Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rex Gatchalian and United Nations World Food Programme (UN-WFP) Country Director Regis Chapman sign the transfer of property formally handing over the ownership of a mobile kitchen unit to the DSWD. During a simple ceremony on Tuesday (April 22) at the DSWD’s Disaster Response Command Center (DRCC), Secretary Gatchalian expressed his gratitude to the UN WFP for their generous donation. The new mobile kitchen will be immediately sent to the DSWD Field Office 5-Bicol Region to help in their disaster response operations. Other officials present in the turnover ceremony were Undersecretary Diana […]

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)Secretary Rex Gatchalian meets with a team from the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) led by Focal Commissioner for Children and Older Persons Beda Angeles Epres on Monday (April 21) to explore areas of collaboration on promoting the rights of the two sectors. Secretary Gatchalian was joined by Undersecretary Adonis Sulit of the DSWD’s Policy and Plans Group (PPG) in the meeting with CHR officials held at Central Office in Quezon City. Commissioner Epres was joined by Executive Assistant Graciela Ann Awkit-Dhami, OIC-Director Jerrick Gerard Go, OIC-Chief Rezalyn Ylagan, OIC-Chief Ma. Victoria Diaz, and […]

Some 3,000 beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) join the ‘Trabaho sa Bagong Pilipinas’ job fair in San Fernando City, Pampanga on Monday (April 21). The job fair was organized by the DSWD, in partnership with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and other key government agencies, to help 4Ps beneficiaries obtain employment opportunities and other services necessary for pre-employment processing. Present to oversee the activity were DSWD Undersecretary Vilma Cabrera of the DSWD’s Conditional Cash Transfer Group (CCTG); Assistant Secretary Marites Maristela of the CCTG; Assistant Secretary for Community Engagement Ulysses Hermogenes Aguilar; Director Gemma Gabuya […]

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Undersecretary Edward Justine Orden of the General Administration and Support Services Group (GASSG) leads on Monday (April 21) the ceremonial groundbreaking for the 2-level parking building to be constructed at the DSWD Central Office grounds in Quezon City. The 2-level parking building aims to provide a safer parking space for agency personnel, partners, and stakeholders. This is in line with the Department’s vision to improve its services and facilities to ensure efficient operations. Joining Undersecretary Orden for the symbolic capsule laying of the project’s plans are Assistant Secretary Gina Wenceslao of the GASGG; […]

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rex Gatchalian and Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Teodoro Herbosa meet on Wednesday (April 16) to discuss updates on the implementation of the Philippine Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Project (PMNP). The PMNP aims to reduce stunting in targeted localities by adopting a multi-sectoral nutrition approach to deliver a coordinated package of nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions across various local government unit (LGU) platforms together with harmonized social behavior change and communication strategy. Accompanying Secretary Gatchalian in the meeting held at the DOH Central Office in Manila were DSWD Undersecretary Monina Josefina Romualdez of the Operations […]

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rex Gatchalian is pleased with the approval of the Reducing Food Insecurity and Undernutrition with Electronic Vouchers (REFUEL) Project by the National Economic and Development Authority – Investment Coordination Committee Cabinet Committee (NEDA ICC-CabCom), which will support the scale up of the Walang Gutom Program, formerly the agency’s Food Stamp Program, for 2025-2028. The REFUEL Project is under the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and will be co-financed by Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Fund for International Development. The approval was made during a meeting […]

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) spokesperson Assistant Secretary Irene Dumlao responds to questions from the media on the agency’s poverty alleviation and anti-hunger initiatives during the Press Briefing held at Malacañang on Monday (April 14). While recognizing the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey results on hunger and poverty, Asst. Secretary Dumlao asserts that the Government is on track in achieving its goal of having a single digit poverty incidence by 2028. The DSWD spokesperson said the Agency continues to intensify its programs like the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) and Walang Gutom Program (WGP) that both contribute […]

The Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Psychological First Aid (PFA) providers meet with the members of the Philippine Rapid Response Deployment Team (PRRDT) on Saturday night (April 12) to discuss updates on the conduct of the first day of the ‘Kamustahan’ or psychosocial counseling sessions with individuals affected by the 7.7 magnitude quake that hit Myanmar on March 28. On the first day of the ‘Kamustahan’, the PFA team provided 27 survivors with psychosocial intervention with three individuals having separate sessions with the psychologist for more intensive counseling. Representatives from the Department of Health (DOH), Department of Foreign […]

The Psychological First Aid (PFA) providers from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) have arrived in Yangon, Myanmar on Friday (April 11) to provide psychosocial counseling for the Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), mostly teachers, who were affected by the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that hit this Southeast Asian country. Upon arrival, the PFA providers, together with officials from the Philippine Embassy in Myanmar and the family members of the two Filipino fatalities, received the ashes of the victims. The PFA providers, composed of a psychologist and social workers, will conduct orientation and planning activities this Saturday (April 12) for […]