The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) welcomes the ratification, by the Senate and House of Representatives, of the amendments of RA 9344 or the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act retaining the minimum  age of criminal liability of children to 15 years old.  The amended bill seeks to strengthen the implementation of the existing continue reading : DSWD lauds ratification of amended bill on juvenile law

In its effort to safeguard the welfare of children and the youth, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) developed a project “Keeping a Sexually Abuse Free Environment (SAFE) for Out-of-School Children and Youth (OSCY) Through Protective Behaviour.” The program aims to decrease the number of cases of abuses and violence, within the family continue reading : DSWD’s SAFE project saves kids from sexual abuse

About 7.2 million children beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, the country’s conditional cash transfer program, are among the more than 21 million pre-schoolers, elementary and high school students who trooped to public schools during the opening of classes on June 3. The number of enrollees increased by 200,000 from last year’s 7 million continue reading : 7.2 M Pantawid Pamilya Children enrolled this year

In time for the opening of classes, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) turned over P9.5M worth of educational facilities to the Municipality of Pilar, Surigao del Norte. The facilities were constructed through DSWD’s Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDSS) project with funding support from the Australian Agency continue reading : DSWD turns over educational facilities to CARAGA town

With the need to ensure that social protection programs should reach the intended beneficiaries, Social Welfare and Development Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman admitted during the recent Conference on the Philippine Social Protection Agenda that “our greatest challenge is to move poor families to self-sufficiency level by 2016.” Secretary Soliman said that the Department of Social Welfare continue reading : Confronting the Challenges of Social Protection: No one should be left behind in development

Nursing mothers gather and chat inside a women-friendly space in New Bataan, Compostela Valley Province. A women-friendly space (WFS) is a designated tent inside an evacuation center or a relocation site that provides internally-displaced women with a safe place to meet, talk and help each other. Inside a huge tent, Nenet, 25, sits in a continue reading : Women and child-friendly spaces: a haven during disasters

Inside a huge tent, Nenet, 25, sits in a corner breastfeeding her six – month old son. Nearby, other young mothers with their babies and toddlers engage in light banter. Nenet is one of the 1,271 women staying in the evacuation centers in New Bataan. In an adjacent tent of similar size, blackboards were set-up, continue reading : Women and child-friendly spaces: a haven during disasters

For Eloy who belongs to the Manobo tribe of Sitio Pong-Pong in Talaingod, Davao del Norte, writing his first name on a paper for the first time in his life is a dream come true. But writing his first name on an official document, also for the first time, is a fulfilment of a commitment to his tribe. continue reading : Illiterate tribal leader learns to write name for tribe’s sake