Tacloban City, Leyte –  Aware of the special needs of women who are presently staying in evacuation centers,  the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)  has set-up Women Friendly Spaces (WFS) in its evacuation centers. WFS is a special place for women in evacuation centers where they can breastfeed their children, learn about health continue reading : DSWD sets up special place for women at evacuation camps

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) extends it gratitude to all the volunteers who helped repack relief goods at its main warehouse, the National Resource Operations Center (NROC) in Pasay City, and in all its satellite hubs in Metro Manila and in the regional repacking centers. The Department reiterated that it has closed continue reading : Thank you, Volunteers – DSWD

To speed up dispatching and delivery of relief goods to Eastern Visayas, repacking activities in the hubs in the Samar and Leyte provinces will be beefed up, according to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). To date, there are relief repacking centers in Tacloban City, Leyte and Catbalogan City, Samar. Another repacking site continue reading : DSWD closes repacking centers in NCR, Cebu; beefs up Samar-Leyte hubs

Estancia, Northern Iloilo –The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-Field Office VI has provided food packs, assorted canned goods and used clothing to some 1,200 families or 3,600 persons from the coastal barangays of this town who evacuated because of the oil spill. In can be recalled that at the height of Typhoon Yolanda, continue reading : DSWD assists oil spill evacuees

Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu – As various humanitarian aid for ‘Yolanda’-hit areas in the Visayas continue to arrive at the city, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-Field Office VII partnered with other government agencies to set up a one-stop processing station for all foreign donations at the Mactan Airbase. This is in response to continue reading : One-stop station for donations set up in Cebu

To accommodate more in-kind donations for Typhoon Yolanda victims, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has opened a Donations Desk at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium located at M. Adriatico St. corner Leveriza St., Manila. Donations (bulk and small items) can be brought there starting today. It is open 24 hours. For inquiries, please continue reading : Public Advisory:

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) continues to remind the public that it does not repack nor switch foreign goods with local ones. The reiteration came after variations of the issue on alleged repacking by DSWD of foreign donated goods circulate in the media and social networking sites. “We do not repack the continue reading : DSWD reiterates policy on repacking of relief