Pasay City – Rowena Duenas, 40, was all smiles as she partakes the two-piece chicken and adobo rice toppings handed to her by a volunteer after disembarking from the C130 at Villamor Airbase. Rowena, a native of Palo, Leyte, is among the evacuees of Typhoon Yolanda who arrived yesterday from Cebu City. Rowena arrived together continue reading : Evacuee hopes to start life anew outside Tacloban

Iloilo City – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the Department of Agriculture (DA) have joined forces for the provision of food assistance to victims of Typhoon Yolanda in Western Visayas. Under the tie-up project dubbed “Food First Project,” DA pooled its resources and came up with a savings of P3.58 million continue reading : DSWD, DA forge food project for ‘Yolanda’ victims

Pasay City – President Benigno Simeon Aquino III visited the National resource Operations Center (NROC), the main repacking center for relief goods of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), yesterday and personally thanked all the volunteers who are assisting in the repacking of relief goods for Typhoon Yolanda victims.  The President encouraged the continue reading : PNoy visits DSWD repacking center, thanks volunteers

Intensifying relief operations for families in typhoon-hit Eastern Visayas, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) targets to produce 2.04 million family food packs within two weeks starting today. To facilitate this, DSWD has set up additional repacking stations around Metro Manila in addition to the DSWD-National Resource Operations Center (NROC). Said satellite stations continue reading : DSWD to repack 2 million food packs in 2 weeks

To speed up the production of family food packs for the victims of Typhoon Yolanda, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has opened satellite repacking centers of relief goods. Here, the public can volunteer in the repacking. Aside from the DSWD National Resource Operations Center (NROC) located at Chapel Road, NAIA, Pasay City, continue reading : DSWD opens more repacking sites

Cebu City — The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office VII continues to assist victims of Typhoon Yolanda who are moving out from the typhoon-ravaged Tacloban City. Personnel from the Department are deployed at the Mactan Air Base to meet these people who arrived in the city via C130. “Tiniis naming maglakad continue reading : DSWD aids victims leaving Tacloban

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman said that relief operations for victims of Typhoon Yolanda is moving at a faster pace with roads and thoroughfares already open and passable. Secretary Soliman flew to Ormoc City today from Tacloban City to lead in relief distribution. The Secretary said that aside from distribution in continue reading : DSWD assures faster relief ops

Last Friday, Typhoon Yolanda ravaged a large part of the Visayas region. It was one of the strongest typhoons in this country’s history, if not the world’s. We thank the experts from PAGASA, the Mines and Geosciences Bureau, Phivolcs, and DOST, who gathered together and gave us the right, detailed, information, which allowed our countrymen continue reading : Statement of President Aquino on typhoon Yolanda, November 11, 2013

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) reported that as of 12 noon, the number of families affected by ‘Yolanda’ has reached the two million mark  composed of 9.53 million persons as local government units (LGUs) from Regions IV-A and B, V, VI, VII, VIII, X, and CARAGA continue to assess the extent of continue reading : 2.1 million families affected by ‘Yolanda’ — DSWD

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman instructed all DSWD Field Offices in regions affected by Typhoon Yolanda to ensure speedy distribution of family food packs to the victims. “We have to move fast considering the extent of the devastation. People in the worst-hit areas need food, water and medicines,” she said. continue reading : DSWD speeds up relief distribution