Every day we saw the hardships felt by our fellow constituents as they hike the almost 1.3-km difficult trail from the “sitio” up to the highway, making us feel guilty and our hearts crumpled.  These constituents from the “sitios” strives the condition everyday of their lives, while we at the barangay proper who live in continue reading : KALAHI-CIDSS Opens the Road to Uplift Living

Eastern Visayas – After the much-talked about 2010 elections, residents in some towns of Leyte and in the city of Catbalogan were bound to again heat-up the local scene as validation and enrolment to Land Bank of the Philippines of the potential beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) have commenced in Set 3 continue reading : Validation, LBP Enrolment of Roughly 4, 500 4Ps beneficiaries took off in Set 3 Areas

“If my husband can see me now, he would be bursting with pride. He would tell me that I made the right choice committing the municipality to the KALAHI-CIDSS Project and making the most of our limited financial resources.” Strategies for Counterparting Since I sit as the Municipal Mayor of Tarangan, the town has been continue reading : KALAHI-CIDSS EXPERIENCE IN DEVELOPMENT

With the success of the Job Network Service Project, fifteen more “perennial clients” will be considered by the program, said to have been pilot-tested in Region Eight since 2008, and now to be extended till end of year 2010, to be able to reach out clients who have been continuously seeking medical assistance from the continue reading : JOB NETWORK SERVICE PROJECT EXTENDS TO FIFTEEN MORE PERRENIAL CLIENTS

The Regional Committee on Disability Affairs (RCDA) this year, is on towards advocating the United Nations Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), an international covenant that follows after the principles proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations. Regional Coordinator Evelyn Dolencia of the National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA), who was recently continue reading : ADVOCACY ON U. N. CONVENTION ON RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES PUSHED

Kananga, Leyte – Our community folks are satisfactorily benefiting the gains we are receiving from the government through the Kapit-Bisig Laban Sa Kahirapan- Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services: Kapangyarihan at Kaunlaran sa Barangay (KALAHI-CIDSS:KKB) project. We are satisfied with the results of our hard work and our enthusiasm in bringing changes to our continue reading : Kananga Volunteers Learn to Become Good Leaders through KALAHI-CIDSS Teachings