The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), through its Field Office IV-A, called for the local government units (LGUs) in the CALABARZON Region to extend assistance to the street families in their respective areas. Last July 20, the Field Office conducted an orientation and planning workshop on the Comprehensive Program for Street Children, Street continue reading : DSWD to LGUs: Respond to street families, Sama-Bajaus
Luisiana women receive livelihood assistance
Ten organized associations of women from Luisiana in Laguna Province were provided with Php693,000 worth of livelihood assistance under the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP). Majority of these women are beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program. The SLP, one of DSWD’s core social poverty alleviation programs, seeks to continue reading : Luisiana women receive livelihood assistance
Cabinet Secs to beneficiaries: “Magkatuwang tayo sa pagbabago”
Cabinet Secretaries of the present administration emphasized that the government and the people must work together to improve the lives of the poor. This was during the Daang Matuwid Caravan held last July 21 in Club Manila East, Taytay in Rizal Province. Among those present in the activity were Sec. Corazon Juliano-Soliman of the Department continue reading : Cabinet Secs to beneficiaries: “Magkatuwang tayo sa pagbabago”
Women-volunteers build BUB infra project in Lemery
Women-volunteers from 46 barangays of Lemery, Batangas Province completed the implementation of the Gender and Development (GAD) Resource Center sub-project under the government’s Bottom-up Budgeting (BUB) program employing the community-driven development strategy of the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Kapit Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS). The BUB continue reading : Women-volunteers build BUB infra project in Lemery
DSWD, partners promote total sanitation among Pantawid HHs in Buenavista
One hundred percent of the household-beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program in Buenavista, Quezon Province now have their own toilet facilities. This is after the integration of the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) Program in the Family Development Sessions (FDS) of the said beneficiaries in 2014 as part of the Department of Social Welfare and continue reading : DSWD, partners promote total sanitation among Pantawid HHs in Buenavista
DSWD conducts Kalahi-CIDSS Talakayan in San Antonio
Community volunteers of the Kapit Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS) program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) share the results of their participation towards local development during the recently held Municipal Talakayan in San Antonio, Quezon Province. The Municipal Talakayan is a joint activity of the continue reading : DSWD conducts Kalahi-CIDSS Talakayan in San Antonio