Cebu City – “Poverty in itself is a disaster.” This was the statement made by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Corazon “Dinky” Juliano-Soliman during her keynote address in the municipal Mayors’ Forum for identified local chief executives (LCEs) of Central Visayas on March 21 in this city. The mayors’ forum had continue reading : Poverty is a type of disaster – DSWD

Manila, Philippines – Representatives from the Indonesian government recently visited the Philippines to study the implementation of Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS), one of the three main poverty alleviation programs implemented by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). The learning visit, which ran from March 17 to continue reading : Indonesian gov’t officials in PH to study DSWD’s anti-poverty program

Palo, Leyte – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) sent a team to investigate the media reports that rotten relief were distributed in a barangay in Leyte. Upon validation by a team from DSWD-Field Office VIII who went to the area and interviewed Brgy. Captain Panchito Cortes, they found out that the goods continue reading : DSWD investigates rotten relief goods in Palo

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), through the Listahanan or the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTSPR), will hire and train 1,245 staff to conduct the special validations for the beneficiaries of Social Pension for Indigent Senior Citizens and Modified Conditional Cash Transfer (MCCT) Program. They will be assigned as area continue reading : DSWD to hire 1,245 staff to validate qualified aid recipients

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has prepositioned P82.3-million in emergency relief resources for families that will be affected by Tropical Depression Caloy which entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility today. These include P9.28 million standby funds, 58,846 family food packs worth P15.02 million, and other food and non-food items worth P58.01 million. The prepositioning continue reading : DSWD prepositions P82.3-M for areas to be hit by 'Caloy'

Tacloban City, Leyte – To demonstrate transparency on the accounting of donations received by the agency, Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman reported yesterday at the ‘Yolanda’ Transparency Forum here that the Department has initially earmarked P779,486,400.15 of the P1,019,316,071.21 total cash/check donations it has so far received to fund programs and continue reading : Sec. Soliman reports accounting of donations for ‘Yolanda’ survivors

Manila — Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman was one of the speakers during the recently-held 2014 General Assembly of the League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP), an organization of local chief executives nationwide. In her message, Sec. Soliman enjoined the local chief executives to continue being partners of the national continue reading : Sec. Soliman speaks before local execs