The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), through its Oplan Pag-Abot Team, continues to conduct reach-out operations to families and individuals in street situations in Metro Manila, amid the heavy rains brought about by the ‘Habagat’ induced by Super Typhoon Egay and now Falcon over the past few days.

The DSWD team was joined by representatives from the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), and the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) during the conduct of actual operations and in processing the information, including biometrics of the reached-out clients, as well as assessment of their needs at the designated centers around the National Capital Region (NCR).

The Pag-Abot operations are being conducted with the assistance of the local government units (LGUs) of the cities of Caloocan, Pasay and Manila.

Oplan Pag-Abot is the recently-launched project of the DSWD that aims to reach out to people living and staying on the streets by providing them with necessary interventions to address their immediate and long-term needs. #