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DSWD MOBILIZES WORKERS TO ENSURE PROPER PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION
Tuesday 26th of March 2013
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Mar. 26 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office 10 here has reiterated its call to all Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (Pantawid Pamilya) workers to make it clear that politicians or parties have no control over Pantawid Pamilya and other programs of Department.
Lawyer Araceli F. Solamillo, DSWD Field Office 10 Regional Director, said both beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries must be accurately informed on the selection and delisting processes of the program.
“This is to empower the beneficiaries to know their rights and to be vigilant of individuals and/or groups who plan to ...
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28Feb2013TUBOD, Lanao del Norte, Feb. 28 (PIA) -- Three coastal towns in this province are set to benefit from infrastructure projects after Governor Khalid Dimaporo signed the memorandum of agreement last February 18 here. The projects are from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) under its Makamasang Tugon Program and the Australian government through the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID). Four barangays will benefit from risk-reduction projects like construc...
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27Feb2013QUEZON CITY, Feb. 27 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) will sue leaders of those who ransacked their office in Davao City Tuesday. Social Welfare and Development Secretary Dinky Soliman called the incident an act of hooliganism. "We will file charges because this is robbery and damage to public property," said Secretary Soliman in an interview. "Those relief goods are for typhoon Cresing victims," said Soliman as she wondered how the supposed "hungry and nothin...
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25Feb2013CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Feb 25 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), on Thursday, assured that enough funds and relief supplies are in place for the victims of typhoon ‘Crising.’ Social Welfare and Development Secretary Dinky Soliman said that P15.84 million in standby funds, P10.45 million in family food packs, and P42.44 million worth of relief supplies were prepositioned in the DSWD Field Offices 4-B, 9, 10, 11, 12, CARAGA and Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao...
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16Feb2013CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Feb. 16 (PIA) -- The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) launched its new scholarship convergence program dubbed as Cash-for-Training Project (C4TP) during the flag raising ceremony of Cagayan de Oro City, February 11 at the City Hall. During the launching, 10 scholarship/C4TP vouchers were awarded to beneficiaries from the province of Misamis Oriental by Mayor Vicente “Dongkoy” Y. E...
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15Feb2013CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Feb 13 (PIA) -- The National Household Targeting Unit (NHTU) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office 10 will be conducting an Advocacy Forum with the theme “Pasundayag sa Datus (Exhibit of Data)” on February 14 -15 at Pearlmont, here. This will be participated in by the municipal/city/provincial planning and development officers from Region 10. NHTU has been doing its part in providing stakeholders updated information on the activities and a...
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13Feb2013LUNGSOD NG KORONADAL, South Cotabato, Peb. 12 (PIA) -- Iprinisenta kamakalawa ng pamunuan ng Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) ang ilang mga proyektong pangkabuhayan na laan sa mga komunidad ng Bangsamoro. Ang paglalatag ng mga proyekto ay pinangunahan ni DSWD Sec. Corazon “Dinky” Soliman sa isinagawang pagpapasinaya sa Sajahatra Bangsamoro. Ayon kay Soliman, makikipagtulungan ang kanilang departamento sa Department of Agriculture (DA) at Department of Trade and Industry ...
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08Feb2013OROQUIETA CITY, Misamis Occidental, Feb. 7 (PIA) -- A total seed capital of P148,128,500 have been spent for 41,651 Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4P) beneficiaries under the Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) in region 10, as of December, last year. These beneficiaries come from 860 Self-Employment Assistance sa Kaunlaran Areas (SKA) of the region located in 28 municipalities and one city, particularly from the provinces of Bukidnon, Lanao del Norte, Misamis Occidental and Misamis Orie...
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05Feb2013CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Feb 5 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office 10 celebrated its 62nd anniversary, with the theme “Sama-samang Husay, Tungo sa Tagumpay,” by recognizing their partner agencies which greatly helped in the proper implementation of social welfare projects and have provided support during the past calamities that hit the region. In their culmination night held at Pearlmont Inn on February 1, Atty. Araceli F. Solamillo, DSWD-10 regional ...
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01Feb2013CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Feb. 01 -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office 10 is kicking off its week-long 62nd Anniversary Celebration, which starts on January 28, 2013. With this year’s theme “Sama-samang Husay, Patungog Tagumpay,” the celebration includes various sports activities for its employees. On the last day of its celebration, the Department Field Office shall also present plaques of recognition for its strong partners such as the Provincial Governme...
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26Jan2013QUEZON CITY, Jan. 26 (PIA) -- Communities must test and practice their disaster risk reduction and management plans to save lives and properties, the head of the Department of Social Welfare and Development said Friday. Secretary Corazon Juliano Soliman made the call following the recent launching of the Typhoon Bopha/Pablo Revised Recovery Plan of Action at the Department of Foreign Affairs. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) has constantly been reminding loc...
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25Jan2013QUEZON CITY, Jan. 25 (PIA) -- A national recovery plan for typhoon Pablo survivors was revised to improve a system where the international humanitarian communities can better participate. The Typhoon Bopha/Pablo Response - An Action Plan for Recovery will now outline how humanitarian organizations and other institutions can continue to provide life-saving assistance and recovery support to the people of Mindanao in the next six months. An initial action Plan, launched December 2012, required...
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22Dec2012QUEZON CITY, Dec 22 (PIA)- - President Aquino spent an afternoon, December 19, celebrating Christmas with street children in Malacanang grounds. Around 1,500 street children from 17 local government units in Metro Manila were treated with a one whole day fun-filled activities. Called Batang Pinoy Project, the activity was held in two venues, San Andres Sports Complex in Malate and at Malacañang Palace grounds. Children participants showcased their talents in a friendly singing and dancing ...
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13Dec2012LUNGSOD NG BUTUAN, Dis. 13 (PIA) -- Pinangunahan ng Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Caraga sa pakikipag-ugnayan ng mga kasamahang ahensya ng pamahalaan ang isang flash mob sa mga pambulikong lugar sa lungsod ng Butuan kaugnay sa pagdiriwang ng Internationa Day Against Trafficking. Ayon kay DSWD-Caraga Regional Director Mercedita Jabagat na ang dalawang araw na aktibidad ay naglalayung palakasin ang kaalaman ng publiko hinggil sa human trafficking. Noon Miyerkules nagsagawa...
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05Dec2012QUEZON CITY, Dec. 5, ( PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) field offices along the path of typhoon “Pablo” are on alert and ready to extend relief assistance. This was the assurance given by DSWD Secretary Dinky Soliman. She added that DSWD has enough resources with a standby fund amounting to P4.27 million and P43.41 million worth of relief supplies in all DSWD field offices along the typhoon path ready to augment resources of affected local government unit...
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14Nov2012MANILA, Nov 14 (PIA) - - Nine hundred family-beneficiaries under the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Modified Conditional Cash Transfer for Homeless Street Families (MCCT-HSF) project will have a three-day family camping. The camping, held at the Island Cove in Cavity, aims to develop the overall emotional, socia, and physical strengths of these families. The families, from 13 cities in NCR, were grouped into three batches with 300 families or 1,500 individuals per bat...
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29Oct2012AGUSAN DEL SUR, Oct 29 (PIA) -- Some 194 of the 2,000 target beneficiaries selected by the accredited civil society organizations have received the first ever modified conditional cash transfer (MCCT) from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) during the launching at the Veruela municipal gymnasium. Ernestina Solloso, national deputy program manager of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), said that unlike the regular conditional cash transfer, the MCCT caters to fam...
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25Oct2012CATANUAN, Quezon, Oct 25 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development through the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services has conducted a municipal talakayan dubbed “Malayang Talakayang Pangkaunlaran: Noon at Ngayon sa Bayan ng Catanauan.” The Talakayan aimed to draw insights, lessons and identify ways to improve the local governance, citizen participation, community development and institutionalization of the Kalahi-CIDSS process...
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25Oct2012TALAVERA, Nueva Ecija, Oct 25 (PIA) -- A total of 4,459 household families in this first-class town are targeted to reap the benefits of the government’s conditional cash transfer (CCT) program before end of this year. In a recent community assembly (ComAss), which marked the start of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) in the area, in Barangay Lomboy here, Social Welfare Regional Director Adelina Apostol said that targeted beneficiaries were identified based on the result of the El...
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24Oct2012QUEZON CITY, Oct 24 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) will conduct a Poverty Conference on October 29 at the GT-Toyota Asian Cultural Center, UP Diliman, Quezon City to better understand the complexities behind the issue of poverty. Participants are members of the academe, development practitioners, policy-makers, and members of media. In a statement, DSWD said Assistant Director Myrna Clara B. Asuncion, National Economic and Development Authority; Prof. Maricel...
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22Oct2012MANILA, Oct 22 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development in the National Capital Region (DSWD-NCR) and the City of Mandaluyong have signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) for the implementation of Aruga at Kalinga sa mga Bata sa Barangay (Foster Care in the Barangay) project. In a statement, DWSD-NCR said both parties agreed to be partners in ensuring the optimum growth and development of children in need of special protection. The DSWD will manage the implementation of the pro...
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11Oct2012QUEZON CITY, Oct 11 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has partnered with an international child group advocate to train caregivers and social workers on positive discipline. DSWD Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman has signed an agreement with Anna Lindenforns, country director of Save the Children International (SCI), to train caregivers and social workers on positive discipline and change their current perspectives and practices on disciplining. Soliman said the ...
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02Oct2012BUTUAN CITY, Oct 2 (PIA) -- Preschoolers from different barangays in this city, together with their teachers and parents, gathered and performed mass demonstrations as the Universal Children’s Month celebration kicked off today at the Guingona Park here. As an opening activity of the program, children paid tribute to the senior citizens by offering them flowers. Today's activity for the children’s month celebration is also in time with the conduct of the free medical mission for senior ci...
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01Oct2012SARIAYA, Quezon, Oct 1 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development Office (DSWD) 4A awarded a check worth P3,378,960 to the local government of this municipality last September 28. The fund is intended for supplemental feeding program in 59 day care centers in 43 barangays in Sariaya town. About 2,166 day care children are the target beneficiaries of this program which will be implemented within 120 days. The program aims to uplift the nutritional status of day care children i...
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24Sep2012QUEZON CITY, Sept 24 (PIA) -- Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman and Mandaluyong City Mayor Benjamin “Benhur” Abalos Jr. led the National Family Week celebration kickoff ceremony last Saturday, September 22, in Mandaluyong City. The kickoff started with a parade at around 6 a.m, followed by a formal program around 8 a.m. Some 800 participants composed of delegates from the 17 local government units in Metro Manila, DSWD employees, and Na...
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19Sep2012QUEZON CITY, Sept 19 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is set to register additional 208,860 households in Metro Manila as beneficiaries of government’s Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program. In a statement, DSWD-NCR Regional Director Ma. Alicia Bonoan said that community assemblies are now on-going in different cities/municipality in the National Capital Region to register the potential beneficiaries of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, in addition to 65,...
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18Sep2012BUTUAN CITY, Sept 18 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Caraga, as lead agency for the Regional Inter-Agency Committee for Filipino Family (RIAC-FF), stepped up its preparations for the upcoming National Filipino Family Week celebration on September 22-30. DSWD-Caraga Regional Dir. Mercedita Jabagat said that based on Proclamation No. 60, the RIAC-FF celebrates the National Family Week from September 22-30, 2012. “This year, we aim to strengthen family unity and...
