The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office VI today convened the agencies in the disaster response cluster in preparation for the Boracay closure. “Our utmost concern is the condition of families who will be displaced,” said Delia Villa-Bagolcol, Assistant regional director for Operations who presided the meeting. In attendance were DSWD technical continue reading : DSWD6 convenes Response cluster for Boracay closure

Being a fisherman’s son has inspired 37-year- old Ricky Parcon of Brgy. Balaring, Ivisan, Capiz to strive hard to combat poverty since fishing is the only source of family income. Ricky grew up in a household wherein making ends meet was a daily struggle. Their father’s measly income was only enough for their daily sustenance, continue reading : Ricky Parcon: A HERO Champ Municipal Link

Scarcity of water supplies along the shoreline of Brgy. Calumpang in Molo district of Iloilo City has been a long time problem of illegal settlers who are mostly beneficiaries of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program. Barangay Calumpang is part of the 25 villages in Molo district out of 180 villages in Iloilo City. It is a continue reading : 4Ps benes maintain ‘Gulayan sa Barangay’ along coastal road

THE Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office VI conducted its first ever performance contracting workshop. “It is a milestone for us. In the past, this has been done in smaller groups. However, this workshop stirs every employee to move towards the same direction and pace in a faster way to achieve our continue reading : DSWD6 holds performance contracting workshop

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office VI is in need of eight hundred eighty-three (883) Validators/field staff positions under Contract of Service (COS)/ Memorandum of Agreement (MOA)/ Job Order engagement for the implementation of Unconditional Cash Transfer (UCT) program for a duration of forty-five (45) days. Qualifications: • Complete atleast two continue reading : We need more than 800 workers

THE Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) warned today that a number of elderly will be delisted from the Social Pension Program. “We will be delisting non-eligible elderly in the program. While we know this might offend some but we have to follow the guidelines,” said Rebecca P. Geamala, regional director. Geamala said that continue reading : DSWD6: Non-eligible elderly to be delisted in Social Pension program

  It is of great certainty that in one point of our life we familiarized ourselves with the butterfly cycle. It is, in one way or another, a part of our educational tradition. Most of us even compared the transitions in our life same as of the butterfly. It has been a cliché in our continue reading : Community volunteer compares self development to a butterfly

  For several decades, farmers and traders of watermelons and root crops in Sitio Iraya brought their produce to the market by passing a bamboo foot bridge that connects to the barangay proper of Cadinglian in Oton. But, that is history now. There, haulers were waiting for the farmers to unload their products such as continue reading : Hanging foot bridge connects community to progress

THE head of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office VI called Non-Government Organizations anew to help stop child abuse and exploitation.   “Let us work together to put an end to child sexual abuse and exploitation. We, at the government, cannot do it alone,” said Rebecca P. Geamala, regional director of continue reading : DSWD6 to NGOs: help stop child abuse

  He was born unwanted. Fast forward after four decades, the child rose above his past and got himself and his country a hero’s award. John Piermont Montilla, known as simply Pierre to his friends and peers in other countries, now 41 years of age, remembers how he struggled as a child. At age 12, continue reading : From an unwanted child to a hero