The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office VIII has been working closely with partner stakeholders to ramp up the social preparation activities for the 2025 implementation of the Tara, Basa! Tutoring Program (TBTP) in Eastern Visayas. This year, the DSWD will expand the program covering Samar province and the cities of Tacloban and Ormoc in Leyte with a total target of 1,508 college students, 5,040 learners, and 5,040 parents. The program is a reformatted educational assistance for college students from low-income families who will be deployed as tutors and YDWs to conduct reading tutorials to struggling or non-reader pupils and carry out the Nanay-Tatay sessions to the parents of the learners. In return, the student-beneficiaries will receive a daily pay equivalent to the Regional Daily Minimum Wage for the 20-days learning sessions set between May 19 to June 13, 2025. Meanwhile, parents who attended the sessions with topics including effective parenting, dynamics of Filipino families, challenges in parenting, and children’s rights, among others, will receive a daily allowance of PHP235. Over the past weeks, the Regional Program Management Office (RPMO) here has been conducting a series of coordination meetings with the Department of Education and partner state universities and colleges to ensure that all social preparation activities will be done according to agreed timelines. These include the selection and crossmatching of beneficiaries, orientation to would-be tutors and YDWs, capability building activities, community assemblies, among others. In 2024, the DSWD deployed 375 tutors and YDWs from Samar State University and Northwest Samar State University serving a total of 1,981 learners and 1,977 across two cities and 19 municipalities for its pilot implementation in Samar. ### #BawatBuhayMahalagaSaDSWD#tarabasatutoringprogram#TaraBasaPH

LOOK: 86 Pantawid beneficiaries from Limasawa, Southern Leyte received wages under DOLE’s Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers (TUPAD) program during the payout on January 13, 2025, at the town’s Municipal Covered Court. These Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) beneficiaries spent 10 days cleaning or sweeping the streets in their respective barangays. Each beneficiary received ₱ 4050 each which immensely helped augment their daily needs. Arlene Batalon, 4Ps grantee who availed the TUPAD program said, “…ang TUPAD naghatag kanamo og additional nga income. Nakapalit kami pang panginhanglan para sa among pagkaon.” Aside from the additional income support, Arlene expressed how the TUPAD fostered a spirit of cooperation and communal unity. The government continues to implement programs and services such as the DSWD’s 4Ps and DOLE’s TUPAD to create opportunities for economic resilience among poor and marginalized families and communities. #BawatBuhayMahalagaSaDSWD credits: DSWD 4Ps ML Reynan Gontinias

TINGNAN: Patuloy ang isinasagawang loading ng family food packs ng DSWD Field Office-8 bilang prepositioning at paghahanda sa mga possibleng sakuna. Sa ngayon, aabot sa kabuuang 6,400 ang nadiskarga ng ahensya sa lokal na pamahalaan ng: Oras, Eastern Samar – 1,700 Hernani, Eastern Samar – 1,700 Abuyog, Leyte – 3,000 Ang prepositioning of goods ay isa sa mga pamamaaraan ng ahensya upang paigtingin ang disaster preparedness measures at upang agarang makapagresponde sa mga nangangailangan. #BawatBuhayMahalagaSaDSWD

