In its continuing efforts to promote and strengthen family unity and relationship, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), as Chair of the National Committee on the Filipino Family (NCFF), led the Filipino nation in joining families worldwide to celebrate the International Day of Families (IDF) today, May 15. This year’s celebration highlights the subtheme: “Pamilyang Pilipino: Pagtugon aa Nagbabagong Pananaw At Panahon,” from the United Nations’ International Day of Families’ Theme: “Families and Demographic Change.” “We are gathered here today in observance of the International Day of Families. This momentous occasion is a celebration of having strong, resilient […]

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 […]