CITY OF SAN FERNANDO – Aside from the 1,800 beneficiaries of the ‘Iskolar ng Dong,’ 219 more college students received education assistance from Pampanga 3rd District Rep. Aurelio “Dong” Gonzales on Saturday.
Gonzales said his passion to grant scholarships is based on experience. “Only six out of the 12 Gonzales siblings had finished college.”
He disclosed that his office gives at least P6,000 to each student every semester. “In some cases, we shoulder all the expenses of students belonging to the poorest of the poor.”
In interviews with beneficiary-students from Arayat, they said “we are so happy because we can study in college despite being poor.”
“We do not entertain suitors so as not to distract our focus in studying,” they said.
One of Gonzales’ scholars is the reigning Mutya Ning San Fernando who graced Saturday’s awarding of scholarships.
“I will study well and finish my course in order to pay back the noble project of Congressman Gonzales,” said Enna Amor D. Serrano of Barangay San Agustin in the dialect during her speech at the headquarters of the solon here.
“I was asked in the mutya peageant how can I help the community. I told the audience I would study well since I firmly believe that the future of the nation is the youth,” added Serrano, a 3rd year college student at UP Clark who receives educational assistance from Gonzales’ program since last year.
Gonzales, a civil and sanitary engineer who graduated at Mapua Institute of Technology (MIT), said his father was a farmer and his mother was a plain housewife that’s why he had to study well.
He said he had to use his personal money to sustain his studies in college.
Ben-Hur Baniqued, provincial director of the Techinical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), said they are “glad” with solons like Gonzales who grant educational assistance.
Gonzales said his passion to grant scholarships is based on experience. “Only six out of the 12 Gonzales siblings had finished college.”
He disclosed that his office gives at least P6,000 to each student every semester. “In some cases, we shoulder all the expenses of students belonging to the poorest of the poor.”
In interviews with beneficiary-students from Arayat, they said “we are so happy because we can study in college despite being poor.”
“We do not entertain suitors so as not to distract our focus in studying,” they said.
One of Gonzales’ scholars is the reigning Mutya Ning San Fernando who graced Saturday’s awarding of scholarships.
“I will study well and finish my course in order to pay back the noble project of Congressman Gonzales,” said Enna Amor D. Serrano of Barangay San Agustin in the dialect during her speech at the headquarters of the solon here.
“I was asked in the mutya peageant how can I help the community. I told the audience I would study well since I firmly believe that the future of the nation is the youth,” added Serrano, a 3rd year college student at UP Clark who receives educational assistance from Gonzales’ program since last year.
Gonzales, a civil and sanitary engineer who graduated at Mapua Institute of Technology (MIT), said his father was a farmer and his mother was a plain housewife that’s why he had to study well.
He said he had to use his personal money to sustain his studies in college.
Ben-Hur Baniqued, provincial director of the Techinical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), said they are “glad” with solons like Gonzales who grant educational assistance.
