With my recent recommendation for confirmation to the Senate plenary of the Commission on Appointments, I have been continuously asked, especially during media interviews, what I think of Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago’s reaction towards my endorsement and have been, I feel, relentlessly prodded to say something adverse towards the Senator. I have nothing ill to say continue reading : Statement of Sec. Corazon "Dinky" Juliano-Soliman

We are no stranger to horrible accounts of violence committed against women and children. Heart- breaking narratives of wives being beaten to death by their jealous husbands and children raped by the people who should be protecting them are sometimes trivialized as nothing extraordinary but a matter of the family. Violence against women and children continue reading : Pantawid Pamilya inspires violence-free communities

Australian Embassy officials led by Ambassador David Dutton were impressed by how the core programs of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) have helped poor families in the Bicol Region. This is after the officials visited recently the projects being implemented through the partnership of DSWD and the Australian Government in  the towns of continue reading : Australian Embassy officials laud DSWD projects for poor families in Bicol

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman receives the US$1,110,223.95 check donation of the Government of Taiwan from Ambassador Raymond L.S. Wang, Representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in the Philippines, for the survivors of Typhoon Yolanda during a simple turnover ceremony on Tuesday at the DSWD Central Office. continue reading : DSWD receives donation from Taiwan Gov’t