Antique to strengthen partnership with youth organizations

By Annabel Consuelo Petinglay

SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique – The Antique Provincial Youth Development Office (PYDO) will further strengthen its partnership with various youth organizations in the province to come up with more developmental activities.

The office is one of the 25 Most Outstanding Local Youth Development Offices (LYDO) in the Philippines recognized during the 4th Philippine Sangguniang Kabataan Awards at the

Iloilo Convention Center in Iloilo City on June 12, said Antique PYDO head Irish Manlapaz.

“We were able to receive the award because of good governance,” Manlapaz said in an interview on Thursday. She said the PYDO has established a database and conducted joint activities with 38 active youth organizations in the province.

They also reached out to students applying for educational assistance from the provincial government.

“Instead of the students coming to the capitol to apply for the educational assistance, the PYDO personnel were the ones who reached out to them,” she said.

For the first semester this year, she said 18,239 of the 19,409 students who applied have already received aid totaling PHP91.78 million.

“There are only 1,170 students yet to receive their assistance hopefully by the end of June,” Manlapaz said.

College students are provided with PHP5,000 assistance while graduate students are allotted

GOOD GOVERNANCE. Irish Manlapaz, who heads the Antique Pro vincial Youth Development Office (fourth from left), receives the Most Outstanding Local Youth Development Offices (LYDO) in the Philippines award during the 4th Philippine Sangguniang Kabataan Awards at the Iloilo Convention Center in Iloilo City on June 12, 2023. Manlapaz said in an interview Thursday (June 15, 2023) that the Antique PYDO received the award because of good governance. (PNA photo courtesy of PYDO Antique)

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