DSWD Asec for Operations and Programs Group Camilo Gudmalin, DSWD-6 Director Ma. Evelyn B. Macapobre and Assistant Regional Director for Operations Rebecca P. Geamala conducted a spot inspection of DSWD workers in Altavas, Aklan Tuesday. Members of the KALAHI CIDSS-NCDDP Area Coordinating Team were all present and helping the LGU in validating the list of continue reading : Spot checking conducted for fast delivery of relief goods
Importance of data management stressed
Assistant Secretary for Operations and Programs Group Camilo Gudmalin stressed the importance of data collected in the field to know the extent of the affected areas in Western Visayas. Gudmalin is in Iloilo to closely monitor the region’s Typhoon Ruby preparation and know the magnitude of displacements. The needs of the victims, relief assistance continue reading : Importance of data management stressed
Evacuees return home
Thousands of evacuees returned to their homes after the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) declared Typhoon Ruby has weakened and public storm warning signal 1 had been lifted in Western Visayas. Of the 65, 541 evacuees in Western Visayas, only less than one percent remained in the one evacuation center in the continue reading : Evacuees return home
Status of relief operations
DSWD Assistant Secretary for Operations and Programs Group Camilo G. Gudmalin (second from right), DSWD-6 Director Ma. Evelyn Macapobre (hidden) and OIC-Assistant Regional Director for Operations Rebecca P. Geamala (second from left) together with Capiz SWAD Team leader Josephine Degala and Pantawid Pamilya Capiz Provincial Operations Officer Joselito Estember met with Capiz Gov. Victor Tanco continue reading : Status of relief operations
DSWD 6 establishes four repacking centers in Iloilo
As the number of evacuees due to Typhoon Ruby increases, the Department of Social Welfare and Development 6 (DSWD6) established four repacking sites in Iloilo to fast track the delivery of family food packs at the evacuation centers in the region as other provinces in Western Visayas are still under Public Storm Signal Nos. 1 continue reading : DSWD 6 establishes four repacking centers in Iloilo
DSWD to feed families in evacuation centers
The Department of Social Welfare and Development will be providing family food packs to families who are in evacuation centers in the different provinces of the region as per instruction from DSWD Secretary Corazon J. Soliman. This following the preemptive evacuation implemented by the government of families living in areas susceptible to storm surge/flooding and continue reading : DSWD to feed families in evacuation centers
DSWD-6 earmarks P19.4 million standby funds for Typhoon Ruby
The Department of Social Welfare and Development received P10 million additional fund in aid of areas in Western Visayas that will be affected by “Typhoon Ruby’ (international name Hagupit). The P10M is part of the national government’s immediate response to regions that will be hit by the typhoon. The funds is apart from P9.4 million continue reading : DSWD-6 earmarks P19.4 million standby funds for Typhoon Ruby
Antique’s bets win nat’l SLP awards
ILOILO CITY– Two women from the province of Antique proved that they too can excel nationally. The stories of Gloria Juayang, of Barangay Aningalan, and Rosemarie dela Rama, of Barangay Tubudan, both in San Remigio, Antique impressed the judges that made them as top winners for the Individual Enterprise category of the Sustainable Livelihood Program’s continue reading : Antique’s bets win nat’l SLP awards
DSWD-6 releases P59.2M livelihood assistance to typhoon-affected families
The Department of Social Welfare and Development 6 (DSWD-6) released a total of P 59.2 million livelihood assistance to typhoon-hit families in the region especially to the beneficiaries of Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program almost one year after Typhoon Yolanda struck Western Visayas on November 8 last year. This livelihood assistance is through the Sustainable Livelihood continue reading : DSWD-6 releases P59.2M livelihood assistance to typhoon-affected families
Helping liberate the IPs from poverty thru education
“It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time—for we are bound by that—but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.”- T.S. Eliot THEIRS is a story of struggle, of ending the inter-generational poverty within their family and for every dignity that continue reading : Helping liberate the IPs from poverty thru education