July 04, 2025 – The DSWD Field Office IV-A conducted a series of house visits to three reintegrated clients in San Pedro City, Laguna last July 2, 2025 to identify appropriate interventions to help them continuously live off the streets. These clients are those reached out in the streets under the DSWD’s Pag-Abot Program.

The Pag-Abot Program is implemented to help reduce the risk and vulnerabilities of children, individuals and families in street situations and enable them to improve their wellbeing and live a decent and dignified life.

As part of the program’s services, individuals and families profiled to be living in the streets are reached out and provided with immediate interventions until they are able to be reintegrated to their families or communities or live independently off the streets.

The said three clients in San Pedro (one family and two children) have been reintegrated to their communities and families between March to June 2025. These families are being monitored by the DSWD, in coordination with the local social welfare and development office.

According to Marjo Arigadas, project development officer of the DSWD Pag-Abot Program in the CALABARZON Region, the house visit enabled them to assess the situation of the three clients more intensively. This assessment will serve as the basis for determining appropriate interventions to help them improve their living conditions and prevent them from going back to the streets.

Included in the services that may be provided to clients of the Pag-Abot Program are employment assistance, livelihood assistance, psychosocial support, and community assistance among others. [with reports from MRArigadas]