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14Sep2012BUTUAN CITY, Sept 14 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Caraga sees the importance of convergence efforts of government line agencies in its implementation of Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan – Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS). During the Regional Inter-Agency Committee (RIAC) orientation on the project, DSWD Regional Director Mercedita Jabagat said the revitalization of a convergence strategy among national government agen...
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13Sep2012ZAMBOANGA CITY, Sept 13 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) 9 has conducted a two-day training-orientation on Pantawid Pamilya Grievance Redress System (GRS) to nongovernment agencies (NGAs), faith-based groups (FBGs) and civil society organizations (CSOs). The GRS orientation was attended by representatives from Kasangyangan Mindanao Inc., Rubber Farmers Association, AKBAYAN, Masidlakon Center Development and the Center for Social Concerns and Development. The or...
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08Sep2012CALAMBA CITY, Laguna, Sept. 8 (PIA) -- Social workers from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) interviewed families displaced by the flooding caused by recent southwest monsoon, during the recent visit in an evacuation center in this city. The visit conducted by the Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (RDRRMC) member-agencies aims to identify the needs of the evacuees, assess the disaster management of the affected localities and determine ways to improve...
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29Aug2012QUEZON CITY, Aug 29 (PIA) -- The bulk of the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) P55.97-B proposed budget for 2013 will be used for implementation of the DSWD’s poverty reduction program. In a statement, Social Welfare and Development Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman said 79 percent or P 44.25 billion is for the implementation of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program where an additional 800,000 families will be enrolled to complete the 3.8 million target household-benef...
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29Aug2012BUTUAN CITY, August 29 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-Caraga region will host this year’s annual celebration of Elderly Filipino Week 2012 slated on October 1-7. Pursuant to Presidential Proclamation no. 470, October 1-7 is declared as “Linggo ng Katandaang Filipino” (Elderly Filipino Week) which aims to promote public awareness of the rights and well-being of elderly people in the country. During the Regional Inter-agency Committee for Senior Citizens ...
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28Aug2012ZAMBOANGA CITY, Aug. 28 (PIA) -- The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) will implement in Zamboanga Peninsula an P85-million cash for training project, which will benefit over 4,000 individuals. “This is a nationwide program and Region 9 has an allocation of P85 million," TESDA-9 Regional Director Lorenzo Macapili said during the Regional Social Development Committee IX meeting last week. Macapili said eac...
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25Aug2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, August 25 (PIA) -- The top official of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Eastern Visayas has said that a new system has been devised to improve the modes of releasing the cash aid and the recording data of the beneficiaries of the government’s poverty alleviation program. DSWD Regional Director Leticia Diokno said the new biometrics system devised in partnership with the LGU-Leyte through its Income Opportunities through Technology Program (ICOT-P) ...
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16Aug2012QUEZON CITY, AUG. 16 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare & Development (DSWD) launched today the Expanded Conditional Cash Transfer for Homeless Street Families (ECCT-HSF) at the San Andres Sports Complex, Malate, Manila. Some 152 street families from 13 cities in Metro Manila were the initial beneficiaries of the program, which aims to provide them with safe and healthy environment, free from hazards of criminality, pollution, and road accidents. In a statement, DSWD said a household be...
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01Aug2012QUEZON CITY, Agosto 1 (PIA) - - Sa susunod na linggo ay sisimulan na ang balidasyon para sa “2012 Huwarang Pantawid Pamilya” ng National Capital Region (NCR) na pinangungunahan ng Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD-NCR). Pinag-usapan kahapon sa isang special meeting ng mga kasapi ng NCR Regional Inter-Agency Committee for the Filipino Family (RIAC-FF) ang pagpili ng huwarang pamilya para sa ikatlong taunang paghahanap. Ngayong taon ay mga 12 pamilya ang pagpipilian na pin...
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29Jul2012PARAÑAQUE CITY, July 29 (PIA) -- The city government of Parañaque has stepped up its anti-mendicancy advocacy campaign following the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s policy to stop mendicancy. “We support DSWD’s efforts to stop mendicancy. We need to put a halt to it as it breeds crime,” said Parañaque City Mayor Jun Bernabe. In a release, Bernabe added that mendicancy (the practice of begging) endangers the life of mendicants, as well as expose them to abuse, indigni...
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23Jul2012QUEZON CITY, July 23 (PIA) -- Who would have known five years ago that financiers and lenders can connect through the internet with the latter having an easier means of borrowing for their entrepreneurial needs? The FINEX Foundation for Entrepreneurship Inc. and the Foundation for Filipino Entrepreneurship, Inc. (FFEI), launched an SME or small and medium enterprises portal to address the needs of the SME industry for easier and more secured access to financing. Last July 18, Department of Tra...
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13Jul2012CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, July 13 (PIA) -- Performance of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program personnel in Northern Mindanao have improved based on assessment conducted by the regional office here. The Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office 10 (DSWD FO 10) launched this week a program review and evaluation workshop (PREW) for the Pantawid Pamilya, said Ian Putong, regional project coordinator (RPC) of DSWD-10 Pantawid Pamilya. He said provincial, municipal and city "links" or pers...
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13Jul2012CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, July 13 (PIA) -- Parents who prefer using corporal punishment as a way to discipline their children ought to think twice. According to Save the Children, an international independent organization providing protective interventions for children, of the many forms of violence that a majority of children experience, corporal punishment is the most common, most pervasive, least reported and least recognized form of violence. Corporal punishment is defined as a punishment or p...
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12Jul2012CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, July 12 (PIA) -- Among all regions in the country, Northern Mindanao ranked first in the updating of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program beneficiaries. This, after the Pantawid Pamilya partner, the civil society organizations (CSOs), updated 24,147 grantees through the use of Unstructured Supplementary Service Data-Beneficiary Update System (USSD-BUS), a technology that will enable the immediate updating of beneficiaries being monitored by the compliance verification cyste...
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11Jul2012QUEZON CITY, July 11, (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is inviting civil society organizations (CSOs) to submit project proposals for the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-funded DSWD-CSO pilot engagement in family development sessions (FDS) and FDS Plus under the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program. The invitation is open to all CSOs actively involved in community development work in the National Capital Region (NCR), Region I and Caraga. Fifteen CSOs will be select...
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11Jul2012CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga July 11 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) allotted P15 million during the first half of 2012 to fund livelihood projects for marginalized families in Central Luzon through its Sustainable Livelihood Program. DSWD regional information officer Evelyn Manalo said the amount ran 89 Self-Employment Assistance-Kaunlaran (SEA-K) Level 1 projects benefitting 1,816 members and 121 family enterprise projects benefitting 121 individuals. Of th...
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08Jul2012CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, July 8 (PIA) -- The 226,899 Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program beneficiaries in Northern Mindanao can now benefits from the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation or PhilHealth. The national government provided P12.028 billion as subsidy for health insurance premium of indigents enrolled in the National Health Insurance Program (NHIP), as well as indigents under the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) of the Department of Social Welfare and...
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07Jul2012CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, July 7 (PIA) -- The updating of data on Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program beneficiaries in the Northern Mindanao region is now 85 percent complete. Kenneth Haze Sanchez, Pantawid Pamilya Monitoring and Evaluation Officer and focal person of the updating of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office 10, disclosed that the undertaking is now 85 percent complete, adding that the field office will hit the target deadline this coming July 10. The dat...
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03Jul2012CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, July 3 (PIA) -- Habitat for Humanity (HFH) International renewed its partnership with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office 10 in providing shelters to survivors of tropical storm Sendong in Northern Mindanao. Mike Carscaddon, Executive Vice President of HFH International, recently met with Araceli F. Solamillo, lawyer, of DSWD-10 Regional to renew its commitment with the agency in constructing core shelter units here and in Iligan City. Car...
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02Jul2012BUTUAN CITY, July 2 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Caraga Region Field Office held a team building workshop on June 20-22, 2012 in Socorro, Surigao del Norte. The team building workshop was aimed at organizing Pantawid Pamilya workforce to work more effectively and efficiently as a team. Director Mercedita P. Jabagat of the Caraga Social Welfare and Development Office said this is one activity that will strengthen and sustain the commitment of the implemente...
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02Jul2012BUTUAN CITY, July 2 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Caraga recently oriented the 42 new project development officers (PDOs) of the Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP). The new workers were oriented on the basic knowledge, skills, and attitude of the program and also the vision, mission, values, functions, programs and services, different policies and rules of the Department that the workers need to adhere to, as well as the details of the SLP. DSWD regional ...
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02Jul2012BUTUAN CITY, July 2 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Caraga region has reorganized its quick response team (QRT) and has recently conducted capability building to its members at a hotel here. Conducted in two batches, DSWD Caraga Regional Director Mercedita P. Jabagat said the reorganization of the QRT of the field office is basically done to refresh the members of their respective roles and functions for future undertaking relative to disaster management. Jaba...
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02Jul2012BUTUAN CITY, July 2 (PIA) -- The National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA) and the Caraga Regional Committee on Disability Affairs led by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has conducted an access audit in Tandag City. The activity is pursuant to the implementation of Accessibility Law or Batas Pambansa Blg. 344, An Act to Enhance the Mobility of Disabled Persons by Requiring Certain Buildings, Institutions, Establishments and Public Utilities to install Facilities and ...
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29Jun2012PANAON, Misamis Occidental, June 29 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has allotted P15.75 million for the Kabisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDSS) projects in Panaon and Calamba, Misamis Occidental this year. Of this amount, P7.2 million goes to the town of Panaon, while P8.55 million goes to Calamba, said Araceli F. Solamillo, regional director of the DSWD-10. This is stipulated in the memorandum of agreemen...
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29Jun2012BUTUAN CITY, June 29 (PIA) -- Caraga once again becomes a recipient of an international grant as the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) finalizes a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Spanish government and three local government units (LGUs) here this month to complement the implementation of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program. Now on its seventh and final year of implementing the community-driven development (CDD) project Poder, Agencia Espanola Cooperacion Internacional ...
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26Jun2012CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, June 26 (PIA) -- The National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA) in partnership with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will be holding a forum on non-handicapping environment (NHE) on July 4 and 5 at the Dynasty Court Hotel, here. The two-day forum, anchored on the theme, “Making a Path to Non-Handicapping Environment,” aims to orient and advocate NHE to local government units (LGUs) for their adoption and to introduce to them the concept of Universal ...
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25Jun2012CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, June 25 (PIA) -- Entrepreneurs of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) needing more money as working capital, business expansion, or financing of trade receivables have another option. The Bank of Makati, the largest rural bank and the fourth largest savings bank in the country, is helping these firms grow their businesses through various loan facilities. "We offer many types of business loans that fit your requirements. Loan amounts range from P300,000 to P300 million. Int...
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22Jun2012BUTUAN CITY, June 21 (PIA) -- The provincial government of Agusan del Norte has institutionalized the welfare programs for children as local officials acknowledged that the youth are the hope of the country. This is what Governor Erlpe John Amante pointed out in his State of the Province Address in the 6th special session of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan held recently at the provincial capitol covered court here. The chief executive of the province emphasized that in order to ensure that childr...
