Mr. Michael Jibson Hernandez, Executive Assistant Designate of PhilHealth, hands over to DSWD’s Assistant Regional Director Jaime Eclavea boxes of flu vaccines. Looking on is Mr. Emmanuel Relador, also of PhilHealth. The PhilHealth Regional Office donated 100 flu vaccines to the DSWD Field Office Eight. The donation took place in Director Eclavea’s office on July 4, 2011. PhilHealth is a partner agency of the DSWD.… Click here to read more...
Tacloban City – KALAHI-CIDSS implementation in Region Eight helped notched up President Aquino’s performance in alleviating poverty. For the first six months of 2011, 9 types of physical structures that directly responded to community needs have been completed and are now benefiting 5,366 households across Eastern Samar and Northern Samar.
Records show that there are four new school buildings, five day care centers, one health station, one farm-to-market-road, three flood … Click here to read more...
The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (Pantawid Pamilya) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development is now all set this July and August 2011 for the simultaneous Roll-out Trainings on Capability Building for six batches of the Parent- Leaders fromSets 3A and 3B, now going on at the La Rica Hotel and Asia Stars Hotel in Tacloban City.
Each batch has threeclasses, composed of 48 parent-leaders from different municipalities of … Click here to read more...
Northern Samar is reportedly bringing in more micro – finance institutions than ever; thus, builds more hope and gives greater access to credit facilities to the province’s poorest of the poor.
Governor Paul Daza revealed this in a press conference conducted last week by the DSWD Field Office Eight, at the Governor’s Boardroom at the Provincial Capitol in Catarman, Northern Samar.
The agency, under the leadership of Regional Director Leticia … Click here to read more...
Forty-seven Parent-Leaders (PLs) of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (Pantawid Pamilya) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development, representing the three Visayan regions, have gladly shared each of their success stories as partners of Pantawid Pamilya, during the two-day regional forum of parent-leaders held at Ciriaco Hotel in Calbayog City, Western Samar, last June 25-26, 2011.
For the parent-leaders, the Family Development Session (FDS) as one of the program’s … Click here to read more...
DSWD Region Eight Director Leticia Corillo has emphasized in her recent speeches during the regionwide conduct of PHILHEALTH SABADO DAY PART II that “the DSWD’s National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction or NHTS-PR is an assurance that the very poor will be able to enjoy the benefits and privileges of social protection programs, and that poverty-reduction programs will be maximized for them to gradually rise above poverty.”
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Tacloban City — The DSWD Field Office Eight has new partners in its drive to reduce poverty through its social protection programs. The partnership was formalized during the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement witnessed by members of the media and DSWD staff.
The partnership with the Philippine Associated Smelting and Refinery (PASAR) Foundation Inc., DYAJ Power FM, and Pag-asa Youth Association of the Philippine (PYAP) Basey, Samar Chapter boosts … Click here to read more...