From Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (Pantawid Pamilya) to other interventions, one community in this part of Northern Samar province started to be re-awakened. The once passive people were turned to be active citizens now.
Barangay Francisco of Catubig is now working its way to become self-reliant via a group of 85 Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries who embarked on the coconut water vinegar enterprise. They put together their resources, coconut being … Click here to read more...
In today’s launch of the Trafficking in Persons Exhibit, DSWD Field Office Eight Assistant Regional Director for Operations, Restituto Macuto, mentioned the essential 3 Cs in counter-trafficking, as the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Philippines made its way to Tacloban for the mobile exhibit. Proper Communication, strong coordination, and sustained collaboration among the humanitarian actors are what he called as necessary, so efforts to combat trafficking will succeed. However, he … Click here to read more...
How do you make the impossible so possible? How do you give so many things when you have nothing? How can a poor family inspire a society to make a difference now, to rise from great devastation, and to share with others a life that is far better from that of yesterday?
This is a story about Badion Family, a family beneficiary of the Pantawid Pamilyang PilipinoProgram from Brgy. … Click here to read more...
“Sinisiguro namin na kayo ay hindi na biktima kundi suvivors,” DSWD Secretary Dinky Soliman told 550 families living in nine barangays of Tacloban, said to be danger zones, during the recent ceremonial program for the groundbreaking of the soon-to-rise Pope Francis Village at Barangay 99, Diit, in Tacloban City. She announced that the DSWD has allotted Php38, 500, 000.00 for each household to receive Php70,000.00 as contribution to each of … Click here to read more...
JR, a 21-year-old Barangay Sub-Project Management Committee Chair of Guindapunan, Javier confidently provides technical details of their Kalahi-CIDSS rehab project to National Program Manager Chi Redaja during her recent visit in Leyte last week.
Said rehabilitation project, which is funded by Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR), is a repair of Level II Gravity Fed Water System destroyed by super typhoon Yolanda in 2013.
“Sa layo ng barangay namin, bihira … Click here to read more...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development’s Kalahi-CIDSS (Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan–Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services) program has already released a total of PHP 20, 702, 106.90 from the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) grant to fund sub-projects in 32 barangays across seven municipalities in Eastern Visayas.
Out of 32 DFAT sub-projects in the region, 22 are on-going Construction of Day Care Centers while … Click here to read more...