Eleven drug surrenderers of Barugo, Leyte are the first ever to receive livelihood aid from the DSWD Field Office, after completing the Community-Based Rehabilitation Program conducted by the local government unit and some national government agencies like the DSWD.

Through the agency’s Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) under the Pre-Employment Assistance Fund (PEAF) modality, each of the recovering drug dependents were recently granted Php5,000.00, the amount of which was to be … Click here to read more...

In a recent interview of PR-TV 12 in Tacloban, Protective Services Unit, Ofelia Onida Pagay of the DSWD Field Office VIII, emphasized that there are no referrals needed insofar as medical/burial/educational/transportation assistance are concerned.
She informed that the social worker will assess the needs of clients based on the Social Case Study Report or Brief Case Findings made by the local social worker as well as the Certificate of … Click here to read more...

Finally, the DSWD Field Office Eight have finished its month-long pay – out of cash gift to the first batch of centenarians in the region. Numbering to fifty-five, there were 47 of them who were able to benefit the Php 100, 000.00 incentive from the DSWD.
DSWD Focal Person for Senior Citizens, Asther Dadulla, bared that that eight other centenarians in the list are now deceased, but were, then, living … Click here to read more...

DSWD Field Office VIII Regional Director Restituto Macuto shared that some Philippine State Universities and Colleges (PSUCs) had reported that 1 Expanded Students Grants-in-Aid Program for Poverty Alleviation (ESGP-PA) grantee graduated as Magna Cum Laude and 23 more as Cum Laude, during today’s Regional Steering Committee Meeting for ESGP-PA CY 2017.

The graduates are from the households under the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps).

Official list of names of the … Click here to read more...

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office VIII through the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) supports around 550, 455 children beneficiaries in Eastern Visayas Region.

4Ps is a human development program of the national government that provides conditional cash grants to the poorest of the poor, to improve the health, nutrition, and the education of children aged 0-18.

Several of these children grantees recently graduated with various … Click here to read more...

Ang Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office VIII sa pangunguna ni Policy and Plans Division Chief Yvonne Serrano-Abonales kamakailan ay nagsagawa ng Regional Inter-Agency Committee (RIAC) Meeting cum Field Visit sa Calbayog City, kasama ang iba’t ibang ahensiya ng gobyerno at civil society organizations.

Ang nasabing pagtitipon ay naglayong ibahagi ang mga updates sa iba’t ibang programa at serbisyo ng DSWD, lalo na ng Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino … Click here to read more...

Calbayog City– Ang Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office VIII ay nag-umpisa nang mamahagi ng karagdagang P600.00 para sa rice subsidy kada buwan. Ito ay ipamimigay sa mga benepisyaryo ng Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) simula ngayong Marso kasabay ng pagbibigay ng regular na cash grants.

“Kasunod ng direktiba ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte noong kanyang unang State of the Nation Address (SONA) nung Hunyo 2016, ang rice … Click here to read more...