Tacloban City – Fifteen out of 40 municipalities made it to the list of new KALAHI-CIDSS municipalities for implementation next year during the Information Dissemination and Municipality Selection Process for KALAHI-CIDSS. These municipalities came from Eastern Samar, Northern Samar, and Leyte.

From Leyte Province, the following municipalities made it to the roster – Barugo, Matag-ob, Burauen, Babatngon, Alang-alang, Tanauan, Abuyog, and Calubian. Winning Northern Samar municipalities are Lavezares, Bobon, … Click here to read more...

Tacloban City – Thirty-five mayors from five provinces in Region Eight expressed their readiness to implement the KALAHI-CIDSS Project in their respective towns. Their commitments were firmed up when the target municipalities were represented in the KALAHI-CIDSS Enrollment Conditions Precedent fora.

Speaking for his municipality, Mayor Francisco Langi Sr. of Motiong, Western Samar revealed that prior to the forum he was already aware of the commitments required from his municipality. … Click here to read more...

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Undersecretary, Cecilia Yangco encouraged Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (Pantawid Pamilya) beneficiaries to take their responsibilities as parents to their children through birth registration, during the launching of a joint project of DSWD, National Statistics Office, and Department of Interior and Local Government on Free Birth Registration held in Catarman, Northern, Samar last May 17, 2011.

In her inspirational message to the beneficiaries, she … Click here to read more...

Tacloban City– Back-to back basic orientation for the newly hired staffs of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (Pantawid Pamilya) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) were held last Saturday, May 21, 2011.

The 227 participants were divided into four groups depending on the positions. For Social Welfare Assistants (SWA) and Project Development Officers the orientations were held in La Rica Hotel; Municipal Roving Bookkeepers, Senior Bookkeepers, Administrative … Click here to read more...

Some 102 indigent senior citizens of Catarman town received their social pension for the first time, last May 17, 2011, at the Farmers’ Training Center of the University of Eastern Philippines in same municipality of Northern Samar.

DSWD Undersecretary Celia Yangco personally handed the cash grants, with the help of Senior Board Member Joel Layon, Catarman Mayor   Rolando Carpio, Jr., DSWD Region Eight Director Leticia Corillo, and DSWD Assistant Regional … Click here to read more...

Reiterating what Secretary Corazon “Dinky” Soliman“ of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has earlier stated – “We want to provide multiple and diversified sources of income to the Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries, create livelihood opportunities for themselves so that they will have the ability to access basic social services after five years of being Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries,” DSWD Field Office Eight Director Leticia Corillo bared that the region … Click here to read more...

Tacloban City – USEC Celia Yangco warmed the hearts of the people of Mondragon, Northern Samar with her presence in the May 17 inauguration and turn over of the KALAHI-CIDSS flood control sub-project in Bgy. Bugko, Mondragon, Northern Samar.

After the ribbon-cutting that signaled the inauguration of the 210 linear meters flood control barrier, the Undersecretary chatted with the villagers. After learning from Mayor Ismael Bugna, Jr. that the families … Click here to read more...