July 16, 2025
July 16, 2025
July 16, 2025
June 19, 2025
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the Council for Climate and Conflict Action Asia (CCAA) are working on the Kasama Katutubo Project—an effort to better understand the needs of Indigenous Cultural Communities/Indigenous Peoples (ICCs/IPs) and make government programs more responsive and respectful of their way of life. One of the main goals of the project is to develop a new survey tool that will gather information about IPs’ values, resilience, culture, and goals. “In order for us to come up with programs that will suit the IP communities, we have to first know who they are, we […]
June 3, 2025
Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rex Gatchalian and Marawi City Mayor Majul Gandamra signed on Tuesday (June 3) a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) formalizing the implementation of “Project Riayah.” The new project aims to provide social protection services to orphaned, abandoned, neglected, and poor children under the care of torils in Marawi City. Torils are private educational institutions that provide Qur’an memorization, Arabic language learning, and/or instruction on Islamic values and laws within a residential setting. Also present to witness the MOA signing at the DSWD Central Office were Undersecretary Fatima Aliah Dimaporo of the DSWD Legislative […]
May 23, 2025
“Ako ang pangarap ko… normal na normal dapat yung inaalagaan yung mga bata. Hindi na kami dapat nagtatanong kung anong dapat gusto ninyo. Kundi normal na normal na sa inyong komunidad na napapakinggan kayo, na hindi tinatanong. Dapat mainstream siya, hindi dahil may espesyal na hakbang lagi para mapakinggan kayo.” This is how Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rex Gatchalian described the future he wishes for children around the country and beyond, as conveyed in his open dialogue with children-participants during an Open Government session held on Thursday (May 22). Dubbed “Making Spaces: Children Driving Change for […]
May 9, 2025
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has extended immediate psychosocial intervention and other protective services to the 10 trafficked minors who were recently rescued in Sual, Pangasinan. “These children have been through traumatic experiences and require safety, emotional healing, and long-term support. Ipinag-utos ng ating kalihim na si Secretary Rex Gatchalian na sila ay agad tulungan para maka-recover at ma-reintegrate sa kanilang mga pamilya at komunidad,” Assistant Secretary Irene Dumlao, who is also the DSWD spokesperson, said on Friday (May 9). The rescue operation was conducted on May 1 by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Cybercrime Division […]
April 23, 2025
April 3, 2025