Leaf farmers’ kids get college scholarships

Formal schooling is often too expensive and priced well beyond the reach of the poor, including tobacco farmers. Thus, the Wong Chu King Foundation (WCKF) is offering 100 college scholarship grants to poor but deserving children of tobacco farmers in Northern Luzon.

The program is one of three components of a P10-million joint project of Mighty Corp. (MC) and the National Federation of Tobacco Farmers and Cooperatives Inc. (NAFTAC) that aims to benefit 65,000 farmers in Pangasinan, La Union, Abra, Cagayan, Isabela, Ilocos Norte and Ilocos Sur.