Tacloban City – Governor Paul Daza through his representatives, Board Members Ricardo Daiz and Eustaquio Lagrimas distributed checks amounting to 1.4 million pesos for the ongoing construction of 18 sub-projects in 22 barangays of Palapag, Northern Samar.

Gov. Daza promised the municipality during the KALAHI-CIDSS municipal orientation held last year that he would be supporting the municipality with 10%, not just 5% of the required provincial local cash counterpart. This … Click here to read more...

The Regional Committee for Disability Affairs (RCDA) headed by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office Eight leads today, July 18, in the opening of this year’s National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation Week which delves on the theme – “Making the Rights Real for Persons with Disabilities.”

The launching starts with a holy mass at eight o’clock in the morning at the Sto Niño Church in Tacloban … Click here to read more...

A total of 126 municipalities and cities are now implementing the Department’s Supplemental Feeding (SF) Program for children of local government unit – run Day Care Centers in their respective localities.   Seventeen of the total 139 municipalities and seven cities have not started as eight of these have not submitted the required documents like project proposal and memorandum of agreement, while nine others have its documents for approval by the … Click here to read more...

Persons with disabilities (PWDs), the time is here for you to shine!

PWDs Got Talent !, a project of the Regional Committee for Disability Affairs (RCDA), will showcase the exceptional talents and skills of persons with disabilities come Thursday, July 21, at 2 : 00 p.m. at the Robinson’s Place in Tacloban City. The activity is one of the contributions of the Committee, headed by the DSWD Field Office Eight, … Click here to read more...

Tacloban City – The KALAHI-CIDSS Basic Orientation Part One for new workers is now on its third consecutive week. As of this report, some 90 new hires for regional office-based positions and field staff to compose the area coordinating teams were introduced to the processes and demands of the Project.

Assistant Regional Director Jaime Eclavea of the DSWD Field Office Eight said that although this is an introduction to the … Click here to read more...

In preparation for the full – blast implementation of the Department’s Convergence Strategy Program, a series of orientations are being undertaken this July, and on towards August, for workers and employees who are about to be involved in this endeavour.

“We want convergence to really work in these poor communities – the Set 1 and Set 2 Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program areas; that’s why we need to have a better … Click here to read more...

Tacloban City – Four new KALAHI-CIDSS municipalities from Samar and Biliran Provinces committed their support to the Project during the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement held Monday, July 4, 2011 at the DSWD Field Office.

The signing of the contract firmed-up the commitment of the Samar municipalities of Villareal, San Jose d Buan, and Talalora; and the lone Biliran province’s Naval to implement the Project.… Click here to read more...