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20Jun2012Some people have never experienced turning the tap, or drinking safe water from a faucet at home. Residents of cities and urbanized towns may take the availability of clean water and other basic facilities for granted, but for those who live in desolate rural areas, these are luxury amenities not accessible to them. Such is the case in a town called Leon Postigo in Zamboanga del Norte, where potable water is highly scarce. People in some barangays have never even heard of water pipes and fauc...
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20Jun2012TUBOD, Lanao del Norte, June 20 -- Graduates of vocational and college courses, including out-of-school youth, who are unemployed, were the recipients to the Government Internship Program (GIP) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). The 662 interns, aged 18 to 30 years old, all came from the 22 municipalities of Lanao del Norte. “This program is of big help to our young residents. They would not only gain actual experience in the real work setting but more importantly t...
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19Jun2012CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, June 19 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD-3) warns the public and its Central Luzon Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) beneficiaries against a text scam. DSWD regional information officer Evelyn Manalo said that a text which states, “Congratulations! This is Lea Ramos of the President Noy-Noy Aquino Foundation 4Ps Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, your sim # won P950,000 as second prize winner in the Handog Pangkabuhayan ...
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14Jun2012CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, June 14 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Regional Office 10, will be tapping the assistance of civil society organizations (CSOs) in the region in the updating of beneficiaries under Set 1 to Set 4 areas of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program. According to a press release by the DSWD-10, accredited CSOs in Northern Mindanao will undergo an orientation on how to go over the massive updating of beneficiaries next week. Francis Alcoran, ...
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13Jun2012LUCBAN, Quezon, June 13 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) of Region 4A Lucena City extension office has released two livelihood checks amounting to P296,000 to two Self Employment Assistance – Kaunlaran (SEA-K) associations in this town on June 4. Chedita Lerum, project development officer of DSWD-4A said the recipients of the fund are members of Hermano Pule Food Vendors SEA-K association which is composed of 25 member beneficiaries. This SEA-K association rece...
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12Jun2012OZAMIZ CITY, Misamis Occidental, June 12 (PIA) –- A total of P300,000 have been released by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) for the Self-Employment Assistance-Kaunlaran (SEA-K) projects in Ozamiz, recently. At P5,000 per beneficiary, the fund was distributed by Mayor Nova Princess E. Parojinog-Echavez, in Barangay Lam-an, this city. The mayor said SEA-K is an assistance to provide capital for the business ventures on projects that would give the beneficiaries employme...
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08Jun2012CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, June 8 (PIA) -- Not less than 300 newly completed houses in the Calaanan Relocation Site were formally turned over to the beneficiary families during the House and Lot Awarding Ceremony today, June 8, at the Calaanan covered court. Mayor Vicente Y. Emano, along with members of the city council, barangay captains, and department heads of city hall, and guests consisted of Leonila Escalada, chief operating officer of Habitat for Humanity Philippines; Efren Uy of the Filipino-...
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08Jun2012TABUK CITY, Kalinga, June 8 (PIA) -- Indigent families in the province will get another financial aid from the government through the P4.992 million cash-for-work allotment from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) this month. Rosemaritez Oyawon of the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO) said the amount is shared by the seven towns and the city of Tabuk in Kalinga, targeting to provide temporary work to 2,447 people. Based on PSWDO’s schedule of fund s...
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05Jun2012CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, June 5 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Regional Office 10, warned the public especially beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program against text scams that are circulating nationwide. Oliver Badel Inodeo, DSWD-10 Pantawid Pamilya Information Officer, said the alarming text message coming from a certain Lea Ramos, which states "Congratulations, President Noy-Noy Aquino Foundation 4Ps Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, your sim...
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02Jun2012CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, June 2 (PIA) -- Hundreds of parent-leaders of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program are now ready to facilitate their fellow grantees for barangay-based sessions after undergoing empowerment as community volunteer leaders in Northern Mindanao. Belonging to the Program’s Set 5 areas, the volunteer parent-leaders from the towns of Maramag and Manolo Fortich an the cities of Malaybalay and Valencia, all of Bukidnon province; Jasaan, Villanueva, Tagoloan, and Opol municipalitie...
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01Jun2012CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, June 1 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DWSD) - Regional Field Office 10 is currently conducting a series of orientation on Expanded Government Internship Program for city and municipal Social Welfare and Development Officers (SWDOs). These SWDOs will assist the DSWD by conducting the same orientation to 4,609 youths qualified for the program throughout Northern Mindanao. The Expanded Government Internship Program provides youth, including those w...
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31May2012ZAMBOANGA CITY, May 31 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) engaged civil society groups, non-government organizations and the business sectors coming from the different municipalities in the region, in a dialogue held recently in Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay. The engagement sought to identify potential partners to aid in the implementation of the DSWD’s Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS), a community-...
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27May2012BALER, Aurora, Mayo 27 (PIA) -- Tiniyak ng Malakanyang na magagawang alisin nito sa paulit-ulit na kahirapan (cycle of poverty) ang lahat ng sambahayang benepisyaryo ng Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) ng administrasyon ni Pangulong Benigno S. Aquino, wika ng isang opisyal ng Palasyo. Sinabi ni Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda na naniniwala ang administrasyon na ang 4Ps ay isang solidong pundasyon sa pagpapabuti sa kalidad ng buhay ng mga Pilipino. Pinalawak na ng pamahalaan ang ...
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25May2012CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, May 25 (PIA) -- Philippine Information Agency (PIA) Regional Office III recently inked a memorandum of agreement with Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office III for the enrollment of the contact numbers of Pantawid Pamilya and Social Pension program beneficiaries and implementers to its Text Blast project. PIA regional director Robert Baldago said “the Text Blast is a Public-Private Partnership project of PIA, National Telecommunicatio...
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24May2012TARLAC CITY, May 24 (PIA) -- A total of 265 poor elderly aged 77 years old and above in Tarlac City have recently received their first quarter social pension subsidy from the national government. The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) personally awarded the grant, amounting to P1,500 each, in a simple ceremony held last Friday at the city hall. DSWD Regional Social Pension Program (SPP) focal person Nitz Infante explained, “The SPP provides a monthly stipend of P500 to indig...
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22May2012Sylvia Apduhan, an elementary school teacher from Titay, Zamboanga Sibugay, shared how the government’s anti-poverty program Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) has improved the lives of many families in her community. “I have been assigned as an elementary school teacher in New Canaan Elementary School in Titay. I have observed that 4Ps has really helped in alleviating the plight of the poor, especially the children,” Apduhan testified. She said she can vividly remember that befo...
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18May2012VIGAN CITY, May 18 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has assisted 206,030 poor and vulnerable individuals and families from the four provinces in Region 1 in the first quarter of the year through its social protection programs According to DSWD Region 1 Information Officer Iryn Q. de los Reyes, the beneficiaries were provided assistance by the agency under its Conditional Cash Transfer Program (CCTP) or the so-called Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, the core s...
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17May2012CAUAYAN CITY, Isabela, May 17 (PIA) -- Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Corazon Soliman visited the province yesterday to check the implementation of the Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program (4Ps) to the coastal towns of Isabela, and forged agreements with local chief executives in the region in implementing the agency’s 4Ps SET 4D and 5. Soliman flew from Tuguegarao City yesterday to the coastal town of Maconacon, Isabela, and met with provincial and municipal offi...
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17May2012CAUAYAN CITY, Isabela, May 17 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) represented by Director Arnel B. Garcia and Mines and Geoscience Bureau (MGB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources represented by Director Mario Ancheta signed an agreement to ensure that all core shelter projects of the DSWD are safe from geohazards. Under the agreement, the DSWD will ask the technical assistance of the MGB before a construction of core shelter will be made, to ens...
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16May2012VIGAN CITY, May 16 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Region 1 through its Social Pension Program (SPP) released a total of P20,344,500 allowance to 13,563 indigent senior citizens in Region 1, covering the first quarter of the year. DSWD Region 1 Information Officer Iryn Q. de los Reyes told Tuesday that each social pensioner received P1,500 or P500 pesos per month, as their stipend for the months of January to March to defray expenses for their daily needs pa...
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16May2012CEBU CITY, May 16 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) -7, in combined efforts with the 79th Infantry Batallion, 3rd Infantry Division of the Philippine Army (PA), deployed project staff and personnel to 11 identified municipalities of Negros Oriental to facilitate the implementation of the activities of the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS). Kalahi-CIDSS is a national project of the Government of t...
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16May2012VIGAN CITY, May 16 (PIA) -- Lawmen arrested a male swindler-client in an entrapment operation held at the regional office of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in San Fernando City, La Union recently. According to DSWD Region 1 Director Marcelo Nicomedes J. Castillo, the modus operandi of the suspect is to go around several DSWD regional offices asking financial assistance. Two days before the entrapment operation, Castillo narrated that he received a call from a client w...
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16May2012ZAMBOANGA CITY, May 16 (PIA) -- The National Government, in its effort to provide livelihood opportunities to poor households, has engaged with the local governments for projects which could be beneficial to the economy of the community as well as to provide income to poor households. Zamboanga del Sur Province represented by governor Antonio Cerilles, Jr. and Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD-9) officials recently inked the Memorandum Of Agreement (MOA) signifying its formal p...
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15May2012CEBU CITY, May 15 (PIA) -- The Gawad Kalinga (GK) did a turnover ceremony for the three-storey building, Condoville 1, located at Barangay Lorega-San Miguel, to its beneficiaries, wherein 18 families were given the first units. Tanny Go, GK Project Director, said that there were criteria in choosing the beneficiaries. On the part of GK, there is this Kapitbahayan Membership Training that the beneficiaries should attend. Another is Values Formation, which constitutes 10 sessions. Lastly, is the ...
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15May2012DUMAGUETE CITY, Negros Oriental, May 15 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Region 7 has partnered with the 79th Infantry Battalion of the Third Infantry Division of the Philippine Army for the implementation of an anti-poverty project in the hinterlands of Negros Oriental. Personnel from DSWD-7 have earlier been deployed to 11 towns in the province identified to benefit from the government’s poverty alleviation program, Kapit Bisig-Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehen...
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14May2012KIANGAN, Ifugao, May 14 (PIA) -- The Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office (MSWDO) recently submitted to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Cordillera Administrative Region the 60 identified applicants for the Government Internship Program (GIP) in the municipality. MSWDO head Celestina Talosig said that they selected the applicants based on the municipal allocation provided by the DSWD complying with the specific requirements that the applicant must be 18-30 y...
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11May2012BANAUE, Ifugao, May 11 (PIA) -- The Ifugao Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO) will hold a training on culture of peace on May 15 to 17 at the Halfway Lodge, in pursuit of the provincial government’s effort to promote family solidarity to its constituents. This will also strengthen the network and enhance partnership with other agencies and peace-oriented people’s organizations. According to Elena Otgalon of the PSWDO, the training is a three-day activity that will be a...
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11May2012PAGADIAN CITY, May 11 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the provincial government of Zamboanga del Sur has recently inked a memorandum of agreement (MOA) for a Cassava Production Project which aims to benefit the farmers of the province. Around 600 households and farmers in the province shall be tapped for the Cash-for-Work program who shall be paid P2,000 monthly for the planting and growing of cassava root crops. The project shall be tested in six municipal...
