I’m a 4Ps scholar
They call us the lower class, the twerps, a burden to the government. They dub us dependents, supposedly merely after government doles. They call us the poorest of the poor, the beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps). Let me tell you people, we are less fortunate but we are not stupid. Yes, we are receiving a certain amount from the government, to alleviate our current situation, which is the program’s primary objective. But, is it really a basis ...
DSWD, WFP provide cash assista0nce to 6,700 families affected by Typhoon Ruby
MANILA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is extending P17 million cash assistance to 6,700 families or roughly 33,000 people affected by Typhoon Ruby (local name: Ruby), in close partnership with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). Through DSWD’s social safety net program called the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), WFP has provided a one-time add-on amount of P2,600 each to the most affected households in the municipalities of Can-Avid, Dolores, Jipapad, and Taft in Eastern ...
Sailing to their dreams
It has been more than a year since Typhoon Yolanda struck the beautiful island of Coron, Palawan. The survivors worked their way to move forward from the memories of ruthlessness and despair the typhoon brought to start their lives anew. After several months, the municipality’s tourism industry was active again. The tourists flocked the island once more and the business establishments were back in raking profits. But while the locals started to earn a living, the students felt out as ...
Crossing the sea, reaching a dream
Memories are photo albums that people flip through to reminisce. Every page reflects cherished moments that shape a person’s life. To ‘Yolanda’ survivors, memories of ruthlessness and despair the super typhoon brought are vividly etched in pages they want to skip and forget. They just want to move forward and start anew. This is what the people of Coron, Palawan did – put the destruction of ‘Yolanda’ behind them. It has been over a year since ‘Yolanda’ struck the beautiful ...
DSWD accounts for missing Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries cited in COA report
In a press briefing on Friday, beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) came to attest that they are listed as poor in the National Household Targetting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) database, giving clarification to the Commission on Audit report that says a number of current household beneficiaries of the program are not in the database. Blenda Rendon, a Pantawid Pamilya beneficiary from Payatas, Quezon City, was part of the ...
