“Gustung-gusto ko ang Kalahi-CIDSS. Dahil sa programang ito ng DSWD, natututo ang mga tao kung paano talaga mag-implement ng project,” said Mayor Percival Ortillo of the municipality of Marabut,Samar, during the recent World Bank Support Mission.
He shared then how the above program exhibits transparency and empowers the people and emphasized that development is a social responsibility.
“Lahat ng tao makikialam at makiki-isa, kaya sigurado maganda and proyekto,” … Click here to read more...
While a child may be placed in foster care as a preparation towards his placement with an adoptive family, it shall not be used to pre-identify a child for adoption. Social worker, Reyschel Balase, handling the Foster Care Service of the DSWD Field Office Eight issued this statement, to a group of some 26 workers hired under the DSWD – UNICEF project. The orientation on the DSWD Alternative Parental Care … Click here to read more...
Guiuan, Eastern Samar ─ “Pinaagi han amon tinalagudti na buhat, mabulig kami paghatag hin aksyon ha mga isyu parti han climate change, para han kinabubuwason han amun pamilya ngan bug- os na komunidad (In our own little ways, we will help take action on the issues on climate change, for the future of our family and the entire community),” said Grace Rapada, 40 years old, one of the parent leaders … Click here to read more...
This June 2015, at the opening of the next schoolyear, more than 25 Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program children-beneficiaries from Brgy. Hibunawan in the municipality of Burauen in Leyte will no longer stay inside their old room destroyed by Super Typhoon Yolanda.
“We thank DSWD, Kalahi-CIDSS NCDDP and Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) for this project. MCC is an innovative and independent U.S. foreign aid agency created in 2004 that is helping … Click here to read more...
In a Civil Society Organization (CSO) – led conference on Civil Registration held this week at the Ritz Tower de Leyte in Tacloban City, DSWD Secretary Corzaon Juliano “Dinky” Soliman congratulated the group behind the Mobile Civil Registration Project in helping out Yolanda survivors recover and reconstruct their civil records and identity documents that were destroyed after the supertyphoon. The project, spearheaded by the Initiatives for Dialogue and Empowerment through … Click here to read more...
Pantawid Pamilya Parent-leader, Lilia Advincula, of Barangay 39 in Tacloban City is all substance and humor as she impresses the audience, particularly DSWD Secretary Corazon Juliano Soliman, in the one – day Civil Society Organization (CSO) – Led Fora entitled, “The Voice of the People,” held Monday, February 23, 2015 at the Tacloban Convention Center. The middle – aged woman tells some close to 1, 500 Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries of … Click here to read more...
They call us the lower class, the twerps, a burden to the government. They dub us dependents, supposedly merely after government doles. They call us the poorest of the poor, the beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps).
Let me tell you people, we are less fortunate but we are not stupid. Yes, we are receiving a certain amount from the government, to alleviate our … Click here to read more...