‘Sendong’ survivor is incoming freshman of UP Diliman
Cagayan de Oro City — Rene Liboon Principe, Jr. and his family almost drowned to death when Tropical Storm Sendong inundated Northern Mindanao on December 16, 2011. The Principe family, a beneficiary of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, was among the families affected by the flash flood brought about by heavy rains. Rene Jr.’s father, Rene Sr., woke them up when the water was knee-high inside their house in Zone 4, Pasil, Barangay Kauswagan, which is along the city’s main river ...
Pantawid’s promise to reduce poverty
‘Does Pantawid deliver the intended results? The evidence says yes,’ writes the country director of the Asian Development Bank It’s time to set the record straight on the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino conditional cash transfer program – one of the biggest of its kind in the world, and an increasingly effective weapon in the fight against poverty in the Philippines. Recent media reports have created false impressions of Pantawid “leakages,” despite evidence that it is achieving its goals – improving health, ...
Cash Transfer Gives Poor Children in the Philippines Chance of a Good Education
Life is hard for the Ewican family on the Philippine island province of Bohol. Genaro Jr, 45, wakes up at 5 a.m. every day to walk to a nearby rice farm he tends to. Until 7 a.m., when he returns home for a quick breakfast of rice and vegetable soup, he goes about his daily tasks while occasionally driving birds away from the crop with a slingshot. The rest of his day is spent at a coconut plantation, where he ...
Humble backyard garden provides food on the table, generates additional income
Bringing food on the table is a primary concern of every family, more so for a poor family with little or no income at all to sustain nutritious meals. To help address this, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) included the topic “Bio-Intensive Gardening (BIG)” in its enhanced modules for Family Development Sessions (FDS) regularly attended by beneficiaries of Pantawid Pamilya. Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program is a human development program that invests in the health and education of ...
Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries continue to enjoy health care benefits
More beneficiaries of Pantawid Pamilya are now reaping the benefits of the partnership between the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth). In 2012, the DSWD and PhilHealth partnered to provide health care for the poor. To date, more than 4.4 million Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries are covered by PhilHealth as Sponsored Members. DSWD Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman said that this partnership has strengthened the government’s commitment to bridge poor families to medical and health ...
