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 […]

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 […]

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 […]