Tacloban City – It is slowly becoming “business as usual” in the city, according to Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman. Secretary Soliman, who has not left the Visayas since day one of the disaster operations on November 8, observed that some big grocery stores, bakeries, water refilling and gasoline stations, continue reading : Tacloban, on its way to recovery – Sec. Dinky

Tolosa, Leyte – Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman announced that the one millionth food pack distributed by the Department went to a 76-year old grandmother here, on the 14th day of the relief operations following Typhoon Yolanda. Tolosa Municipal Social Welfare and Development Officer (MSWDO) Erlinda J. Sabino identified the continue reading : Lola in Tolosa, recipient of millionth DSWD relief pack

DSWD Field Office Eight Director Remia Tapispisan today called off the ongoing Training on Camp Management and Camp Coordination in Ormoc City for the 70 participants to return to their posts to prepare for the approaching super typhoon, said to hit Region Eight towards the end of the week. The said five – day training, continue reading : DSWD REGION EIGHT PREPARES FOR SUPER TYPHOON YOLANDA

In the culmination of the National Week for Overcoming Extreme Poverty last Wednesday, October 23, 2013, Tacloban City Councilor Dalisay Erpe exhorted close to one hundred beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (Pantawid Pamilya) to take advantage of government programs, especially that which would help lift them out of poverty. She specifically pointed that continue reading : CITY COUNCILOR ERPE TELLS PANTAWID PAMILYA BENEFICIARIES – MAKE GOOD USE OF GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS

Like magic out of fairytales, the small, colorful objects brighten the room. These, however, are far from mystical. Nonetheless, these small pieces, little plastic bricks, are able to bring out smiles from the children who grab pieces, creating magic of their own by using their imagination. These pieces are the LEGO bricks donated by the continue reading : LEGO Bricks and The Values That It Brings

Some fifty male employees of Catbalogan City Hallhave pledged to support the causes behind MOVE, or the Men Opposed to Violence Everywhere, during an orientation conducted recently by the City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWDO) and the DSWD Field Office Eight. They are all one in saying that supporting MOVE will mean a better continue reading : I Support MOVE for a Better Catbalogan !