The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) clarified that the P4.2 billion which Senator Chiz Escudero was quoted to have said as the 2015 proposed budget for the monitoring continue reading : Proposed 2015 monitoring and evaluation budget of CCT, only P429-M not P4.2-B
Defying stereotypes: How Tanutan family inspires a community despite the absence of a father
To love and to forgive. These are two things that people of Brgy. Velasco, Lemery, Iloilo learned from Tanutan family, this year’s winner of the National Search for the Huwarang continue reading : Defying stereotypes: How Tanutan family inspires a community despite the absence of a father
UNICEF’s unconditional cash grants to benefit Pantawid Pamilya families in E. Visayas
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), through the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), will extend financial assistance to beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) in Eastern continue reading : UNICEF’s unconditional cash grants to benefit Pantawid Pamilya families in E. Visayas
From challenges to changes
To embrace it with optimism is what the 33-year-old Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program beneficiary Atiya Enting Jumdail always does whenever she faces a new challenge on her life. She says continue reading : From challenges to changes
CCT program still a work in progress
GENERAL SANTOS CITY: The government’s Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program is still a work in progress and its implementor, the Department of Social Welfare and Development, does not pretend to continue reading : CCT program still a work in progress
Rising from ‘poorest of the poor’ in T’Boli
Farmer Johnny Tolentino recalls how he was barely surviving hand-to-mouth when he first received five years ago the P4,000 cash assistance from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) continue reading : Rising from ‘poorest of the poor’ in T’Boli
Toward ‘better’ families
Subic- Leonie Nervida, 47, lives in a tiny, two-room apartment that lies at the end of a row of similarly small apartments in Barangay New Banicain in this city. She continue reading : Toward ‘better’ families
Sec. Soliman leads advisory committee visit to IP communities
Coron, Palawan – Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) led the Joint National and Regional Advisory Committee (N/RAC) meeting in this municipality last April continue reading : Sec. Soliman leads advisory committee visit to IP communities
3 universities vie for DSWD Docu-Film Competition
Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP), De La Salle College of St. Benilde and the Lyceum University of the Philippines competed for the First Convergence Documentary Film-Making Contest of the continue reading : 3 universities vie for DSWD Docu-Film Competition
Struggling out of the poverty trap
MANILA, Philippines – The country’s fight against poverty still has a long way to go, but the success stories of some of the conditional cash transfer grantees seem to indicate continue reading : Struggling out of the poverty trap