DSWD Field Office Eight employees, foster/adoptive parents, residents of the agency’s Regional Haven, and PANTAWID PAMILYANG PILIPINO PROGRAM (PANTAWID PAMILYA) Parent-Leaders of Tacloban took a round of the city Monday, March 4, 2013, to mark the opening of the DSWD’s observance of the National Women’s Month this March. Most of them walked, others run, and continue reading : WALK, RUN, BIKE FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS !

The province of Northern Samar this week formally took off its partnership with the DSWD and the Technical Services Development Authority (TESDA), in the implementation of the Cash-for-Training Program (C4TP) for Youth in the locality. This makes Northern Samar as the first province in the region to launch this national scholarship program, which is implemented continue reading : NORTHERN SAMAR : FIRST TO TAKE OFF IN DSWD-TESDA CASH-FOR-TRAINING IN REGION EIGHT

The data from the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) is now accessible to 60 local government units in Eastern Visayas. This was made possible soon after the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) for data sharing was signed between the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Corazon “Dinky” Juliano-Soliman and the Local continue reading : NHTS-PR shares data to some LGUs in EV

“Tama na!” (It’s over!) Their time is up,! United States (U.S.) Ambassador to the Philippines, Harry Tomas, Jr. pointed out loud on the human trafficking issue that is happening in the country, during a recent meeting at The Oriental Leyte Hotel in Baras, Palo, Leyte. Speaking before representatives of member-entities of the Regional Inter-Agency Committee continue reading : U.S. AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH ANTI-TRAFFICKING NETWORK IN REGION EIGHT TO PUT AN END TO TRAFFICKING !

The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (Panatwid Pamilya) Regional Program Management Office (RPMO) gave recognition to exemplary performance of Pantawid Pamilya Provincial Operations Offices down to staff individual performances were given recognition by the Regional Program Management Office (RPMO) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office 8 during the 2012 Year End Program continue reading : Pantawid Pamilya RPMO Awards Exemplary Performers

The DSWD Regional Rehabilitation Center for Youth or RRCY will open its door tomorrow, March 1, for the public to watch the U.S. Navy Seventh Fleet Band conduct a master class for the 62 residents of this Center. The visit will give the Children-in-Conflict-with-Law (CICL) residing at the Center a rare opportunity to interact with continue reading : DSWD REHAB CENTER OPENS DOOR TO PUBLIC; INVITES EVERYONE TO WATCH U.S. NAVY SEVENTH FLEET PERFORM

A total of Php 26,798,000.00 in capital assistance, under the Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) of the Department, was released in year 2012 for Region Eight, reported Hermanito Mangalao, the Regional Project Development Officer of the DSWD Field Office Eight. Eighty percent of the total 2,757 recipients, or 2,223 are beneficiaries of sets one and two continue reading : MORE THAN PHP26 M IN SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOOD PROGRAM FUNDS RELEASED FOR REGION VIII IN 2012