EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE. Students applying for the Albay Provincial Education Department (PED)'s educational assistance fill out the forms outside the PED office in Legazpi City on Wednesday (Aug. 24, 2022). At least 3,250 indigent students are expected to benefit from the program, each of them receiving PHP2,000. (Photo by Emmanuel Solis) LEGAZPI CITY - The Albay Provincial Education Department (PED) is extending educational assistance to indigent students for this school year. PED chief Roman Chambaerlane Zuniga, in an interview on Wednesday, said the provincial government of Albay has allocated PHP6.5 million for educational assistance to indigent students in elementary, secondary and college levels, both from the public and private schools in the province. He said his office is targeting at least 3,250 program beneficiaries who would receive PHP2,000 each. "PED is requiring the applicants to submit their certificates of indigency, records from their schools as proof that th