CHED is hope. CHED makes difference One of the thrusts of the Commission on Higher Education is to provide access and equity to quality education among the financially disadvantaged but academically deserving students for them to contribute in enhancing the nation’s human capital competitiveness and economic development. Now, I am just grateful with this because this is one way of helping students and giving them hope that despite poverty, reaching their dreams is really possible because of CHED.
I’d been one of the grantees of CHED Student Financial Assistance Program specifically the Grants-in-Aid Tulong Dunong Program. I still couldn’t believe that I was able to finish my college studies because of CHED. It was one of my inspirations during my college years. It really inspired me to continue my studies and to do better to subject or course that I was taking. Honestly, I had a hard time then thinking where I would get financial support considering that my father is a fisherman whose income is just enough to suffice our needs everyday. My mother is a plain housewife and I still have my younger siblings who are coming to school, I just didn’t know what to do. There’s no other source of income and I was not even an LGU Scholarship grantee. Further, my 3rd and 4th year in college demanded many requirements like thesis and this just made me so worried because it just added up to my problem. I was only an ordinary student who had a big dream of becoming a teacher. I was coming to school with only fifty pesos with me and I could hardly able to budget that amount because I knew it’s not enough and was very small compared to expenses in school like expenses for photocopies and the like. I had many problems then and experienced struggles and difficulties being a financially disadvantaged student but then again I didn’t lose hope and I fought for my dreams. I applied for the Grants-in-Aid Tulong-Dunong Program. I was just so grateful then that I had only to submit few requirements like Certificate of Indigency, Application Form and Brgy. Clearance just to name few. Fortunately, I became one of the recipients of the said program. This made me forever thankful to CHED because somehow it lessened my problem. It supported me financially. In other words, it gave me hope. It also gave hope to every student who is also less fortunate in terms of money but academically deserving. It serves an inspiration to me and to everybody, to every student and parents. I believe CHED is a catalyst of change. CHED makes difference. Now, I’m already a licensed teacher and am so grateful to everyone behind my success. One of it is CHED. I’m one of the products of Grants-in-Aid Program. CHED helped to the realization of my dreams. Fro, an ordinary student to professional one, now I can say I can I can contribute in enhancing the nation’s human capital, competitiveness and economic development. This is my success story. I just hope CHED will continue supporting financially disadvantaged but academically deserving students. It may serve as hope and continuous make a difference to people’s lives. From CHED, change is coming! Mabuhay! ALVIN G. PACULABA |