The support that keeps children in school
The Rita Cetina Scholarship deposits for this two-month period are already underway. This federal program is a lifeline for thousands of families, a concrete effort to prevent a lack of resources from taking a child out of the classroom.
It is about 1,900 pesos every two months per student. If in the same family there is more than one child in primary or secondary school, 700 additional pesos are added for each one. It is not a fortune, but in the home economy it can make the difference between buying the supplies or not.
A calendar that advances letter by letter
This Friday, April 10, it was the turn of families whose first last name begins with ‘M’. The money arrives directly to the Banco del Bienestar card. It can be withdrawn at no cost or used to pay at stores that accept it.
The dispersion began on April 1 and will end next Thursday the 16th. Next week they complete the alphabet:
- Monday 13: N, Ñ, O, P
- Tuesday 14: R
- Wednesday 15: S
- Thursday 16: T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
Behind this bureaucratic calendar there is a human reality. My wife, who is a teacher, sees it every day: when a family has that little economic respite, the child misses less. School dropouts are not an abstract statistic; He is a neighbor who stopped studying.
This program, managed by the SEP and the Benito Juárez Scholarship Coordination, tries to be a dam against that current. True success is not measured only in deposits made, but in desks that are not emptied.




