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March 27, 2023

Community project under DSWD revives marine ecosystem battered by typhoons

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) prioritizes the importance of implementing programs that protect the environment from the impacts of climate change. One of these is the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDSS), a community-driven development program that empowers poor municipalities to identify, plan, implement, and monitor sub-projects that will address the problems of their localities. Some of the project workers at the Rehabilitation Sheltered Workshop who are assigned in garment products section. In Oslob, Cebu, residents of the coastal barangay of Gawi received sets of artificial reefs from KALAHI-CIDSS to revive […]

March 13, 2023

DSWD centers and facilities: Enabling persons with disabilities towards self-sufficiency

As part of its mandate to protect and promote the welfare of all Filipinos, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) continues to empower persons with disabilities by enabling them to become more productive members of society through its Centers and Residential Care Facilities around the country. Left photo: DSWD Secretary Rex Gatchalian (in red shirt) with the personnel of the National Vocational Rehabilitation Center during his first visit to Centers and Residential Care Facilities of the Department.Right photo: Analyn Luyao, one of the persons with disabilities employed at the Rehabilitation Sheltered Workshop through its sheltered employment program. Among […]

March 13, 2023

Former 4Ps beneficiary reaches dream to become a teacher

Graduation photos of Rigine Ulgasan, a Pantawid sa Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) beneficiary who passed the 2022 Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET). Holding on to her dream for a better life for her family, Rigine Ulgasan faced various challenges in life in order to become a teacher. Rigine grew up as the eldest of four siblings in a simple household in Calatrava, Negros Occidental. Her father was a habal-habal driver while her mother was a Barangay Health Worker. Because of poverty, her parents had to work multiple jobs to sustain their family. “Hindi sapat ang kita ng aking mga magulang […]

February 17, 2023

DSWD’s Yakap Bayan Program helps former drug surrenderer find redemption

Fifty-three-year-old Jungie, a resident of Barbaza, Antique, openly confessed to getting involved with illegal drugs, which eventually resulted in his painful separation and estrangement from his family. Jungie used to work as a public utility vehicle (PUV) driver, and a loving husband to Joy and caring father to two boys and one girl. His only girl, however, died in 2017. Losing direction While working, Jungie also had to look after his children as his wife was an overseas Filipino worker. According to him, being the only one looking after his children was, indeed, difficult. “Ang aking asawa ay isang OFW […]

January 27, 2023

DSWD’s partnership with TESDA paves way for women to excel in skilled labor

As part of its continued thrust to institutionalize gender and development (GAD), the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office (FO) VIII partnered with the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) to train women on skills that are considered as fit only for men. Recently given a special citation by the Philippine Commission on Women and the National Anti-Poverty Commission, DSWD FO VIII’s GAD best practice provided livelihood skills training to the women-beneficiaries of the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS) of Almeria, Biliran on plumbing and masonry. Photos show the women […]

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