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09May2012KALIBO, Aklan, May 9 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is set to employ 561 Aklanon Out-of-School (OSY) and in-school youth for 52 days under the Expanded Government Internship Program (EGIP). EGIP, according to the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO) here, is a component of the Kabataan 2000 program that provides opportunities to the youth to work in various government agencies. Evangelina Gallega, PSWDO focal person for youth programs, said...
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07May2012LEGAZPI CITY, May 8 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has recently created a group of men advocates to pursue protection of women against violence. DWSD-5 has organized the Men Opposed to Violence against Women Everywhere (MOVE) in different barangays of Albay, comprised of dedicated male members with active involvement in advocating the elimination of threats, discrimination and violence against women. Male members of MOVE come from various groups including the...
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07May2012LEGAZPI CITY, May 7 (PIA) -- Three provinces in Bicol have been identified as recipients for development interventions in conflict-affected barangays under a peace and development project to be implemented and facilitated by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) under the Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan (PAMANA) program. The three provinces identified by the Office of the Presidential on the Peace Process (OPAPP) are Camarines Norte, Sorsogon, and Masbate. PAMANA is the peace ...
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05May2012BUTUAN CITY, May 5 (PIA) -- The Caraga region will have a lone participant to the National Day Care Federation Consultation spearheaded by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). According to Golda Pocon, DSWD-Caraga Social Welfare Officer, the national gathering of day care federation presidents of the 16 regions and social welfare department’s regional focal persons of Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) in the country is set on May 8 at the Ilocos Region. The offi...
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04May2012STA. CRUZ, Laguna, May 4 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD-4A) through the provincial social welfare and development office (PWDO) in coordination with the municipal social welfare and development office (MSWDO), have started receiving applications for the government internship program (GIP) intended for the in-school-youth, out-of-school-youth and newly graduates at the MSWDO, this municipality. The agency will be hiring young people aged 18 to 30 years old to fi...
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03May2012PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, May 3 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the local government of Malangas in Zamboanga Sibugay for the implementation of a poverty program in the municipality. The MOA for the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive Integrated Delivery of Social Service (KALAHI-CIDSS) was signed by DSWD assistant regional director Zenaida Arevalo and Mayor Alfredo Atilano. The revolutionary com...
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03May2012CEBU CITY, May 3 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development Region 7 (DSWD-7), Field Office opens over 7,551 slots for summer jobs in Central Visayas this year. In a DSWD press release, interns that are working this summer will receive a minimum regional wage rate at P275 per day for 52 days. The department is calling on interested students, college graduates and graduates of vocational courses who are unemployed, to apply for available summer jobs this year. As school opening...
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02May2012LAGAWE, Ifugao, May 2 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) will conduct a forum on Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) among national agencies and provincial/municipal local government units (PMLGU) on Friday, May 4, at the Sangguniang Panlalawigan Hall here. Cecile Unghiyon of the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office said the forum aims to bring together legislators, provincial government officials, national government agencies, and heads of offic...
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02May2012ZAMBOANGA CITY, May 2 (PIA) -- Additional funds will be poured in for the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDSS) project to ensure that this community-driven project will fully benefit the people in the municipality of Manuel Roxas, Zamboanga Del Norte. Governor Rolando Yebes during the municipal orientation and memorandum of agreement signing with this Department of Social Welfare and Development’s revolutionary bottom-up po...
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30Apr2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, April 30 (PIA) -- Around 1,000 applicants responded to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) office’s government internship program in Catbalogan City. A total of 1,145 application forms had been received since April 26 but only 859 participants were interviewed due to lack of time. Most applicants came from Catbalogan City and only one has applied from San Jose de Buan. No one applied from the towns of Sto. ...
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29Apr2012QUEZON CITY, April 29 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development of the National Capital Region (DSWD-NCR) has recently awarded capital assistance to 36 budding entrepreneurs. The 36 entrepreneurs are members of four organized Self-Employment Assistance-Kaunlaran (SEA-K) associations from the cities of Caloocan, Manila, Parañaque and Valenzuela, a release from the agency said. The amount of P325,000 was distributed to the 36 individuals with capital assistance ranging from P3,0...
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29Apr2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, April 29 (PIA) -- Applicants with various backgrounds swamped the Pantawid pamilyang Pilipino program (4Ps) office in Catbalogan as the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) accepted applications for the government internship program. According to Eruisa Ramos, administrative assistant, applicants numbering more than a thousand appeared in the office to try their luck on the employment program. “Graduates, undergraduates, skilled and unskilled came for ...
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28Apr2012CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Misamis Oriental, April 28 – President Aquino cites the undertakings of the government with the objective of mitigating the effects of disasters and in accurately predicting typhoons and other natural calamities in the country. The President announced this during his visit in the city yesterday, April 27, at the Calanaan Relocation Site in Barangay Canito-an, this city, to turn-over some 700 newly completed shelter units to families left homeless by tropical storm Sendong...
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28Apr2012DUMAGUETE CITY, April 28 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Region 7 is in need of 7,551 summer job applicants for its expanded Government Internship Program (GIP). "Interested students and college and vocational courses graduates who are unemployed may apply for available summer jobs this year," said DSWD Information Officer Jaybee Binghay. Applicants from Bohol, Cebu, Negros Oriental and Siquijor, aged 18 to 30 years old, can submit their application letter and...
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28Apr2012LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, April 28 -- More poor families are expected to benefit from the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program also known as Pantawid Pamilya as it sets to expand in at least nine towns in this highland province. Governor Nestor Fongwan and nine mayors in Benguet on Thursday signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to signal the expansion of the program in the municipalities of Atok, Bokod, Buguias, Itogon, La Trinidad, M...
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27Apr2012ZAMBOANGA CITY, April 27 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has organized a two-day Provincial Congress for Zamboanga del Sur Day Care workers (DCW) in Pagadian City. Close to 700 DCWs from all over the province attended the congress. They were inspired with the message and admiration declared by a veteran senator who is a staunch supporter of the Day Care Service. Former senator Ernesto Maceda said, “Commitment to the role is what a day care worker must possess...
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26Apr2012ZAMBOANGA CITY, April 26 (PIA) -- A lawmaker has advised the beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) to be aware of the responsibilities that come with the benefits they receive. “Be updated and know your responsibilities,” said Zamboanga Sibugay’s 1st District Congressman Jonathan Cabilao Yambao to the beneficiaries of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program who were present during the Convergence Caravan held in Alicia, Sibugay recently. Member of committees on appro...
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26Apr2012TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 26 (PIA)-- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) announced the opening of 400 emergency employment slots in the province under DSWD’s Government Internship Program (GIP). Provincial Social Welfare and Development Officer Digna Dalutag said their office is now accepting applications to the program, which provides temporary summer jobs to out-of-school youth, students, and fresh graduates seeking employment. According to Dalutag, the 400 slots for ...
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26Apr2012TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 26 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is allotting higher benefits for the social pension claims of senior citizens in the province this year, with the increase in the number of qualified beneficiaries. Prescilla Daligdig, Provincial Federation President of Senior Citizens, said the number of social pension beneficiaries in the province went up to 1,087 at the start of 2012 from 590 in 2011, or an increase of 497. According to Daligdig,...
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26Apr2012CALAYAN ISLAND, Cagayan, April 26 (PIA)-- Seventy families in this island whose houses were destroyed during last year’s typhoons were benefitted with the core shelter assistance project (CSAP) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Region 2. Regional Director Arnel B. Garcia personally awarded 70 core shelter units amounting to P4.9 million to the island families. Director Garcia handed the checks to the organized Neighborhood Association for Shelter Assistance, an assoc...
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25Apr2012ILOILO CITY, April 25 (PIA) -- The Regional Council on Disability Affairs (RCDA) in Western Visayas has started to plan out this early, activities for the 34th National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation Week in the region. In a recent meeting, Department of Social Welfare and Development-6 Focal Person for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) Judith Marte, presented the suggested activities from the National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA) for the commemoration of the observance on Jul...
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25Apr2012CATARMAN, Northern Samar, April 25 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) provincial office is pushing for the social preparation and profiling of former rebels (FRs) and former militia (FMs) beneficiaries of the Local Social Integration Program (LSIP) under Executive Order Number 2011-10-28-06 series of 2011. A recollection for the said FRs and FMs facilitated by Social Action Director of the Diocese set off the three-day set of activities, followed by a round table d...
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25Apr2012LAOAG CITY, April 25 (PIA) -- Proper use of the database in identifying poor households from the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction will ensure that the government resources are focused on poor families. This was emphasized during the meeting of officials of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office 1 and Ilocos Norte Social Welfare Officers held recently at the provincial capitol here. The database generated system is among the priority advoca...
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25Apr2012TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, April 25 (PIA) -- When school opens on June, 6,343 indigent families from 29 towns in Bohol are assured of benefits under the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps). This after 17 more towns have been included in the Set 6 phase of the 4Ps grants in Bohol, said Aileen Lariba, regional information officer of the flagship social service program. Speaking during the weekly Kapihan sa PIA, Lariba identified the 17 towns as Alburquerque, Antequera, Baclayon, Bilar, Corel...
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25Apr2012CALAYAN ISLAND, Cagayan, April 25 (PIA) -- Forty-two indigent senior citizens in this island have received their social pensions for the first quarter of the year. Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Regional Director Arnel B. Garcia with his staff traveled to personally hand-over the cash grants to the social pensioners and likewise to assess the social conditions of the communities in the said islands. Calayan Island of Cagayan province is one of the hard-to-reach areas of th...
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24Apr2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, April 24 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office 8 through its regional director Leticia T. Diokno issued last Monday the schedule of provincial orientation and deliberation for its applicants of the Expanded Government Internship Program (EGIP). For Leyte, the schedule of interview and orientation will be on April 24 and 25 in Tacloban City while in Ormoc City, it will be conducted at the Pantawid Pamilya Operations Office on April 30...
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23Apr2012CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, April 23 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has forged ties with new 11 local chief executives (LCEs) in Northern Mindanao to ensure and intensify the implementation of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino program in the region. The signing of the memorandum of agreement between the DSWD Regional Office 10 and the LCEs of the new areas under the Set 5 implementation of the program was held last April 18 at Pryce Plaza, here. These new areas are Cata...
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20Apr2012DAGUPAN CITY, April 20 -- A total of 13,563 indigent senior citizens in the region benefitted from the Social Pension Program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) as they received their stipend of P1,500 for the months of January to March. DSWD released the amount of P20,344,500 for the elders of 121 covered municipalities to assist them in their daily needs particularly on food and medicines. Regional Director Marcelo Nicomedes Castillo said the release of the stipend wa...
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20Apr2012DAGUPAN CITY, April 20 (PIA) -- Social welfare and development stakeholders proposed a P4-billion budget for fiscal year 2013 covering programs for the needy and vulnerable sectors. In a budget consultation dialogue with civil society organizations and other social welfare agencies, the Department of Social Welfare and Development incorporated in the budget proposal activities which would resolve issues face by various sectors, said DSWD Regional Director Marcelo Castillo. The said groups an...
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17Apr2012DUMAGUETE CITY, April 17 (PIA) -- Mayors of 11 towns in Negros Oriental signed on April 17 a memorandum of agreement with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) for the implementation of the national government’s anti-poverty program. Said towns were earlier identified to benefit from the national government’s anti-poverty program, KALAHI-CIDSS or Kapit Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services. The signing signals the start of a fo...
