The DSWD has conducted continuous trainings for its staff. For this year, two batches were already conducted for Social Welfare Assistants numbering to around 100. (Photo shows one of the trainings conducted for the staff)

In Western Visayas, 4.8 % or 12,127 of the 252,584 Poor Households are Indigenous People.

The Department of Social Welfare and Development recently inaugurated a P4.8 million Bottom Up Budgeting (BUB) projects in Roxas City. Bottom Up Budgeting (BUB) projects in Roxas City. DSWD Assistant Secretary Hope Hervilla and Regional Director Rebecca Geamala attended Tuesday the inauguration of the P4 million 2- storey Crisis Center and P800, 000 Persons with continue reading : DSWD-BUB inaugurates P4.8-M projects in Roxas

FINANCIAL resources do not measure how a person becomes responsible and determined to survive in this world. In fact, there are a lot of people who lack financially but are willed to change their fate regardless of age even the most vulnerable sector in the society which are the elderly. Before, only those who had continue reading : Lola Aida gets her pension

Living a thrifty life calls for a lifestyle change. A beneficiary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) shares her tips on how thriftiness change their lives. “Save first before spending,” said Vilma Merisco, a beneficiary of Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP). Vilma is a resident of Dao in Capiz, Province. Married to Celso, continue reading : DSWD beneficiary shares tips on thriftiness

As she is sworn in by new President Rodrigo Duterte as the incoming Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), erstwhile University of the Philippines professor Judy M. Taguiwalo said that her administration in the government’s sixth biggest agency in terms of its cut in the budgetary pie will focus on Tunay continue reading : New DSWD Sec aims to lead Department in providing compassionate, swift services for poor; allows no room for corruption

In Kalahi-CIDSS, men and women are given equal opportunity to work in the construction of 1-unit classroom building at Cato-ogan Elementary School, Tobias Fornier, Antique

51.3% or 577,285 of the 1,126,302 poor individuals in Western Visayas are Children aged below 18 years old. ‪#‎DswdWesternVisayas‬ ‪#‎Listahanan‬

In Western Visayas, 13.7% or 85,986 of the 628,117 poor individuals aged 15 years old and above are Farmers, Forestry and Fisher Folks. #DSWDWesternVisayas #Listahanan