The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has already released more than Php9 million worth of humanitarian assistance for the families affected by Super Typhoon Julian, an agency official said on Wednesday (October 2). “The DSWD has already provided Php9.078 million in relief aid to the Ilocos and Cagayan Valley Regions as well as to the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR),” DSWD Asst. Secretary for External Assistance and Development Juan Carlo Marquez, who is also the agency’s co-spokesperson, said. “The agency’s Disaster Response Management Group and concerned Field Offices remain in close coordination with counterparts in affected local government units […]

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rex Gatchalian on Tuesday (October 1) listened to the recommendations and suggestions of the local chief executives (LCEs) and local social welfare and development officers (LSWDOs) for the further improvement of the agency’s programs and services for poor and marginalized sectors. “Nagpatawag po ngayon ng consultation dialogue ang DSWD, kasama ang ating mga LCEs dahil gusto naming makinig muli sa inyo. Di naman lingid sa inyong kaalaman na naging mayor din ako for nine years sa Valenzuela. During those times, I realized that the solutions will come from the bottom—galing sa atin, […]

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) assured beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) from geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas (GIDAs) that they will continue receiving proper monitoring and program updates from 4Ps personnel who brave the risks in order to reach out to them. “Ito yung madalas hindi nakikita ng ating mga kababayan, yung pinagdadaanan ng mga city at municipal links na tinatawag natin. Kadalasan mga social workers yan eh. Sila yung tumatawid ng ilog, sumasakay sa kabayo, naglalakad ng ilang oras upang mapuntahan laman yung ating mga beneficiaries…kahit sila po ay nandoon sa tinatawag nating […]

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has achieved the distinction of being first and receiving a recognition from the Civil Service Commission (CSC) for attaining the highest resolution and compliance rates for customer feedback, making it to the list of the CSC’s Contact Center ng Bayan (CCB) of Top 10 government agencies with outstanding frontline service for 2024. This achievement signified a historic milestone for the DSWD, as it recorded a 100% resolution rate and 100% compliance rate for customer feedback for fiscal year 2023 and was hailed in CCB’s virtual awarding ceremony dubbed “2024 Contact Center ng […]

As Typhoon Julian intensified into a Super Typhoon, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is stepping up the agency’s disaster response and relief efforts for affected areas, a DSWD official reported on Tuesday (October 1). “For the past consecutive days, we have been communicating non-stop with our Field Offices (FOs) and concerned local government units (LGUs) so that we can immediately provide relief augmentation to their disaster response operations. We are even more alert right now as thePAG-ASA announced earlier in the morning that Julian is now a Super Typhoon,” DSWD Disaster Response Management Group (DRMG) Assistant Secretary Irene […]

The Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program – National Program Management Office (4Ps-NPMO) is calling on all 4Ps household-beneficiaries with pregnant members or children aged 0 to 2 years old to update their profiles in preparation for the rollout of the First 1000 Days (F1KD) conditional cash grant in 2025. “The updating of profiles is crucial to ensure that we cover all 4Ps households with pregnant members and children not more than 2 years old in the implementation of the F1KD condition under the 4Ps,” 4Ps National Program Manager and Director Gemma B. Gabuya said […]

A senior official of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) assured households affected by a recent fire incident in Barangay 105 in Tondo, Manila that the agency will assist them towards full recovery. “Ibinibilin po palagi ni Pangulong Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. na kung tutulong ang DSWD…dapat yung talagang nararamdaman. Kung ang family food packs po ay makakatulong, iyon po ang ibinibigay namin. Kung kailangan po ng second or third round , after the assessment, gagawin po natin yan,” DSWD Undersecretary for Disaster Response Management Group (DRMG) Diana Rose Cajipe told the affected beneficiaries during the payout activity […]

As part of its proactive approach to disaster management, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), through its Field Offices (FO) in Northern Luzon, continues to preposition family food packs (FFPs) and other relief items for augmentation support to local government units (LGUs) along the track of Typhoon Julian. “Two weeks ago ay nakapagpadala tayo ng FFPs in Batanes kaya mayroon tayong naka-preposition na food packs na nasa mahigit 17,000 . ‘Yan po ay madaling maa-access ng ating mga kababayan,” DSWD Disaster Response Management Group (DRMG) Asst. Secretary Irene Dumlao said in an interview on Monday (September 30) over […]

Some 2,006 households affected by a recent fire in Barangay 105 in Tondo, Manila received financial assistance under the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Emergency Cash Transfer (ECT) Program on Monday (September 30). During the payout at the Vicente Lim Elementary School, the Department provided ECT assistance worth Php10,140 to each affected family. Present to oversee the payout activity were DSWD Undersecretary for Disaster Response Management Group (DRMG) Diana Rose Cajipe and DSWD Field Office-National Capital Region Asst. Regional Director Bienvenido Jr. V. Barbosa. Also present were Manila Mayor Honey Lacuna, Vice Mayor Yul Servo Nieto, and Councilor […]