The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and Arellano University have partnered in providing educational scholarship grants to surviving children of PDEA personnel killed in action.
PDEA director general Aaron Aquino and Arellano University chairman and president Francisco Paulino Cayco inked Friday a memorandum of agreement at the PDEA headquarters to offer to the children of anti-narcotics personnel who are either left permanently incapacitated after undergoing complete disability discharge proceedings, or by meritorious reasons a scholarship grant.
“Under the agreement, the educational scholarship grant is available in all of Arellano University’s seven campuses in Metro Manila for school years 2019 to 2023. The scholarship is for students studying in elementary, secondary and college,” Aquino said.
To be able to avail themselves of the educational benefit, PDEA must submit the necessary documentary proof that the grantee is indeed the surviving child of PDEA personnel who was killed in action or left totally disabled while in the line of duty.
The admission of grantees to any of the university campuses is in accordance with the existing quota assigned and the programs offered subject to the existing laws and admission policies of the university.
A grantee must satisfactorily pass the course of instruction based on the approved standards of AU. If the grantee fails to pass a subject, his/ her benefit shall be considered suspended. The grantee has the option to retake the subject at his/her own expense.
“PDEA would like to express its gratitude to Arellano University for recognizing the lives and limbs sacrificed by valiant men and women of PDEA in the name of public service. The educational privilege will be a huge morale boost to our personnel,” Aquino said.
He said the endeavor is the first time the agency partnered with an academic institution to provide quality education to dependents of PDEA casualties.