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16Apr2012BAGUIO CITY, April 16 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has allocated funds for the construction of core shelter units for the victims of typhoons Emong, Juan, and Peping. DSWD has set P46.4 million under the Core Shelter Assistance Program (CSAP) for the construction of 801 core shelter units. According the DSWD regional director Leonardo C. Reynoso, 232 units have been completed and handed over to beneficiaries while 266 units are being constructed and 303 unit...
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10Apr2012ILOILO CITY, April 10 (PIA) -- Six municipalities in Western Visayas have expressed their interest to implement the National Handicapping Environment (NHE) Project, according to the National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA). NCDA Regional Program Coordinator Ruth Tacujan said the municipalities of Maasin, Concepcion, Batad, Mina and Guimbal in Iloilo province and San Jose in Antique have submitted their applications to the Regional Council on Disability Affairs in the region chaired by the ...
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02Apr2012KALIBO, Aklan, April 2 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the provincial government of Aklan recently held a special over-the-counter cash payout to beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) who were unable to claim their cash for November and December 2011. Beverly Salazar, provincial operations officer of the program in Aklan said the 400 claimants were from the towns of Altavas, Balete, Banga, Libacao, Madalag, Batan, New Washington, Iba...
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30Mar2012DAVAO CITY, March 30 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) supports the bill which calls for the special protection and security to parents, senior citizens and the elderly from economic abuse and financial hardships caused by children and grandchildren who have neglected and abandoned them. House Bill No. 2295 or the "The Maintenance and Welfare of Parents, Senior Citizens, and Elderly Act of 2010” was filed by Party-List Congressman Godofredo V. Arquiza. Congre...
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28Mar2012LEGAZPI CITY, March 28 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) regional office has conducted consultations with the civil society organizations (CSO) in Bicol to strengthen democratic institutions through people’s empowerment particularly in promoting the principles and practice of good governance. DSWD-5 regional director Remia Tapispisan said the interface intends to respond to the commitment of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to integrate citizen’s ...
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28Mar2012CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, Mar. 28 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Regional Office 3 has enrolled indigent households in the San Fernando to the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program. Such enrollment of around 100 indigent households was formalized by the signing of a memorandum of agreement between San Fernando mayor Oscar Rodriguez and DSWD regional director Adelina Apostol last week. In a statement, Rodriguez thanked DSWD for considering his locality as o...
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25Mar2012CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, March 25 (PIA) -- A total of 1,598 families in the 27 barangays of Mabalacat received checks amounting to a total of P3,032,300 from the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) of the national government. Governor Lilia G. Pineda told the recipients that the funds for the program came from the national government on orders of President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III and implemented by Secretary Dinky Soliman of the Department of Social Welfare and Development...
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25Mar2012BANGUED, Abra, March 25(PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development-Cordillera Administrative Region (DSWD-CAR) assured that qualified beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) cannot just be replaced. The issue on the replacement of beneficiaries in the poverty reduction programs of the DSWD was raised because of apprehensions among some quarters that local officials could replace the beneficiaries. Director Leonardo C. Reynoso Reynoso stressed that no one ...
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25Mar2012TAGUM CITY, Davao del Norte, Mar. 25 (PIA) -- A total of 5,360 families has qualified to be recipients of the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps). Recipients of the program received their first cash-out last March 17 at the City Trade and Cultural Center Pavilion. The cash grants awarded by the program are as follows: P500 per month (for a total of P6,000 a year) per household for health and nutrition expenses; P300 a month per child fo...
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25Mar2012LAOAG CITY, Ilocos Norte, Mar. 25 (PIA) -- A total of 12, 256 families from Ilocos Norte have received their cash grants under the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) of the Aquino administration. Provincial Social Welfare and Development officer Lilian Rin said the families who received cash grants were from the 13 towns and a city of the province, namely, Dumalneg, Burgos, Paoay, Banna, Solsona, Dingras, Badoc, Sarrat, Piddig, Vintar, Bacarra, Pagudpud and Laoag City. The 4Ps is a po...
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25Mar2012CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, Mar. 25 (PIA) -- The provincial government of Pampanga is planning to allot P5 million to fund the activities on the protection and welfare of children. This was disclosed by Governor Lilia G. Pineda to the big crowd who gathered to witness the recent launch of the Child Abuse Protection Intervention Network (CAPIN) at the Bren Z. Guiao Convention Center in the City of San Fernando. Pineda said her administration will ensure bigger funding for enforcement of l...
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20Mar2012CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, March 21 (PIA) -- A total of 11,222 poor elderly aged 77 years old and above in Central Luzon are currently benefitting from the national government’s Social Pension Program (SPP). Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Regional SPP focal person Nitz Infante explained that the program provides a monthly stipend of P500 to indigent Senior Citizens who are not receiving any pension, without any permanent source of income and have no regul...
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13Mar2012TUGUEGARAO CITY, March 13 (PIA) -- To strengthen democratic institutions to promote the principles and practice of good governance, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Region 2 has consulted civil society organizations (CSOs) in Region 2 last March 9 to involve them in budget preparation in the different programs implemented by the department. The consultation was based on the Department of Budget and Management’s commitment to integrate citizen participation i...
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29Feb2012TUGUEGARAO CITY, Feb. 29 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Region 2 has released P15 million for the core shelters of typhoon-affected families in the three barangays of this city. Regional Director Arnel Garcia said some 100 units are under construction after they were awarded to the identified beneficiaries whose house were totally devastated by typhoons last year in Barangay Annafunan. Tuguegarao City is one of the low lying areas in the provin...
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27Feb2012ILIGAN CITY, Lanao del Norte, Feb. 27 -- Families who lost their homes due to typhoon Sendong and wished to rebuild their homes in the same area and not in the relocation site will receive assistance, according to Secretary Corazon “Dinky” Soliman of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in a meeting with the officials of the Iligan City composed of Mayor Lawrence Lluch Cruz, City Councilor Bong Abragan and City Tourism Officer Agnes Maingat last week. This...
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22Feb2012LOPEZ JAENA, Misamis Occidental, Feb. 22 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has released more than P2 million to 14 organizations of the Pantawid Pamilya families in 14 barangays from fourmunicipalities of the province. Under the Self-Employment Assistance Tungo sa Kaunlaran Program of DSWD, the fund was released by DSWD-Mis. Occ. to the targeted beneficiaries identified through its National Household Targeting System. The 14 barangays covered by t...
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22Feb2012LUNGSOD NG CABANATUAN, Nueva Ecija, Peb. 22 (PIA) -- Palalaganapin ng pamahalaang panlalawigan ang kamalayan hinggil sa pagbibigay galang sa karapatan ng mga kababaihan at kabataan. Ayon kay Sophia Capio, Gender Focal Person sa tanggapan ni Governor Aurelio Umali, nakapaloob sa mga programa ng pamahalaang panlalawigan ang proteksyon ng mga kababaihan at kabataan kaya isang malaking pagkilos ang kanilang ilulunsad sa ika-8 ng Marso sa Freedom Park tapat ng Old Capitol sa Lungsod Cabanat...
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18Feb2012LOPEZ JAENA, Misamis Occidental, Feb. 18 (IA) – More than 2,000 beneficiaries from four (4) local government units (LGU’s) of the province, recently, received financial assistance from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). These beneficiaries came from the LGU’s with the high incidence of poverty rates from Lopez Jaena, Bonifacio, Plaridel and Tudela. The financial assistance was given under DSWD’s Self-Employment Assistance- Kaunla...
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15Feb2012ILIGAN CITY, Lanao del Norte, Feb. 15 -- P/Sr. Supt. Celso Regencia assured that the “round timber” that the Philippine National Police (PNP) has confiscated as it was hauled along the highway at Sta. Felomina will be turned over to Mayor Lawrence Ll. Cruz. The city police director said there were several people that tried to get logs placed at the office of the PNP-Traffic Division. Initial investigation by the police showed that the logs came from a private proper...
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14Feb2012TUGUEGARAO CITY, Feb. 14 (PIA) -- Representatives of various government agencies tasked on social protection and poverty reduction unanimously agreed to the proposal of the Department of Social Welfare and Development 2 (DSWD 2) to create a new regional committee that will converge the efforts of government towards the fight to eliminate poverty and protect the marginalized sector. The committee, which is initially named Regional Convergence Committee for Social Protection and Poverty R...
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14Feb2012TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan, Feb. 14 (PIA) -- A new concept on social protection and poverty reduction for the Cagayan Valley region was presented today by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to stakeholders in its plan to create a regional convergence committee. Director Arnel Garcia told the various line agencies including the Regional Development Council that the DSWD cannot reduce poverty alone since the problem on poverty is multidimensional and requires coll...
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13Feb2012TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan, Feb. 13 (PIA) – The Cagayan Valley region can become a model in the country’s continuing struggle to fight poverty in the countryside, according to Director Arnel Garcia of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) . Garcia issued the statement during the culminating activity and awarding testimonial party as part of the agency’s 61st anniversary celebration this year. He said that by properly implementing all poverty alleviatio...
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11Feb2012VIRAC, Catanduanes, Feb. 11 (PIA) -- The Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPPAP) recently awarded checks ranging from P10,000 to P50,000 in funding for livelihood projects to 12 former members of the New People’s Army (NPA) in Catanduanes under the Social Integration Program (SIP). The former members of the rebel group received their checks in a simple ceremony held last week at the headquarters of the Philippine Army 83rd Infantry Battalion in Lictin, San Andres. Philip...
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09Feb2012CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro, Feb. 9 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) granted recently an amount of P594,000 to the beneficiaries of Self-Employment Assistance-Kaunlaran (SEA-K) during the convergence caravan held in Bongabong town. The three associations that benefited from the financial assistance were Kabalikat SEA-K, Hawak Kamay SEA-K, and Gabay sa Pag-unlad. Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman, in a statement, stressed the need for unity and...
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07Feb2012TANGUB CITY, Misamis Occidental, Feb. 7 (PIA) -- Gitakda nga 63,998 ka maga pamilya sa Rehiyon 10 ang maka benepisyo sa programa nga “TATSULO,” sa Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), karong tuiga. Ubos sa Strategy on Convergence of the DSWD Core Social Protection Program, kini nga mga pamilya ilalom sa Set 1 ug Set 2 sa Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) magagikan sa 608 ka mga barangay sa 27 ka mga lungsod gikan sa upat ka mga probinsiya sa rehiyon n...
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06Feb2012MANILA, Feb. 6 (PIA) -- Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Corazon “Dinky” Juliano-Soliman has awarded outstanding members of private media during the agency’s 61st founding anniversary celebration held recently. The private media groups were each given the “Gawad Ulat Award” by the DSWD for their support to the agency's various anti-poverty programs and for advancing the advocacy, promotion and publicity of its programs, ...
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06Feb2012QUEZON CITY, Feb. 6 (PIA) -- Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Dinky Soliman has directed all DSWD regional offices to set up Adoption Help Desks in their respective areas to provide free consultations to prospective adoptive parents who want to seek advice on adoption processes and procedures. The establishment of Adoption Help Desks is in line with this year’s celebration of the Adoption Consciousness Week from Feb. 4 to 10. This year's event is focus...
