Farmers’ children graduate through DAR scholarship

The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Cebu Provincial office harvested another batch of seven graduates for school year 2012.

The graduates in Bachelor of Science in Agriculture were  Grace Cañete, Mitchelle Labrador, Romar Manego, Napoleon Lacno Jr., James Morales, Jovie Prajes, and in Bachelor of Elementary Education, Pronaley Capungan.

DAR provincial agrarian reform officer Isagani Yee congratulated the graduates, who were part of DAR’s scholarship program called “Programang Agraryo Iskolar,” at the Cebu Technological University campus in Barili town, southwest Cebu.

The Programang Agraryo Iskolar (formerly President Diosdado Macapagal Agrarian Scholarship Program) started in 2003 to help children of agrarian reform beneficiaries attain education so they could help their parents improve their living condition.

The scholarship program aims to produce a pool of well-educated and trained people who will assume the responsibility from their parents of working and making productive the lands awarded to them under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program.

This year’s eighth batch of graduates brought the number of scholarship grantees of DAR Cebu from 2003 to 2012 to 44.

The scholars were given free tuition, book allowance for every semester and monthly allowance.