The all – male group of Violence Against Women advocates of DSWD Field Office Eight will make Positive Disciplining on children as one of the additional subjects for its advocacies. Said Federico Pagayanan, president of the Men Opposed to Violence Against Women Everywhere (MOVE) DSWD Field Office Eight chapter, assuch is in support to one of the thrusts of the Department.
LolitDadap, head of the Social Technology Unit, stated in … Click here to read more...
Speaking before a group of parents of the 68 residents of the DSWD Regional Rehabilitation Center for Youth (RRCY), Assistant Regional Director Nestor Ramos of the DSWD Field Office Eight reminded them of their roles and responsibilities towards their children, even if they are now taking temporary refuge at the Center.
Ramos gave an inspirational message during this year’s Parent Education Congress held recently at the Multi-Purpose Hall of the … Click here to read more...
The National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction is currently conducting a special enumeration and validation of poor households in the three barangays in the municipality of Palompon, Leyte starting December 11 to 18, 2012.
Municipal Mayor Ramon Oñate proposed for the enumeration of the residents of Barangay Belen, Barangay Central III and the validation thru the on-demand-application (ODA) for Barangay Lomonon. These barangays were not included in the 2009 … Click here to read more...
Some 2,762 senior citizens will start receiving a monthly five hundred peso – stipend next year, as lifetime financial assistance from the national government, the DSWD Field Office Eight Regional Director, Leticia Diokno, reported today.
Diokno is referring to the Social Pension Program being implemented by the DSWD nationwide, priority of whom are 77 – year old senior citizens who are without a monthly social pension from any government or … Click here to read more...
Two (2) Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) field workers were ambushed by unidentified armed men on December 4, 2012, Monday, as they were on their way to their official station in San Jose de Buan, Samar, wherein they are assigned as community facilitators of the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS).
Renato Dacaymat, 49, and Harvey John Abelido, 24, were riding on their … Click here to read more...
Even as typhoon warning signals were lowered in various parts of the region, the DSWD Field Office Eight keeps on closely monitoring the state of disaster – prone areas in Region Eight, Regional Director Leticia Diokno announced today.
In the agency’s First Progress Report on Typhoon Pablo to DSWD Central Office in Manila, it stated that in St. Bernard town, there are 256 families from 12 barangays who have left … Click here to read more...
A total of three human trafficking cases were noted in the third quarter of this year, report from the Regional Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Trafficking – Violence Against Women and Children (RIACAT-VAWC) revealed.
The DSWD – led RIACAT-VAWC is strongly advocating against the issue on trafficking, especially that Region Eight is one of the pilot regions in the implementation of the Department’s Recovery and Re-integration Program for Trafficked Persons (RRPTP). Said … Click here to read more...