Matagumpay na isinagawa ng National Household Targeting Section (NHTS) kasama ang Pantawid Regional Program Monitoring Office (RPMO) ang orientasion tungkol sa 4Ps F1KD (First 1,000 Days) gamit ang i-Registro para sa lahat ng City/Municipal Links sa Rehiyon 8. Ibinahagi nina Leizel B. Astorga, Project Development Officer-IV (PDO-IV) at Head ng NHTS ang komprehensibong ideya tungkol sa i-Registro at ni Darryl Joseph A. Bagares, Information Technology Officer-II (ITO-II) ng NHTS ang paraan ng paggamit ng i-Registro web portal at ng i-Verification System. Ang i-Registro ay isang digital at self-service platform na kung saan maaaring makapag-update ng impormasyon ang mga aktibong benepisyaryo ng 4Ps na buntis at/o may anak na 0-2 taong gulang. Ito ay alternatibo at makabagong paraan para mapabilis ang pag-update ng kanilang impormasyon sa Pantawid Pamliya Information System (PPIS) na kailangan ng programang 4Ps para sa maayos na pagpapatupad ng First 1,000 Days conditional cash grants. Kasalukuyang bini-beripika ng mga NHTS verifiers ang mga naisumiteng impormasyon at dokumento sa i-Registro web portal. Kaya naman hinihikayat ng Kagawaran ang lahat ng aktibong Pantawid benepisyaryo na buntis at/o may anak na 0-2 taong gulang na magparehistro gamit ang i-Registro. Narito ang link ng i-Registro web portal: iregistro-4ps.dswd.gov.ph Para sa karagdagang impormasyon tungkol sa i-Registro, maaaring bisitahin ang DSWD i-Registro Facebook page. #iRegistroAngF1KDsa4Ps #BawatBuhayMahalagaSa4Ps

LOOK: The Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office-8, through its Risk Resiliency Program Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation (RRP-CCAM), conducted a simultaneous orientation of PROJECT LAWA AT BINHI (Local Adaptation to Water Access and Breaking Insufficiency through Nutritious Harvest for the Impoverished) for 10 Local Government Units in the Province of Samar. A total of 3,288 partner-beneficiaries coming from the municipalities of Calbayog City, Matuguinao, Gandara, San Jorge, Catbalogan City, Jiabong, San Jose de Buan, Calbiga, Sta. Rita and Basey have undergone comprehensive training encompassing Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation. The twin projects (LAWA at BINHI) are designed to address water scarcity and increase food production through sustainable farming practices. The successful implementation of the said project demonstrates the collaborative efforts exerted between the Local Government Unit and National Agencies in uplifting the livelihoods of the impoverished. #BawatBuhayMahalagaSaDSWD #projectlawaatbinhi

BASAHIN: “Pagpapaunlad ng komunidad, ito ang pangunahing layunin ng KALAHI, hindi lang ang (physical) project kaya sayang kung hindi ma-sustain. By February, magkakaroon tayo ng CSA Assembly o Forum. Lahat ng mga O&M (members) sa KALAHI-CIDSS ay aming iimbitahan para sa activity na ito. This is how we would like to sustain. Our office is now drafting the CDD Ordinance. It is not a resolution kasi ang resolution ay may maaaring hindi ipatupad sa susunod na taon kaya Local Ordinance sa CDD approach ang gusto nating suportahan para sa sustainability nito. May KALAHI fund man tayo o wala, ang konsepto ng CDD o ang tinatawag nating nagkaka-isang paniniwala para sa pagpapaunlad ng komunidad ang ating ipagpapatuloy.” Ito ang naging pahayag ni Engr. Leonardo Madeja, Jr., Municipal Planning and Development Officer ng Naval Biliran, sa iginanap na DSWD KALAHI-CIDSS KKB-CDD Turn-over and Acceptance Ceremony for the Newly Constructed Multi-Purpose Building sa Barangay Libertad, Naval, Biliran noong ika-14 ng Enero, 2025. Ito ay isang testimonya ng pagsuporta sa adhikain ng Community-Driven Development na mabigyang pagkakataon ang bawat miyembro ng komunidad na makiisa sa kanilang pag-unlad. #MagKalahiTayoPilipinas#BawatBuhayMahalagaSaDSWD

LOOK: The Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office-8, through its Disaster Response Management Division, loads a total of 7,821 family food packs for prepositioning to the local government units of: Matuguinao, Samar- 1,700 FFPs Sulat, Eastern Samar- 1,700 FFPs Salcedo, Eastern Samar- 1,700 FFPs Dulag, Leyte- 521 FFPs Padre Burgos, Southern Leyte- 500 FFPs Sogod, Southern Leyte- 1,700 FFPs #BawatBuhayMahalagaSaDSWD