Tacloban City – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) continues to conduct incident stress debriefing (CISD) to victims of Typhoon Yolanda in Eastern Visayas.

A team of social workers were deployed to visit various evacuation centers to conduct CISD to affected individuals, especially to women and children.

As of December 5, the stress debriefers have served 141 women and children in different evacuations centers in this city alone.… Click here to read more...

Thanking before some 19 representatives of various international development organizations, DSWD Secretary Corazon ‘Dinky’ Soliman reported that as of December 12 of this year, the agency has already distributed some 3,009,076 rice and food packs to 280, 968 displaced families of typhoon Yolanda. It has also given out non -food items to the victims, such as tents – 4,108 pieces, tarpaulins – 7,302, mosquito nets – 16,660, blankets – 51, … Click here to read more...

Tacloban City, Leyte – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said that it is now sorting the damaged relief goods that were recently transported here from Cebu City on board MV Carmen.

The food packs, which contain rice, canned goods, noodles and coffee, were damaged in transit.

However, there are several relief goods that were inadvertently released to several local government units (LGUs) in the province.

They were … Click here to read more...

Mark Tupaz (not his real name) is 13 years old and has never been in school after his first grade. “Waray kami kwarta pan-eskwela,” (“We have no money for education.”) was all the boy could say.

All his life, he has been helping his mother earn a living by doing laundry work for somebody else. He has a high ambition, and that is to be a doctor someday.

The seemingly … Click here to read more...

Like the grasses in their plain and uncomplicated existence, which survived the wrath of super typhoon Yolanda, they too shall thrive.

Above is a statement from the teary-eyed Flora del Monte, 42 years old, a Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program partner beneficiary of Bgry. 88 in San Jose District, Tacloban City. Flora’s family is one of the 285 household evacuees at Leyte National High School, Tacloban City.

Other than her 9 … Click here to read more...

Sto. Niño SPED Center, one of the 37 temporary shelters in Tacloban City for the victims of typhoon Yolanda, accommodates 44 families from Barangay 6 and 6-A. One of them is the family of Leonardo Abobo, Jr., a beneficiary of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program who has survived the said tragedy.

Leonardo, who has just undergone appendectomy or the surgical removal of the inflamed and painful appendix, started to convey … Click here to read more...

Supertyphoon Yolanda caused great devastation to the city of Tacloban,  forcing  some 3, 243 families to flee from their homes and stay in evacuation camps.  Others remained in their totally – wrecked houses while the rest,  to Manila or Cebu or elsewhere.

To date, there are 39 evacuation centers in the city.  The DSWD takes the lead in managing said refuge camps, giving priority attention to children, women, older persons, … Click here to read more...