As part of the Women’s Month Celebration, the Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office 8 and Holy Infant College partnered to engage college students from medical and health-related courses in a discussion on Gender and Development (GAD) and Violence Against Women and their Children (VAWC).

Future psychometricians, psychologists, nurses, and other health professionals play a vital role in the multi-disciplinary response to gender-based violence, particularly in providing psychosocial … Click here to read more...

DSWD Field Office 8, represented by Assistant Regional Director for Administration Clarito Logronio, received the award at the Pag-IBIG Fund Stakeholders’ Accomplishment Report (StAR), held last March 21, 2025 in Cebu City.

During the event, DSWD FO8 was presented with a plaque, recognizing the agency’s contribution and effort in providing workers with the benefits of Pag-IBIG’s saving programs and access to affordable home financing.

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The Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office 8 recently deployed Community Engagement Coordinators (CECs) from the Walang Gutom Program (WGP) to retrieve local market prices to help WGP Partner Merchants set fair and competitive prices.

Surveying three key markets in three selected municipalities per province, the collected data ensures that distributed goods remain within prevailing regional prices.

This crucial effort, conducted every 4th and 18th of the month, … Click here to read more...

Over 200 DSWD Registered Social Workers convened for the first-ever Social Workers’ Development Conference in the region at the Leyte Academic Center, Palo, Leyte.

The activity was initiated by the DSWD Field Office 8 through its Association of the DSWD Social Workers Inc. (ADSWI) presided by Division Chief Paula Unay, in celebration of the International Social Work Week anchored on the theme, “Strengthening International Solidarity for enduring Wellbeing.”

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The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Eastern Visayas has begun the series of community assemblies as part of the social preparation activities for this year’s expansion of Tara, Basa Tutoring Program (TBTP).

Since last week, TBTP community coordinators successfully conducted the activity in the cities of Tacloban and Ormoc, and the municipalities of Paranas, Jiabong, Pinabacdao, San Jorge, and Villareal all in Samar province.

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In line with the mandate of the department, which is to assist families in recovering from the effects of shear line, the DSWD Field Office-8 remains committed to providing relief augmentation support throughout the region.

In coordination with the Local Government Unit and Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office, a total of 2,000 family food packs have been distributed to families affected by the shear line in San Miguel, Leyte.… Click here to read more...

Aabot sa 9,292 family food packs ang naipaabot ng ahensya bilang augmentasyon sa mga lokal na pamahalaan ng Eastern Samar at tugon sa mga pamilyang apektado ng pag-ulan at pagbaha dulot ng Shear line sa rehiyon.

Kabilang na dito ang mga LGU’s ng:

Taft, Eastern Samar – 1700 family food packs

Can-Avid, Eastern Samar – 1,778 family food packs

San Policarpo, Eastern Samar – 1, 700 family food packs

Borongan … Click here to read more...