DIF Delivers Academic Scholarships to Students of Puerto Vallarta

The support consists of 2000 pesos with which students can buy school supplies, backpacks, uniforms and footwear. The total investment was of 456 thousand pesos from the Fund V Branch 33 • Some 228 students from elementary level, jr. high and high school were benefited from Training and Academic Scholarships for Welfare

For the looming school year, 228 families in the municipality of Puerto Vallarta will have resources to buy school supplies or uniforms as reported by the president of the System for Integral Development of the Family (DIF), Magaly Fregoso Ortiz during the delivery of Training and Academic Scholarships for Welfare.

The total investment was 456 thousand pesos from the Fund V Branch 33, to stimulate the permanence of children in the classroom, and so that they don't desert.

That amount, symbolically delivered this Monday, concentrated parents in the urban and rural areas of Puerto Vallarta, which were selected by socioeconomic study for being worthy of support.

With the presence of state authorities of the DIF and Family parents, who gathered in the auditorium Juan Luis Cifuentes Lemus of the University Center of the Coast (CUCosta), Fregoso Ortiz stressed the importance that represent the scholarships given by the State Government to minors because it is the opportunity to improve their living conditions.

These are children and young people who have good grades and live in a situation of vulnerability, where the DIF through programs such as Prevention, Care, Discouragement and Eradication of Marginal Child Urban Labor (Propadetium) Child Sexual Exploitation (ESI) Prevention and Comprehensive Adolescent Pregnancy Program (Paideia), Psychosocial Risk Prevention program (Preverp) and Children Promoters
"I knew stories like the one of the girl Lizette Cervantes, who is already a mom, but has forged a life that includes, in addition to being a wife and a mother, to keep studying to graduate as a psychologist and to help those experiencing difficult life circumstances, like hers. This is what moves us. "Stressed the president of DIF Vallarta.

Meanwhile, Lorena Arriaga Jassibe Sandoval, head of DIF Jalisco, expressed her support for children and her commitment to continue working closely with the municipalities of the coast and she invited the children to take advantage of the support given to prepare and improve their quality of life. The president of the DIF of Jalisco pointed out that this 2013 a total four thousand fifteen scholarships will be awarded throughout Jalisco and announced that next year she will work so that the number of scholarships increases and reaches more children and adolescents.

It is important to note that the 228 scholarships awarded to children and adolescents in Puerto Vallarta, consist of electronic purses in the amount of 2000 pesos each, for the purchase of school supplies, uniforms and school shoes, calculators, USBs, backpacks and registrations.

And it is because, the goal of the program Training and Academic Scholarships for Welfare is to support children of low income, who have desires to improve themselves, pushing their physical and mental development.

Besides the director of DIF Vallarta, Adolfo Lopez Solorio, there was also the presence of the director of DIF Jalisco , Consuelo del Rosario González Jiménez, the child promoter José Israel Garcia Diaz and deputy director of DIF Operation, Leopoldo Pérez Magaña, among other authorities.

[readon1 url="http://notivallarta.com/2013/07/30/entrega-dif-becas-academicas-a-alumnos-de-puerto-vallarta/"]Source: NotiVallarta Translated by Rene Tripp[/readon1]