Government strips Arroyo scholars of aid, forces ex-leader to shoulder tuition of student

June 10th, 2011 davidguide
Windsor Genova – AHN News News Writer

Manila, Philippines (AHN) – The social welfare department has ended the educational assistance to 70 poor youths given scholarships by the previous administration forcing former president and now congresswoman Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to pay the tuition of one of the students on Wednesday.

Arroyo said the gesture was in keeping with her promise during her presidency to help Erwin Dolera and two other dumpsite scavengers to finish college.

Dolera, 19, is in his last and senior year at the Trinity University of Asia. He is taking up Communication Arts.

Dolera’s government-sponsored scholarship ended when Arroyo’s term ended in 2010. The Department of Social Welfare and Development offered to continue the assistance under the Study Now Pay Later program, but Dolera declined because he preferred the full scholarship.

Without the department’s assistance, Dolera sought Arroyo’s help, according to the ex-leader’s spokesman, Elena Bautista-Horn.

Horn branded the government’s refusal to continue the scholarship of Dolera and other Arroyo scholars as an act of vengeance by the Aquino administration, which is holding her accountable for alleged corruption during her term.

Dolera, Jason Vann Banogan and Jomar Pabalan are the so-called Paper Boat Boys for sending then president Arroyo a message written on paper boats in 2001. In their message, the boys, who were orphaned when their parents were killed in a landslide, asked Arroyo to help them finish their schooling.

The paper boats reportedly reached the presidential palace after the boys let it sail through the Pasig River.

 

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