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04Feb2012CEBU CITY, February 4 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD-7) in Central Visayas, in collaboration with other agencies, celebrates “Adoption Consciousness Week” on February 4 – 10, 2012 with the theme “Isulong LEGAL na PAG-AAMPON” as an advocacy event to raise awareness on legal adoption to give children the right to their identity. DSWD-7 news release noted the increasing number of children coming to the at...
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03Feb2012BUTUAN CITY, Feb. 3 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-Caraga urged all local chief executives in the region to establish a Persons with Disability Affairs Office (PDAO) in their respective Local Government Units (LGUs). According to Golda Pocon of the Technical Services Division, only few LGUs in the region have adhered to the provisions set in Magna Carta for persons with disabilities (PWDs). The official said the social welfare department has be...
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03Feb2012BUTUAN CITY, Feb. 3 (PIA) -- In time with the celebration of Adoption Consciousness Week, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Caraga Region, is campaigning for a responsible adoption of children. According to Aldie May Andoy of DSWD-Caraga, this year’s celebration is anchored on the theme “Isulong Legal na Pag-aampon (Campaign for Legal Adoption).” Andoy added that the weeklong activity will commence with a thanksgiving mass at the Saint Joseph Ca...
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02Feb2012DAGUPAN CITY, Feb. 2 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development is set to conduct a media forum on Feb. 10 to raise awareness to the general public on legal adoption processes. Aware of the media’s role in information dissemination and nation-building, the committee devoted one day for the media to discuss topics on detection and prevention of simulated birth, role of media in promoting legal adoption and related laws on adoption. Officer- in-charge regiona...
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02Feb2012BUTUAN CITY, Feb. 2 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-Caraga Region is regularly conducting capacity enhancement trainings for public school teachers in the region in an effort to eliminate if not, to minimize child abuse. This, after study of the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) revealed that majority of child abuse happened in public schools where teachers committed violence against children. &n...
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01Feb2012BUTUAN CITY, Feb. 1 (PIA) -- In an effort to help the youth from abuses, the Department of Social Welfare (DSWD)-Caraga Region is determined to continue implementing the “Unlad Kabataan” program. In a radio interview recently, Golda Pocon of the Technical Assistance Division of DSWD-Caraga said they are giving more focus on the out-of-school youth. She added that because of the implementation of the program, these youth will be provided with trainings that can be us...
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01Feb2012TANGUB CITY, Misamis Occidental, Feb. 2 (PIA) -- Some 63,998 households in Northern Mindanao are set to benefit from the “TATSULO” convergence program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), this year. Under the Strategy on the Convergence of the DSWD Core Social Protection Programs, these beneficiaries under Set 1 and 2 of the Pantawid Pamilya will come from 608 barangays of 27 municipalities/cities covered by the program, from the region’s four (4...
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01Feb2012SURIGAO DEL SUR, Feb. 1 (PIA) -- A total of eight organizations from Lingig town here received today check amounting to some P1.6M under the Self Employment Assistance-Kaunlaran (SEA-K) program implemented by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-Caraga. According to Jerrybelle Gonzales, DSWD-Caraga Project Development Officer, Regional Director Mercedita Jabagat personally handed over the check to some eight associations composed of 165 beneficiaries held at t...
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31Jan2012BACOLOD CITY, Jan. 31 (PIA6) -- Five hundred poor families from various barangays in Bacolod City recently received food packages from the “Bags of Blessing” project of the Metrobank in partnership with some government institutions. Each family received a food package worth P1,000 consisting of rice, canned goods, milk, coffee, sugar, noodles, and a snack pack for children. The distribution of food packages in Bacolod was supported by the Bacolod Police ...
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31Jan2012SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union, Jan. 31 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD-R1) will celebrate its 61st anniversary slated on February 2 and 3 this year at the Civic Center in Agoo, La Union with the theme “DSWD @61: Tuloy-tuloy sa Kaunlaran." According to DSWD-R1 Information Officer Iryn de los Reyes, they will showcase the success stories of various beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program in Region 1 as one of the highligh...
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30Jan2012SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union, Jan. 30 (PIA) -- In response to the Millenium Development Goal to eradicate poverty incidence in the country, various partner agencies of the Department of Social and Welfare Development 1 (DSWD R1) offered their programs and projects to 100 Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4P) beneficiaries in the municipality of Sugpon, Ilocos Sur during the Convergence Caravan held recently in said municipality. According to Alan Lulu, DSWD-1 info officer, thi...
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30Jan2012SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union, Jan. 30 (PIA) -- A total of P470,000 was awarded recently to 55 recipients of the Self-Employment Assistance-Kaunlaran Capital Assistance in Santol town to build the capacities of poor households in starting small enterprise in order to become economically active and self-sufficient. The capital assistance is from the poverty-reduction convergence strategy of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). It is for the development and susta...
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29Jan2012CEBU CITY, Cebu, Jan. 29 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development in Central Visayas (DSWD-7) has mobilized its stress debriefers to conduct psycho-social processing to 62 individuals who lost their loved ones when a killer flashflood and typhoon “Sendong” hit Negros Oriental a month ago. As much as 29 families from the towns of Bacong, Pamplona, San Jose, Siaton, Sibulan, Valencia and the cities of Tanjay and Dumaguete underwent the defusing and debriefi...
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29Jan2012BUTUAN CITY, Jan. 29 (PIA) -- President Benigno S. Aquino III recently said he will ask the National Housing Authority (NHA) to fast track the construction of some 1,700 houses in Bayanihan Village in Iligan City This was the relocation site purchased by the local government for typhoon “Sendong” victims in the city. In his speech during the airing of “Pilipinas Natin” featuring the “Bayanihan ng Bayan Sa Iligan” held recently at the 15.9-hectare relo...
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27Jan2012TANDAG CITY, Surigao del Sur, Jan. 27 (PIA) -- Six Self-Employment Assistance sa Kaunlaran (SEA-K) associations consisting of 115 Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries in Lingig town, this province are set to receive capital assistance from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Caraga Region Field Office under Sustainable Livelihood Program/Self-employment Assistance sa Kaunlaran. To be spearheaded by DSWD-Caraga Regional Director Mercedita Jabagat, the turn-over of ...
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24Jan2012LUBUAGAN, Kalinga, Jan. 24(PIA) -- As part of government’s continued effort to mitigate poverty, 75 families of this fifth class municipality received a total of P557,000 as financial aid from the poverty-reduction convergence strategy of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). Lubuagan is the fourth recipient-municipality of this form of assistance under the Set 1 group of target beneficiaries which include the municipalities of Pasil, Tanudan and Tin...
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24Jan2012SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union, Jan. 24 (PIA) -- The implementation of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4P) will be expanded in Region 1 to include 93,584 potential household beneficiaries. Pangasinan has 60,207 potential beneficiaries from the 20 areas, according to Allan Lulu, information officer of Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in the region. These include Alaminos City, Bayambang, Bugallon, Dasol, Infanta, Laoac, Natividad, San Carlos City, San Fabian, Sa...
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22Jan2012ESCALANTE CITY, Negros Occidental, Jan.22 (PIA) -- Some 33 households with a total of 129 individuals from Brgy. Malasibog, Escalante City, were assisted by a composite team spearheaded by the Philippine National Red Cross (PNRC) Negros Occidental Chapter, a press release from Escalante said. The Red Cross distributed relief goods complementing efforts extended by the local and provincial DSWD. It was led by the Provincial Environment and Management Office (PEMO) and the Provin...
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22Jan2012by Claro A. Lanipa PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, Jan. 22 (PIA) -- To assess the present situation and determine the level of well-being of the Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries in the province in terms of survival, subsistence and self sufficiency, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) will administer a social welfare indicator (SWI) to all 4Ps beneficiaries this month. Zamboanga del Sur 4Ps Provincial Link Evangeline Poquita said the conduct of SWI will cove...
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19Jan2012TUGUEGARAO CITY, Jan. 19 (PIA) -- The supplementary feeding program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has served a total of 19,438 pre-schoolers enrolled in the different day care centers in the region for the year 2011. Regional director Arnel Garcia said the feeding program was aimed at improving malnutrition problems in the region. Food and regular meals provisions are given to currently enrolled day care children ages 3-4 years old, and 5-year old pre-school...
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19Jan2012QUEZON CITY, January 19 (PIA) - - The Department of Social Welfare and Development in the National Capital Region (DSWD-NCR) has disbursed a total amount of P14,032,500 for the 2011 social pension of some 2,657 indigent senior citizens in Metro Manila. DSWD-NCR Regional Director Ma. Alicia S. Bonoan said, “The 2,657 approved beneficiaries for the social pension program were derived from the DSWD National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) data." &nbs...
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19Jan2012BUTUAN CITY, Jan. 19 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Caraga is expected to disburse a total of P161,968,531.62 in the first two quarters of this year through its anti-poverty program called KALAHI-CIDSS. The total amount comes from the World Bank loan of the government given to the region amounting to P137,280,487.93 and an additional P24,688,043.69 from the local cash contribution (LCC) of the implementing local government units (LGUs). Accor...
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18Jan2012OZAMIZ CITY, Misamis Occidental, Jan. 18 (PIA) – The United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has distributed thousands of protection gear to 13,602 families with 68,563 members in the storm and conflict-affected remote areas in Mindanao. This figure already includes the victims of Typhoon Sendong that occurred in both Cagayan de Oro and Iligan City on Dec. 17, last year, as reported by the Camp Management Emergency Shelter and Protection (CMESP) Cluster of the Regio...
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11Jan2012SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union, Jan. 12 (PIA1) – To be able to set the budget for students’ needs and financial facilities, the Department of Education (DepEd) has set the nationwide enrollment of incoming Grade 1 pupils and first year students for school year 2012-2013 to start on January 28, Dr. Marcely G. Macob, Education Program Supervisor II of DepEd-Regional Office 1 said. The early enrollment started three years ago but was institutionalized only last year, in prepa...
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07Jan2012CEBU CITY, Jan. 7 (PIA) --- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD-7) welcomes GMA Kapuso Foundation as its new partner in serving and uplifting the lives of the underprivileged members of the society especially with its new chapter in Cebu. “We welcome partners such as Kapuso Foundation, in helping DSWD reach out to as many poor families as possible. Although they have always been an active partner in times of crisis, it is a good thing that they are now within ...
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01Jan2012MANILA, Jan. 22 (PIA) -- At least 129 new areas will be added in the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)'s community-driven development (CDD) strategy to reduce poverty in 2012. The Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS) will cover 348 municipalities including old areas in 48 provinces. These include the newly identified provinces of Apayao, Palawan, Antique, Aklan, Guimaras, and Negros Oriental bas...
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25Dec2011KORONADAL CITY, Dec. 25 (PIA) -- Department of Social Welfare and Development in Soccsksargen Region has strengthened its poverty reduction interventions by gaining more support from civil society organizations (CSO) and private sector partners. DSWD 12 Assistant Regional Director Gemma Rivera said, these CSOs serve as their partners, guides, and guardians in strengthening efforts to fight poverty in the region. Among the CSOs that have pledged active participation in DSWD's co...
