tertiary educational institution, including madaris at the thanawi, mutawassit, or kulliya morit levels.
Those already beneficiaries of other national or local scholarship grants are not eligible for the program. Priority will be given to vulnerable and underprivileged sectors, such as orphans, persons with disabilities, working students, victims of calamities, children of solo parents, children of distressed overseas Filipino workers in 2024, and children of mujahideens. The complete list of documentary requirements is available on MRP’s official Facebook page.
“After a careful and thorough screening of applicants, a total of 1,500 qualified tertiary-level and 1,500 secondary-level IDP students from MAA will receive P10,000 and P5,000 each, respectively,” said Norlailah Nolan Datumolok, MRP’s Information Officer II.
MRP integrated educational assistance into its array of interventions to ensure that students from MAA have access to financial support, helping them continue their education despite the challenges caused by displacement and the 2017 Marawi siege.
“I hope to be approved for this educational cash assistance, as it would help students like me, especially in easing the financial burden on my mother”, said applicant Johaira M. Angad, a second-year college student at Mindanao Institute of Technology.
Aside from this one-time educational cash assistance, the MRP has also been supporting the schools formerly situated in MAA through providing tuition fee subsidy to their respective students. Earlier this year, MRP also delivered school equipment and office supplies to identified operational private schools, madaris, torils, and technical vocational institutions previously located in the MAA. (Norjana Malawi/BIO)
