The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) continues to extend assistance to families affected by the oil spill caused by the sunken motor tanker (MT) Princess Empress in Oriental Mindoro last February. Based on the latest report of the DSWD Disaster Response Management Bureau (DRMB), the Department has already provided more than Php430 million continue reading : More than P430-M in aid extended to Mindoro oil spill victims
Photo 1 (Left) DSWD Secretary and Philippines ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC) Leader Rex Gatchalian (left) joins former President and incumbent Senior Deputy House Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (middle) and House Speaker Martin Romualdez (right) for a photo session with Philippine Youth Representatives Tiffany Templonuevo and Jericho Emphasis during the 42nd ASEAN Summit in Bali, Indonesia, on continue reading : DSWD Secretary Gatchalian with PH delegates to the 42nd ASEAN Summit
Less than three months before President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.’s second State of the Nation Address (SONA) the Presidential Communications Office (PCO), through the Philippine Information Agency (PIA), kicked off the ‘Nagkaka1sang Bumabangon: The 2023 Pre-SONA Caravan’ at the Las Piñas East National High School in Las Piñas City on Wednesday, May 10. The Department continue reading : DSWD joins inter-agency pre-SONA caravan; extends social services to Las Piñas residents
(Photo 1) DSWD Spokesperson and Assistant Secretary for Special Projects Romel Lopez (in white polo barong) and Philippine Information Agency Director General Ramon Cualoping III (in grey vest) lead the ribbon cutting ceremony for the opening of Nagkaka1sang Bumabangon: The Pre-SONA Caravan held at the Verdant Covered Court, Pamplona 3, in Las Piñas City on continue reading : DSWD joins inter-agency Pre-SONA Caravan
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN-FAO) are collaborating to scale up efforts in institutionalizing the Anticipatory Action (AA) approach in the Philippines. In operationalizing the DSWD-FAO collaboration, more than a hundred specialists from a community of AA practitioners will gather for the 6th National continue reading : DSWD, UN-FAO to scale up efforts to institutionalize ‘Anticipatory Action’
Photo 1 (Left) DSWD Secretary and Philippines ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC) Leader Rex Gatchalian (right), Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Enrique Manalo (middle), and Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Alfredo Pascual (left) pose for a photo before the start of the plenary session of the 42nd ASEAN Summit in Bali, Indonesia. Photo continue reading : DSWD Secretary with members of the Philippine Delegation for the 42nd ASEAN Summit
Some 693 families who were victims of a fire incident in Cavite City received cash assistance under the Emergency Cash Transfer (ECT) program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) through its Field Office (FO) CALABARZON . The FO – CALABARZON conducted a payout activity on Tuesday, May 9, at the Ladislao Diwa Elementary School, which is serving as an evacuation center. Each family-beneficiary continue reading : Fire victims in Cavite City get cash aid from DSWD
Photo 1 Fire victims in Cavite City wait for their turn to be processed for Emergency Cash Transfer (ECT) at the Ladislao Elementary School, which serves as an evacuation center, on Tuesday, May9. Photo 2 A social worker from DSWD Field Office CALABARZON interviews a fire victim before handing out the cash assistance through the continue reading : Cash payout for fire victims in Cavite City
Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rex Gatchalian, the Philippine ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC) Leader, led the country’s delegation to the 29th ASCC Meeting in Bali, under Indonesia’s ASEAN Chairmanship, on Monday, May 8. Secretary Gatchalian later delivered a country statement before the delegates and participants to the 29th ASCC Meeting. The ASCC continue reading : DSWD Secretary Gatchalian speaks before the 29th ASCC Meeting in Indonesia
A family-beneficiary of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) from Los Banos, Laguna, will soon exit from the program and the Fajardo family is not at all anxious of what the future brings, but still they welcome their graduation from 4Ps with open arms. Such is the ultimate goal of 4Ps – for family-beneficiaries to graduate from the program because they have already been equipped with the skills continue reading : 4Ps on the right track of breaking inter-generational poverty with family-beneficiaries welcome graduation from 4Ps