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23Dec2011CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Misamis Occidental, Dec. 23 (PIA) -- President Benigno S. Aquino III has allocated P450 million for the core shelter program of Typhoon Sendong’s flashflood victims in the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan. The President made the announcement when he came to interact and distribute some relief goods to the “Sendong’ victims at the Cagayan de Oro City Central School, the other day. He told the flashflood victims in the city, “Makaaa...
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22Dec2011PASAY CITY, Dec. 22 (PIA) -- President Benigno Aquino III leads today, Dec. 22, the grand Christmas party of more than 1,000 street children from Metro Manila at the Cuneta Astrodome, Pasay City. The President arrived with his celebrity sister Kris Aquino and nephews Joshua and Baby James, sons of Kris. In his message, the President wished the kids with a happier and safer holidays out of the streets. He also assured the children that the government is doing everything...
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18Dec2011CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Misamis Oriental, Dec. 18 (PIA) -– A report of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), as of 6:00 p.m. yesterday, revealed flooding occurred in the city, affecting 22 barangays, during the onslaught of tropical storm “Sendong.” These are the barangays of Agusan, Baikingon, Balubal, Balulang, Bugo, Canitoan, Carmen, Consolacion, Cugman, Gusa, Iponan, Kauswagan, Macabalan, Macasandig, Puntod, Tablon, Barangays 6, ...
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17Dec2011DUMAGUETE CITY, Dec. 17 (PIA) --- Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo recently turned over checks amounting to P825,000 to beneficiaries of the Self-Employment Assistance-Kaunlaran (SEA-K) program in Negros Oriental. Degamo handed over the checks to the presidents of ten SEA-K organizations here during the flag-raising ceremony held Dec. 5, 2011 at the Lamberto Macias Sports Complex. It was witnessed by Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Region 7 Director Ne...
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27Nov2011KORONADAL CITY, Nov 27 (PIA) -- Officials of the regional office of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) assured Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDSS) partner-beneficiaries that the government is committed to continue with poverty alleviation interventions in Soccksksargen Region. Director Bai Zorahayda Taha promised that the government will make sure that the P59 billion fund for the expansion of KALAHI-...
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25Nov2011SAN JOSE, Antique, Aug 19 (PIA) -– Eight towns in the Province of Antique will participate in the implementation of KALAHI –CIDSS (Kapit Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services) program to be funded by the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). Provincial Social Welfare Officer Lazaro Petinglay said an engagement meeting attended by the local officials of the municipalities was conducted recently to discuss the guidelines of impleme...
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29Oct2011ZAMBOANGA CITY, OCT. 29 (PIA) –- Despite the recent encounters between the military and lawless elements in Taluksangay and the bomb explosion in Sangali, it did not stop almost three hundred delegates from all over the Zamboanga Peninsula Region and Isabela City to attend the Regional Youth Congress and the Children’s Congress held in one of the local hotels here, Oct. 26 and 27 respectively. Ma Socorro Rojas of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said, ...
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18Oct2011KORONADAL CITY, Oct 18 (PIA) -- At least 88 parent-leaders from 12 LGU- beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program gathered in Kidapawan City last week for a forum regarding the implementation of the government’s primary poverty alleviation program. The forum - assembly organized by the provincial government of North Cotabato aimed to identify gaps, issues and concerns confronting the implementation of the anti-poverty program, parti...
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05Oct2011KORONADAL CITY, Oct 5 (PIA) -- An official of the Philhealth believes the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) database is an effective tool to prevent social protection benefits from going to the beneficiaries who are not poor. “Gone are the political indigents,” Philhealth 12 Regional Vice President Ramon Aristoza said during the launching of NHTS-PR database in Soccsksagen region at the Protech Center here. The ...
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29Sep2011CALAMBA CTIY, Laguna, September 29 (PIA) -- One of the primary reasons why some children or youths are indulged in drug addiction, child labor, prostitution and other unlawful activities, as generally claimed, is due to extreme poverty. In addressing these problems the government has instituted and strengthened various programs focusing on the welfare and protection of children for them to become good citizens and leaders in the future. One tangible program of the government in nurturing a bet...
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14Sep2011CALAMBA CITY, Laguna, Setyembre 14 (PIA) -- Inaasahang may kabuuang 69,154 na magsasaka t mangingisda sa Calabarzon ang makikinabang sa ‘cash assistance for small scale farmers and fisherfolks’ sa pamamagitan ng programang ‘cash for work and training’ ng Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). Ang ahensiya ay naglaan ng may P237 milyon para sa implementasyon ng proyekto. Sa ilalim ng ‘cash for work,’ ang mga benepisaryo ay magsasagawa ng pa...
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02Sep2011ZAMBOANGA CITY, Sept. 2 (PIA) -- City Social Welfare Officer Francisco Barredo claims that issues on mendicancy is slowly being arrested with consistent efforts of both the national and local government. Barredo said continuous government intervention to minimize vagrancy, mendicancy, mendicants and “rugby” boys and street children in the city has paid off as can be visibly observed. It used to be that these people are visibly and physically present in the city’s main ...
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28Aug2011CENTRAL VISAYAS, August 28 (PIA) -- It only takes education and trust to break away from the shackles of poverty. The local Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) noted this as it continued to nurture the various Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries in Central Visayas that are becoming empowered communities in the process. Pantawid Pamilya regional coordinator, Aileen Lariba reported that there are now 136,958 beneficiaries distributed in 61 local government units (LGUs) in Central...
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22Aug2011CENTRAL VISAYAS, August 22 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD-7) in Central Visayas conducted recently a simultaneous consultation with Boholanos on its two anti-poverty programs at the Bohol Plaza Hotel and Water Paradise Resort. The two anti-poverty programs -- Kapit-bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDSS), a community driven community project and the National Household Targeting System-Povert...
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18Aug2011CEBU, Aug. 18 (PIA) -- The National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (NDRRMC) claimed that the government is ready to respond to the changing weather patterns and the expected 14-16 weather disturbances for second half of this year, In the June 29 Communication and News Exchange (CNEX) forum of the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) in Quezon City, NDRRMC executive officer Ronald Flores said the national and local government agencies has allocated P15 billion to be used for ri...
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16Aug2011KORONADAL CITY, Aug 15 (PIA) -- Families affected by mudslide in Purok 10, Barangay Kinayao, Bagumbayan, Sultan Kudarat will be relocated to a safer area, an official of the Sultan Kudarat Provincial Social Welfare and Development said. Henry Albano, provincial social welfare and development officer, said the victims of the August 12 mudslide are forbidden to rebuild their houses in the landslide and prone area. “The barangay government has alread...
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26Jul2011ILOILO CITY, July 26 (PIA) –- Iloilo City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog gratefully acknowledged the on-going development programs of the national government here. Among the programs that were cited by Mabilog is the Pantawid Pamilya Program (4Ps) or Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) spearheaded by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) which has about six thousand beneficiaries here. It will be recalled that Mabilog earlier described CCT as one of the most important an...
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13Jul2011ZAMBOANGA CITY, July 13 (PIA) –- The Regional Council on Disability Affairs (RCDA) will spearhead the celebration of the 33rd National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation Week on July 17-23, bared Leila Awis of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). Awis said the celebration will kick off with a Motorcade on July 18 followed by a Holy Mass while a forum on the rights of the Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) is set on the 19th. A PWD Congress is also set...
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10Jul2011DAVAO CITY, July 10 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development in Region XI is set to deploy counselors to debrief traumatized victims of the killer flashflood which struck last June 28 in Davao City. Desiree Pingol of the DSWD’s Crisis Intervention Unit said that five children were brought in by worried parents at the DSWD regional office and had also received reports of other children psychologically affected by the calamity. “We’ve hea...
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06Jul2011VIGAN CITY, Ilocos Sur, Hulyo 6 (PIA) -- Tapno masigurado a husto ti pannakatimbang dagiti ubbing kadagiti amin a 39 a barangay ti siudad, indaulluan ita nga aldaw ni Mayor Eva Marie S Medina ti pannakaiwaras dagiti weighing scales kadagiti amin a day care centers. Umno unay daytoy a pannakasukat dagiti weighing scales tapno masigurado ti timbang dagiti ubbingtayo ket maited met ti husto a nutrision kadakuada, kuna ti mayora iti maysa nga interbiu. Iti napalabas adda ‘discrepancie...
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03Jul2011CEBU CITY, July 03 (PIA) -- The Cebu City Police launched a project called “Adlaw sa Mga Batan-ong Libod-Suroy,” (A Day for Street Children) this week as a means to keep children out of the streets and out of petty crimes. CPPO city director Ramon Melvin Buenafe, in a recent Kapihan sa PIA on the Talakayan Sa Isyung Pulis (T.S.I.P.) reported that the Police in Cebu City has initiated the novel project to create a “sense of community” and public awareness on...
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02Jul2011CEBU, July 02 (PIA) -- The government’s National Greening Program has already caught fire among the various sectors in Central Visayas. The program launching on June 25 in Barangay Jaclupan in Talisay City reportedly drew over 20,000 participants in Cebu Province alone, including the Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries in the region. Central Visayas chief executives including representative Eddie Gullas, Governor Gwendolyn Garcia of Cebu Province, Governor Roel Degamo of...
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27Jun2011KORONADAL CITY, June 27 (PIA) –- Officials of the Department of Social Welfare and Development Region 12 (DSWD-12) today assured that they have sufficient supply of relief goods for distribution in evacuation centers in Cotabato City. They also denied that relief goods for distribution are being hoarded in warehouses. Gemma Rivera, assistant regional director of DSWD 12 said, “we have enough goods to serve the evacuees and our operations are continu...
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01Jun2011CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, June 1 (PIA) -- A total of 48,088 marginal farmers and fisher folks in Central Luzon will benefit from the Aquino administration’s cash-for-work program (CWP). Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) regional CWP focal person Precy Tiopengco said the program “seeks to provide temporary employment to small-scale farmers and fisher folks during the lean months and at the same time improve the facilities of the community in time...
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01Jun2011CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, June 1 (PIA) -- An additional 22,000 Pantawid Pamilya household beneficiaries in Central Luzon will now receive their grants through the cash cards of the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP). Pantawid Pamilya regional information officer Jasper Nicolas said the National Program Management already issued a memorandum “instructing the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office III to coordinate with LBP branches for the sch...
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25May2011ILOILO CITY, May 25 (PIA) – Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary Proceso Alcala said the government will provide food-for-work assistance to farmers and fishermen with members of their families as primary beneficiaries instead of granting them a fuel subsidy. Alcala said in an interview with a local radio station that the workers will be paid wages equivalent to the minimum daily rate during the 14-day duration of the food-for-work activities that will include the clear...
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16May2011DAVAO CITY, May 16 (PIA) – As part of its thrust to uphold the child’s right to have a name and nationality, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) launched a free birth registration program to provide legal identity to all children of its Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program beneficiaries. The program which would run for the month of May would accommodate newborns and late registrants from the 4Ps areas covering 31 municipalities and three cities in the re...
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11May2011DAVAO CITY, May 11 (PIA) – The local chief executives of the cities and municipalities in the region have signified full support to the implementation of the rice subsidy program for the small scale farmers and fisherfolks in their respective localities. City and town mayors recently inked partnership with the Department of Social Welfare and Development in a memorandum of agreement, as a take off to execute the rice assistance dubbed as Cash Subsidy Program thru Cash for Training/...
