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March 22, 2025

Real Life Stories – DSWD’s Project LAWA and BINHI makes water reservoir atop a mountain possible in La Union town

Members of the Sitio Atik Farmers Association, Inc. worked in unity to build their most cherished Small Farm Reservoir (SFR) atop a mountain in their village that is now their source of income providing food on the table for their families A community in Caba town in La Union continues to benefit from a small farm reservoir (SFR) made through the Project LAWA (Local Adaptation to Water Access) and BINHI (Breaking Insufficiency through Nutritious Harvest for the Impoverished) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). Climate change has brought many adverse changes in the community and the locals […]
March 14, 2025

Real Life Stories – 4Ps eased away our worries about schooling, says former monitored child now criminology exam passer

The Molina couple of Sta. Cruz, Ilocos Sur never stopped making both ends meet for their three children. Pastor Molina was a farmer while his wife Venecia occasionally worked as a house helper and took laundry jobs. While exerting all efforts to make both ends meet, sending their children to school was still a struggle for the couple. In 2009, Venecia attended an interview conducted by the government in their area. She did not know what it was for, but she was looking forward to any help from the government. Later on, she found out that her family qualified for […]
March 7, 2025

Real Life Stories – DSWD’s Kalahi CIDSS turns La Union town’s decades-old dream for paved road into reality

Townsfolk from Barangay Alibangsay in Bagulin town in La Union had always wished for a cemented road to help them in their daily lives. A mountainous and hilly community, villagers were forced to navigate an uneven path in their barangay, which becomes muddy during rainy days. This community challenge ended when the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDSS) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) was introduced to the locality. Through the KALAHI-CIDSS, a Php4.5 million project was implemented to improve the 315 linear meter access road at Sitio Purao in Barangay Alibangsay. […]
February 11, 2025

Ecotourism spot in Tarlac town blooms with DSWD’s Project LAWA and BINHI

In Barangay Sta. Monica in Moncada town in Tarlac, a once empty and unused piece of land is now an ecotourism spot that features a community garden and fishpond, all taking shape not only from an enriching environment, but also of the residents’ strong sense of ‘bayanihan’ amid trying times. Krystal Dantes, the Municipal Social Welfare and Development Officer (MSWDO) of Sta. Monica said bringing the once vacant lot to its current state was not an overnight transformation. It was even built at the height of dry spells in 2024 that brought various challenges to the farmers in many parts […]
July 16, 2023

4Ps empowers beneficiaries through Family Development Sessions

Getting out of poverty and living a comfortable life has always been the dream of Cherry and Virgilio Canales for their family. The couple, from Balangkayan, Eastern Samar, worked hard to provide for the needs of their four children. Cherry earned a living by buying and selling copra while Virgilio did sideline work like carpentry. Members of the Canales family are proud of what they have achieved as a 4Ps program beneficiary. Their combined income, however, was still not enough to sustain the increasing needs of their family, especially since all of their children were attending school. Fortunately in 2012, […]
June 23, 2023

Real life stories behind 4Ps – Former 4Ps monitored child fulfills dream of becoming a seaman

“Mahirap mag-aral pero mas mahirap ‘yong walang pinag-aralan.” (It is hard to study but it is even harder to be uneducated). This was Ronel Desales’ motivation to finish his studies and realize his simple dream of providing a better life for his family. The 23-year-old Ronel grew up in a poor family living in the town of Maayon in Capiz. He is the youngest among the seven children of Casilda Desales, a widow. Ronel Desales and his mother, Casilda, during the college graduation ceremony at the Colegio de la Purisma Concepcion in Roxas City. Ronel graduated magna cum laude and […]
May 19, 2023

Real Life Stories Behind 4Ps – Former 4Ps beneficiary and ESGPPA grantee now a Public School teacher

Education is one of the effective weapons to fight poverty. This was the belief carried by Kimberly Velasco Jumuad as she grew up in the coastal area of Dipolog, Zamboanga Del Norte. Kimberly came from a poor household with five members. She was the youngest of three siblings. Growing up, she saw the struggles of her parents to sustain their family. “I grew up witnessing the hard work and sacrifices of my parents which are evident through their sweat, their white hair, their skin discoloration nanglagum na agi sa kainit (burned from the scorching heat). The pain and exhaustion every […]
May 15, 2023

4Ps on the right track of breaking inter-generational poverty with family-beneficiaries welcome graduation from 4Ps

A family-beneficiary of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) from Los Banos, Laguna, will soon exit from the program and the Fajardo family is not at all anxious of what the future brings, but still they welcome their graduation from 4Ps with open arms. Such is the ultimate goal of 4Ps – for family-beneficiaries to graduate from the program because they have already been equipped with the skills and knowledge to complete their life’s journey towards achieving self-sufficiency. From uncertainty to a brighter future This sums up the Fajardo family’s journey in life. Back in 2006, the Fajardo family hopped […]
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