The Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office IV-A celebrates its 66th Founding Anniversary last February 14-15, 2017 at Alabang, Muntinlupa City. With the theme: “May Malasakit”, the two-day celebration highlighted the successes of the Department in improving the capacity of its stakeholders as well as recognized the efforts of both partners and staff continue reading : DSWD recognizes partners and employees, challenges to serve with “May Malasakit”

The Local Government Unit (LGU) of San Antonio in Quezon Province shared that the people’s participation in the local development process has created a positive impact to the municipality’s growth. This was reported by town’s chief executive, Mayor Erick Wagan, to the delegates of Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Civil Service Commission (CSC) during the continue reading : San Antonio LGU prove effective leadership through community-driven development

In a street in the town proper of Agdangan, a store is open from 6AM to 6PM daily. At least four women spend the day manning up the establishment just like every typical business in the area.   However, something is different in this establishment.   It houses two businesses—a grocery and a feeds supply continue reading : One store, two businesses and 46 dreams

A total of 1,000 poor families received bags of blessing from the Metrobank Foundation and GT Foundation Inc. blessing last January 28. The said number of families are from Sta. Rosa City, Laguna and Imus City, Cavite and are among the 10,000 poor families nationwide identified by the DSWD’s Listahanan, a system which identifies who continue reading : 1K poor families in CALABARZON Region received bags of blessing

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) recently awarded training certification to 43 residents of the National Training School for Boys (NTSB). The center, which is located in Brgy Sampaloc, Tanay, Rizal, provides residential and rehabilitative care to boys, age 18 years old and below, continue reading : 43 NTSB Residents receive TESDA Certification

Fifty residents of Brgys. Poblacion 5 and 6 in Catanauan, Quezon Province recently provided means to earn more for their families through livelihood training courses on dressmaking and baking. The said residents, who earn less than Php7,000.00 per month, underwent a 15-days training on the dressmaking and baking under the program of the Technical Education continue reading : Catanauan residents complete livelihood trainings, open to new opportunities