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09May2011STA. MARIA, Davao del Sur, May 9 (PIA) – Some 214 elderly persons in Sta. Maria and Malalag recently endured the rains and trooped to the municipal gym of their respective towns where they received their three-month social pension stipend of P1,500 each. The Department of Social Welfare and Development has launched on May 4 the social pension program in said towns and released the quarterly payouts to the poor senior citizens aged 77 years old and above. Among the recipients in S...
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03May2011KORONADAL CITY, May 3 (PIA) – A program intended to deliver relief assistance to internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Region 12 and neighboring provinces will be launched tomorrow, May 4, by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD, in partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP). The DSWD-WFP Rice Partnership program also aims to promote consumption of iron-fortified rice (i-Rice) among program beneficiaries, according to DSWD 12 Regional Director Bai Zorahayda...
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03May2011DAVAO CITY, May 3 (PIA)-– Some 107 poor elderly in Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur have recently received their share of the monthly social pension stipend for the first quarter of this year. From the 170 potential beneficiaries earlier identified, however, 63 have been delisted in the program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development, because they are already dead. Municipal Social Welfare and Development officer Adelaida Badilles of Sta. Cruz said that the monthly social pens...
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02May2011BUTUAN CITY, May 2 (PIA) – Barangay officials play an important role in preventing violence against women and children (VAWC). Atty. Josefe Sorrera-Ty , in the weekly radio program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-Caraga, said, the basic form of governance starts in the barangay level, thus, the only group of people who can directly help the victims are the barangay officials. Specifically , Sorrera-Ty said the barangay officials can issue...
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24Apr2011DAVAO CITY, April 24 (PIA) – The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) here has extended relief assistance to Overseas Filipino Workers repatriated from Libya. OWWA regional head Zenobia Caro said 54 out of the 56 OFWs who were sent home in the wake of escalating hostility in Libya, have availed of the government assistance. Caro said OWWA has been facilitating programs to assist the OFWs who went home with less or nothing to bring to their families. Aside from the relie...
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23Apr2011KAUSWAGAN, Lanao del Norte, April 23 (PIA) –The local government of Kauswagan is set to formally launch, today, its bridging program called Sustainable Integrated Kauswagan Area Development and Peace Agenda (SIKAD PA). Mayor Rommel C. Arnado said “SIKAD PA” becomes the town’s “bible” for development that would bridge the town’s vision for development and its constituents. “This will tell the world that, indeed, Kauswagan is back on its fee...
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22Apr2011CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Misamis Oriental, April 22 (PIA) -- The City Council of Cagayan de Oro has adopted a resolution requesting for the distribution of the Social Pension of qualified senior citizens ahead of the full liquidation of the government’s “Katas ng Vat” Program Fund implemented by the Departmnet of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). The said resolution was addressed to Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman by Kagawad Dante Pajo of the Sanggunian...
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29Mar2011CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, March 29 (PIA) – Around 60 women-inmates at the Pampanga provincial jail, this city, attended a recent forum on the Magna Carta of Women organized by the Philippine Information Agency-Region 3. The forum, which was held at the conference hall of the provincial jail, served as an education and information activity on the rights of women as stipulated in the Magna Carta and formed part of the Women’s Month celebration 2011. According to Maritess Liwanag, social ...
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27Mar2011CEBU, Mar 27 (PIA) – Seventy-seven national and local non-government organizations and Civil Society Organizations signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Department of Social Welfare and Development Central Visayas (DSWD) to actively participate in the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program. The partnership defines the specific roles and functions of the civil society organizations and DSWD in monitoring and implementation of the poverty reduction programs. This is in line with the...
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23Mar2011ZAMBOANGA CITY, March 23 (PIA) -- Hundreds of women leaders from various sectors of society participated in the Women’s Congress held yesterday in line with the Women’s month celebration. The congress served as a venue where participants were oriented on their rights and privileges as women. Gender and Development (GAD) code, Violence Against Women and Children (VAWC) were among the topics thoroughly discussed in the congress by speakers Dr. Milabel Ho and Geraldine Valbuena of the...
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22Mar2011TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Mar 22 (PIA) -- Positive impact have been noted since the implementation of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). Based on Social Weather Station’s (SWS) study on the program, improvements in school attendance, use of health services, immunization coverage, child nutrition, and knowledge on maternal health services were seen in 2010. The study also revealed that more students and parents attend extr...
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17Mar2011KORONADAL CITY, Mar. 17 (PIA) -- An official of the National Food Authority in South Cotabato said that the Iron-Fortified Rice (IFR) or I-Rice is the national government's response to the worsening problem of lack of micronutrients in the diet of Filipinos. In the launching of i-Rice in the province on Tuesday NFA South Cotabato Assistant Manager Angelina Lucena said the activity is in line with the agency’s commitment “to fight hidden hunger among Filipinos.” Hidden hunger,...
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16Mar2011TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Mar. 16 (PIA) -- The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), also has known as the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program of the Philippines, has been strengthened through the engagement of non-government organizations (NGOs) and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). The partnership is being formalized with a memorandum of agreement which defines the specific roles and functions of the NGOs and DSWD in the monito...
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16Mar2011CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Misamis Oriental, Mar. 16 (PIA) -- The establishment of a temporary haven named, "Bahay Pag-Asa" for disadvantaged children who are in conflict with the law (CICL) in Misamis Oriental is a result of "kurambus" according to Gov. Oscar S. Moreno of Misamis Oriental. “We want to let everybody know that this project was made possible only because of the “bayanihan” or what we commonly call in Cebuano “kurambus” meaning united/co...
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16Mar2011DIGOS CITY, Davao del Sur, Mar. 16 (PIA) -- The province here posted the highest number of poor senior citizens in the region enlisted as potential beneficiaries for the social pension program. Davao del Sur has 2,202 indigent elderly persons aging 77 years old and above, according to the 2010 data of the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). Using the Proxy Means Test, DSWD has identified these senior citizens by ...
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11Mar2011DAVAO CITY, Mar. 11 (PIA) -- Around 7,950 poor senior citizens across the region will soon benefit from a social pension program entitling them a monthly stipend of P500 to augment their daily subsistence and medical needs. The figure forms part of the 145,166 targeted indigent elderly citizens nationwide who will be served starting January this year in the Social Pension for Indigent Senior Citizens program implemented under the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). &nb...
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08Mar2011CAMIGUIN, Mambajao, Mar. 8 (PIA) -- Women enjoys free medical services from the simple cough sputum tests to breast and cervical screening as the town joins the nation in celebrating the Women's Month, this March. The event opened with a discussion on the Magna Carta for Women by Lorna Lago, the Municipal Social Welfare Development Officer (MSWDO) who briefed the municipal employees on the salient features of the law. Drumming up the activity further, a motorcade followed the o...
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27Feb2011CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Misamis Oriental, Feb. 27 (PIA) –- Some P656M was released by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to 87,996 registered beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4P) in region 10, last year. This number of beneficiaries already included the expansion of the 4P’s program in 762 or 37.72% of the region’s 2,020 barangays from 42 municipalities and three cities covered by the program, Atty. Araceli F. Soilamillo, Regio...
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25Feb2011DAVAO CITY, Feb. 25 (PIA) -– The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) here reported that among the children in need of special protection (CNSP) who were served by the agency, neglected children had the highest number of reported cases for the period 2008-2009. DSWD’s standards unit head Alfredo M. Sy bared that the region has recorded 83 cases of neglected children for two years, with 51 female and 48 male. In 2008, the agency served 69 cases with 37 female and 32 m...
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24Feb2011DAVAO CITY, Feb. 24 (PIA) –- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) here engaged on Tuesday various stakeholders from the civil society organizations (CSOs) in a consultation-workshop for the preparation of the department’s 2012 budget. DSWD regional director Ester Acebedo-Versoza underscored the importance of the CSOs involvement and participation in ensuring conscientious, transparent and accountable delivery of social services and the department’s program s...
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16Feb2011ZAMBOANGA CITY, Feb. 16 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has sent off a total of P2,586,287.26 worth of relief goods assistance to 4, 816 families or 24, 247 individuals displaced by flash flood that occured in Jolo town recently. Relief operations began immediately after the social welfare office here received confirmed reports of the flash flood incident. DSWD staff, together with personnel from the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and the provincial and local...
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14Feb2011DAVAO CITY, Feb. 14 (PIA) -- The World Food Programme of the United Nations has recently provided rice assistance to more than a thousand flood survivors from 12 barangays of Malita town in Davao del Sur. Municipal information officer Carmencita Bayucan of Malita, bared that the Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office (MSWDO) has distributed last week sacks of rice which were donated by WFP to the 1,462 flood victims. Bayucan said the families who were affected by the January flood tha...
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13Feb2011DAVAO CITY, Feb. 13 (PIA) -- Some 2,453 poor families in Sulop, Davao del Sur would soon be part of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps beneficiaries of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). Sulop information officer Fernando Cadiansa bared that these potential beneficiaries identified by the Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office, came from the 25 barangays of the third class municipality. Cadiansa said the regional office of DSWD represented by area sup...
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27Jan2011LEGAZPI CITY, (PIA) — Naglaan ng P82.5 milyon na pondo ang an pamahalaang lalawigan ng Albay para sa isang capital assistance ng iba’t-ibang sektor na direktang naapektuhan ng mga kalamidad na tumama sa lalawigan simula pa noong 2008 hanggang sa kasalukuyan. Ayon kay Albay governor Joey Salceda, nangangailangan ng agarang tulong ang labis na naapektuhan ang kabuhayan kabilang na ang mga sektor ng mangingisda, magsasaka, kababaihan, at transportasyon. “Si...
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20Jan2011CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, Jan. 20 (PIA) – Health Secretary Enrique T. Ona is continuously advocating for the “universal health coverage” for all Filipinos especially for indigents since this is one of President Benigno S. Aquino III’s health agenda during his governance. In a visit to the Center for Health Development 3 (CHD-3) here on January 17, Ona said the Aquino administration targets all Filipinos to be covered by health insurance, rationalizing that w...
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20Jul2010CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (20 July) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) will continue to advocate for the implementation of the Kapit Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan - Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDSS) in region 10. Thus assured Atty. Araceli F. Solamillo, Regional Director of DSWD-10, during a recent forum attended by stakeholders from the local government units (LGU), the private sector and the non-government organizations (NGO) who had...
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01Mar2010CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (1 March) -- Some P149.758 million will be needed by the Department of Agriculture (DA) to mitigate the effects of the El Niño phenomenon in Northern Mindanao. Thus revealed Regional Executive Director Lealyn A. Ramos, of DA, region 10, during the recent meeting of the Regional Task Force on the El Niño / La Niña Phenomenon, who said they need to implement intervention programs on the following anticipated problems: reduction of irrigation water...
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14Jan2010Cagayan de Oro City (14 January) -- Effective March 26 until May 10, 2010, no public official or employee will release, disburse or expend any public funds for any and all kinds of public works. This prohibition covers the Punong Barangays (Village Chiefs) and those of government-owned and controlled corporations (GOCC) and their subsidiaries, in connection with the May 10 elections, Atty. Renato A. Magbutay, Regional Elections Director of region 10, said. However, pursuant to Comel...
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