The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), in coordination with local government units (LGUs), is looking for other ways to distribute food packs and hygiene kits, as well as to deliver its other programs and services while ensuring that the distribution process observes the enhanced community quarantine regulations for COVID-19.  In keeping with quarantine continue reading : DSWD, LGUs ensure distribution of aid to locals, observe safety protocols

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has started delivering food and non-food essentials to local government units (LGUs) that have requested for augmentation support amid the enforcement of community quarantine due to COVID-19.  The Department emphasized that it intensified its coordination with LGUs in identifying target beneficiaries, distribution points, and strategies to ensure continue reading : DSWD delivers food aid to LGUs, adheres to safety protocols

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), in coordination with local government units (LGUs), is set to provide family food packs and non-food items to families and individuals during the implementation of the community quarantine in Luzon due to COVID-19. This is part of the DSWD’s Technical Assistance and Resource Augmentation (TARA) mandate to continue reading : DSWD, LGUs to provide food, non-food aid to families during quarantine period

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) clarified that beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) will continue to receive their grants and rice subsidy through their cash cards amid enforcement of the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon, emphasizing that only 4Ps activities that require mass gathering are suspended. DSWD also reiterated that continue reading : 4Ps beneficiaries continue to receive grants, rice subsidy during quarantine period

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has issued its own guidelines in support to the directives of President Rodrigo Duterte to further control the spread of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in the country. DSWD Secretary Rolando Joselito D. Bautista signed on March 14 Department Advisory Number 1 titled, “Guidelines for the Prevention, Control, and continue reading : DSWD bares measures to support Pres. Duterte’s directives to stop spread of COVID-19

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rolando Joselito D. Bautista (center) and Starboard Foundation, Inc. President Manuel M. Gorobat Jr. (right) sign the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the provision of employment opportunities to DSWD’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) beneficiaries. Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III (left) witnesses continue reading : DSWD, Starboard sign agreement to provide job opportunities to 4Ps beneficiaries

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD Secretary Rolando Joselito D. Bautista (2nd from left) and Presidential Commission on Urban Poor (PCUP) Chairman Alvin SJ. Feliciano, National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) Chairman Allen A. Capuyan, and National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) Secretary Noel K. Felongco (right),    sign the Joint Memorandum Circular (JMC) No. 1, Series continue reading : DSWD harmonizes social protection programs with PCUP, NCIP, NAPC

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has released P137.6 million in financial assistance for some 1,376 decommissioned former combatants of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) during a payout in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao on February 21. The payout was the second phase of decommissioning activities where the Department distributed P80,000 each to the continue reading : DSWD releases P137.6M cash aid for former MILF combatants

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) partnered with  volunteers from two academic institutions to provide psychosocial first aid (PFA) to internally displaced persons (IDPs) affected by the eruption of the Taal Volcano at Talaibon evacuation center, Ibaan, Batangas. The two institutions were the Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University-College of Graduate Studies (DMMMSU-CGS), continue reading : Academe, DSWD work together to provide psychosocial first aid to Taal evacuees

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) extended P10,000 financial assistance, through the Department’s Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation (AICS),  to some 22 repatriates from Wuhan during the payout held in Clark City on February 22.   The repatriates completed their 14-day quarantine under the strict rules and regulations implemented by the Department of continue reading : DSWD extends cash aid to repatriates from Wuhan