The Department of Social Welfare and Development ensures all delivery of rice and family food packs to affected families in Eastern Samar for relief distribution today.
Nine wing vans and five military trucks containing 5000 family food packs (ffp) for Borongan, 1440 ffp for Llorente, 960 ffp for Quinapondan, 400 sacks of 50kg rice to Arteche, 350 rice sacks for Dolores, 350 for Jipapad, 400 sacks for Oras, San Julian, … Click here to read more...
November 7, 2014 —- Guiuan Town Plaza, Guiuan Eastern Samar. DSWD Secretary Corazon Juliano Soliman with Regional Director (RD) Nestor Ramos and Assistant Regional Director (ARDO) Restituto Macuto, after dinner with DSWD officers and staff, went to the town’s plaza and attended the Guiuan Solidarity night, a night to commemorate the 1st year anniversary of Typhoon Yolanda’s first landfall and to pray for the souls that perished the day Yolanda/Haiyan … Click here to read more...
“Since I have nine children, feeding them was difficult; sending them to school was harder. Food was easier to look for, but educating them was really tough. As a parent, I do my obligations, since being a parent is a real obligation. Because of the help of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino program, I am able to pay (my children’s) school without so much effort. When the releases arrive, (since there … Click here to read more...
She has been a Day Care Worker for 12 years in barangay Lupoc of Guiuan, Eastern Samar, receiving a meager income from an honorarium of Php1,750, plus the cash grant from the conditional cash transfer program. Even with the devastation brought by super typhoon Yolanda into their home, Vilma Daganzo still sees a bright future for her family. “Kaya natin ito; kaya natin ang pagbabago !, she says. The Estehanon … Click here to read more...
Heroism has always been branded with masculinity. Oftentimes, the hero is crafted in our imagination as a charmer, a knight in shining armor, or a mysterious lad in tight colored costumes and capes ready to rescue a damsel in distress. But not anymore, because there is one hero I have met who does not fit into our collective macho illusion of a hero.
Meet Marites
Marites in her forties is … Click here to read more...
Tacloban City- DSWD Sec. Dinky Soliman Friday, October 31 visits Brgy. 88, 89, 90 in Tacloban City, and engages in a dialogue with barangay officials on the continuous movement of around 300 remaining families in tents, to transitional shelters. By November 8, the remaining 138 families living in tents at Barangay 88 will be “zeroed” as they will be transferred to vacant bunkhouses which were previously occupied by those who … Click here to read more...