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...
In making the
rounds of Region Eight, specifically Samar, DSWD Assistant Secretary Javier Jimenez (the Department’s official spokesperson) early this week called on the people to support the Listahanan, saying, “huwag niyong takbuhan ang nag-susurvey !” (Do not run away away from those who are doing the enumeration!) The project makes available to all social protection stakeholders, a comprehensive socio-economic database of poor households to serve as their basis for … Click here to read more...
Mayor Lesmes Lumen of La Paz in Leyte commented recently that the DSWD’s Emergency Shelter Assistance (ESA) program is a good one and that the procedure involved was rather tedious. He made said announcement during the second “Hisgot ha Otso” monthly media gathering of the DSWD Field Office Eight last July 20, 2015 in La Paz, Leyte. The activity was combined with a media tour to some barangays with completed … Click here to read more...
“Ang tubig ay para sa lahat, lalo na sa mahihirap.”
Mano Pomping Dacanay, 71, believes that every single drop of water is for everyone, especially the poor. This is the main reason why he and the community folks of Brgy. New Minarog, Motiong, Samar decided to choose the Construction of Level-II Gravity Fed Water Supply System worth
Php 480,963.52 as their sub-project under Kalahi-CIDSS with funding from Millennium Challenge Corporation … Click here to read more...
Philippine Socioeconomic Planning Secretary and NEDA Director General Arsenio Balisacan visited Typhoon Yolanda rehabilitation projects in Leyte which inluded ADB-JFPR supported projects in Brgy Bislig, Leyte. ADB-JFPR, through DSWD and Plan International, is implementing the following projects in Brgy Bislig: rehabilitation of 11 classrooms in Bislig Elementary School; livelihood projects through cash-for work activities, out-of-school youth vocational skills training, cash grants, training and microgrants given to farmers/fisherfolks and community based … Click here to read more...
DSWD Field Office VIII celebrates the high school graduation of around 1,983 Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries from the province of Northern Samar, 931 of whom are achievers in their respective schools, June 11, 2015 at the Catarman Gymnasium.… Click here to read more...
Water is no longer a luxury.
Through Kalahi-CIDSS and PAMANA’s Rehabilitation of Water Supply system project in the community, Margie and the rest of the families in Brgy. San Isidro, Silvino Lubos, Northern Samar no longer struggle and fight just to get a bucket of water.… Click here to read more...