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DSWD-CAR awards winners of 4Ps Huwarang Pamilya, Exemplary Child

BAGUIO CITY (PIA) --  A family from Kiangan, Ifugao and a Grade 11 student from Itogon, Benguet  are this year’s 4Ps (Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program)  Huwarang Pamilya and Exemplary Child for the Cordillera Region.

During  the Regional Search for the 4Ps Huwarang Pamilya and Exemplary Child on August 3,  at the City Travel Hotel in Baguio City,  the  family of Emilia Dinamling from Kiangan  emerged as the 4Ps Huwarang Pamilya while Zarah Mae Comiles, a Grade 11 student of Sacred Heart High  School in Itogon, Benguet was named the  2023 Pantawid Exemplary Child.

The Department of Social Welfare and Development led the awarding of  winners immediately after the judging.

2023 4Ps Huwarang Pamilya in CAR regional winner, Emilia and Benedicto Dinamling Family of Kiangan, Ifugao with the board of judges and DSWD personnel during the regional seach and awarding on Aug. 3, 2023 in Baguio City.

Emilia and  Benedicto Dinamling are parents to five children. Emilia is a child development worker and an active member of the community while  Benedicto  is a farmer, and a barangay kagawad.

In second and third places  were   the  Ricardo and Maribel Balcita Family of Baguio City, and Saly and Miriam Briones Family from Santa Marcela, Apayao, respectively.

Other finalists include Rizaldo and Lolita Baesa Family from Abra, Greg and Catalina Ortiga Family from Benguet,  Daniel and Bernize Kinao Family from Kalinga, and Allan and Rosalie Kacayon Family  from Mountain Province.


For the Exemplary Children Category, Comiles bested six other finalists. She  aspires to become a successful entrepreneur someday.

Being a monitored child under the 4Ps,  Comiles  shared that she is very thankful because the program has helped their family a lot. She  said that  no matter what challenges or difficulties they  face in life, she will endure it no matter how hard it is. Her family will always be her inspiration to become successful in her chosen career someday.

Runners-up were   Danica Chorpangan of Natonin, Mountain Province, and Remalyn Aguilar of Pudtol, Apayao.

Other finalists were Jane Bugtong Venus of Abra, Roxanne Baggit Bosway of Baguio City, Dencio DJ T. Dinamling of Ifugao, and  Cloeth Joy Yacapin of Kalinga.

Zarah Mae Comiles from Itogon, Benguet , the 2023 Exemplary Child winner, in a photo opportunity with the Search's boad of judges during the regional awarding on August 3, 2023 in Baguio City.

The top three winners  in  both categories  were awarded  plaques and  cash prizes  of  Php15,000.00 for  first place;  Php10,000.00 for  second place, and Php8,000.00 for third place.  The other finalists received consolation prize of Php 2,000.00 and certificate of recognition.

 DSWD-CAR Regional Director Leo Quintilla said the activity aims to recognize the program’s household and children' beneficiaries who have shown outstanding examples of positive Filipino values to their households, co-beneficiaries, school, and community.

He called on the model families to be a role model not only to 4Ps beneficiaries but to the communities.
 
For the exemplary children, “Be an inspiration to your fellow children, your classmates, and most of all,  go to college, fulfill your dreams to be a lawyer, policemen, etc. We have 4Ps beneficiaries who are lawyers, engineers, and doctors and they are now serving the community,” he said.
 
 “Show them na kayang tumawid sa kahirapan at kayang maging role model ng community and can motivate other families,” Quintilla enjoined.  

DSWD-CAR Regional Director Leo Quintilla   enjoins 4Ps beneficiaries to do their  best, take care of the children,  their  health,  their  education, comply with the conditionalities and  learn in  Family Development Sessions  so that that they will  graduate from the program in  earlier.

Prior to the awarding, a desk validation, talent presentation, and question and answer were conducted with the provincial families and children winners  by a panel of judges from DSWD partner agencies.

For the Huwarang Pamilya search, the major eligibility requirements include: A Filipino family beneficiary for at least two years; with good standing in the community with no derogatory records and has not been convicted of any administrative, criminal, civil case or cases involving moral turpitude, and whose income is not derived from gambling, prostitution, child labor, extortion, and other similar illegal resources.

For the Exemplary Children,  the  4Ps child  must be involved with the program for at least one, enrolled in school and compliant to 85% school attendance requirement of the program, and  with good scholastic standing.

The annual Search for 4Ps Huwarang Pamilya and  Exemplary Children started in 2012 and has become a good venue to advocate the program,  and share 4Ps stories of change. (JDP/MAWC-PIA CAR  with reports from Angela Lacson and Nicole Operaña, UC Interns)

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