DSWD Field Office Eight Regional Director Leticia Diokno today calls on all public social workers, as well as those social workers in private institutions or welfare agencies, to join in the opening of the Professional Regulations Week (PRC) Week set on Saturday, June 16 of this year.

She made this appeal, if only to emphasize the social work as a noble profession,   and the valuable role of social workers in … Click here to read more...

“If Kalahi-CIDSS provides day care centers and school buildings, then why do we still lack these facilities in many of our barangays here in our province?” remarked Provincial Social Welfare and Development Officer Luz Tacal during the Provincial Advisory Committee (PAC) meeting held on May 23, at the Western Samar Provincial Governor’s Conference Room.

Kalahi-CIDSS Deputy Regional Project Manager Eubolo Co explained that it is not the Project who determines … Click here to read more...

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office Eight Regional Director Leticia Diokno emphasized that the partnership between Kalahi-CIDSS and the private and public sectors is actually a mandate of the President particularly in promoting inclusiveness and transparency of Government projects.

“The services of our partners in Kalahi-CIDSS will be a good complementation with our projects”, Director Diokno said.… Click here to read more...

Some 400 poor folks of Mayorga town in Leyte province recently completed this summer a four – day skills training, ranging from massage therapy, driving, food processing, motorcycle/small engine servicing, fish processing and preservation, and horticulture, courtesy of the municipal government under Mayor Valente Adolfo. The local government unit poured in an amount of Php 150, 000.00 for this purpose, with the TESDA – Calubian National Vocational School lending support … Click here to read more...

It’s only a few days away before school starts, but the DSWD Field Office Eight is yet to begin the employment of in-school youths and out-of-school youths, who have garnered higher ratings, in last April’s screening for the Expanded Government Internship Program.

The problem, however, is that the slots were reduced from the original number of 7,634 to 1,298, DSWD Field Office Regional Director Leticia Diokno announced. She said, “we … Click here to read more...

Perpetrators, as well as victims of domestic violence, are both victims of cultural and socio – economic situation of society!

With the DSWD coming up with a program designed to help perpetrators to be reintegrated and be productive members of their family and society,   Region Eight is now set to implement the so –called “Counselling Services for Rehabilitation of Perpetrators of Domestic Violence (CSRPDV).

The Project is the DSWD’s contribution … Click here to read more...

“That’s what development to me is all about”, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Vice President Tom Hurley remarked, referring to how the communities worked together in planning, identifying, building and maintaining sub-projects of the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan- Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS) in Region Eight.

Hurley and his team visited and graced the blessing and inauguration of concrete path-walk in Brgy. Bato and the Seawall in Poblacion … Click here to read more...