Discussions on the Thursday (May 29) Media Forum centered on the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) thrusts to ensure that Filipinos are capacitated as they face both changes and challenges brought about by the digital era and pressing issues of climate change and natural calamities. Undersecretary Vilma Cabrera of the Conditional Cash Transfer Group (CCTG) briefed reporters on the “e-Panalo para sa Kinabukasan” which champions the DSWD’s goal to instill the values of financial empowerment among members of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) amid the fast-evolving digital economic landscape. For her part, Director Maria Isabel Lanada of […]

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rex Gatchalian flies to Palawan on Thursday (May 29) to lead two significant milestone events for the beneficiaries of the agency’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) in the island province. The DSWD chief supervised the phone distribution to 4Ps beneficiaries, including Indigenous Peoples, from the towns of Bataraza and Brooke’s Point, as part of the agency’s ‘e-Panalo ang Kinabukasan’ initiative which promotes digital financial literacy among program members. Following the phone distribution, Secretary Gatchalian, on behalf of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr, greeted the graduating 4Ps members from the two municipalities during […]

Representatives from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and GCash guide beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) from the Province of Palawan in registering their GCash e-wallet accounts during the “e-Panalo ang Kinabukasan” digital financial literacy initiative. The GCash registration is part of the two-day simultaneous digital financial literacy session which aims to ensure faster, more secure, and more convenient distribution of conditional cash transfer to eligible 4Ps household beneficiaries. The e-Panalo ang Kinabukasan initiative was held on May 27 and 28 at the Bataraza Town Center in the municipality of Bataraza and at the Saraza […]

Members of the Pag-abot reach out team of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) visited on Wednesday (May 28) the vicinity at the corner of Rufino and Adelantado Streets in Salcedo Village, Barangay Bel-Air in Makati City in an effort to locate the woman who surfaced from a sewerage in the area. Once the woman’s whereabouts have been traced, the Pag-abot team will reach out to her and provide appropriate interventions such as temporary shelter. Under the Pag-abot program, social workers roam around Metro Manila 24 hours a day and seven days a week to convince families and […]