Gov’t urged to include forest dwellers in CCT program

MORONG, Bataan: Former Bases Conversion Development Authority chairman Felicito Payumo is urging the government to include all forest dwellers in its Pantawid Pamilya, a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program for poor families, but with specific assignment of helping guard the forests.

“The forest inhabitants are among the poorest of the poor in the country and they should be included in 4Ps but with the obligation to guard the forests or lose their monthly cash support,” said Payumo, who was also Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority chairman.