4P's Can This Really Help?

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The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) of DSWD, is what we usually coined "band-aid solution" of the government on the inevitable rapid poverty rate in the country.  Though legitimately, I have to commend Secretary Soliman for having the guts in materializing such programs despite and in-spite of these skepticisms;

--primarily, fund allocation that is directly given to the beneficiaries in "cash", is constant and on a regular basis which is a FIRST in the history of Philippine social welfare, and
--secondly, the uncertaintly of the government on whether the allocated funds or cash that are directly down-handed to the stakeholders and the indigents are really spent on what they are intended for.

Clearly, that is why this program is termed "PANTAWID", for this can only aid (presumably) the beneficiaries, "temporarily" in addressing their everyday survival needs.  The change and the passion for development must and should still stem from oneself.  Therefore, investment in unfolding of individual potentials, or Human Development, as how UPLB Professor Emeritus Nora Quebral defined development, would still be our primary weapon in warring poverty.  Hence, a DevCom mindset.