[New post] Scholarship to ease field work financial woes for UP CSWCD students
Arlyn VCD Palisoc Romualdo posted: " Immense relief from the mental and emotional toll of thinking about money for internship expenses. Less worrying about how to get extra income to cover financial requirements of field work. Money for food, transportation, and other personal " University of the Philippines
Immense relief from the mental and emotional toll of thinking about money for internship expenses. Less worrying about how to get extra income to cover financial requirements of field work. Money for food, transportation, and other personal needs that would otherwise be taken out of an already stretched family budget.
These are some of the ways the Fe Parajas I. Benito Scholarship will benefit its recipients, according to the recipients themselves—Community Development majors Brandt Ivann Paul Aquino, Perrie Rejuso, and John Bryan Salamanca, and Social Work majors Jedidiah Apolinario and Adeza Ann Azares.
The scholarship was launched on October 23 with the awarding of grants to the first batch of recipients, who are all fourth-year students of the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Social Work and Community Development (CSWCD). They are currently enrolled in the field instruction program, which is either community-based work or agency-based internship.
Established by Ted Benito in honor of his mother, who graduated with a 1954 BA Social Work degree from the then-UP College of Liberal Arts, the scholarship was his way of "paying it forward": an act of compassion she instilled in him. Social work and social workers "need to be uplifted," he said.
Eric Panuncialman, president of the UP Alumni Association of Greater Los Angeles (UPAAGLA), added that social work and community development are "very fulfilling humanitarian jobs." The UPAAGLA was Benito's first link to getting the scholarship created. Coordination with the UP Office of Alumni Relations (OAR), UPD Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, CSWCD, and the UPD Office of Scholarship and Grants laid the foundation for the firm establishment of the scholarship.
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