“Not too old to work for a living. Together they weaved mats as their pass time but later will be an extra income.” We are all inspired to witness the two of our indigent senior citizen beneficiaries in the name of Lola Gonzaga C. Francisco and Lola Adelaida Delos Santos during our 3rd quarter payout continue reading : Weaved in the bond of Friendship – SocPen beneficiaries of Sibolo, Caluya, Antique

THE DSWD6 provided relief goods to victims of fire in Molo district. “We have immediately provided relief goods to augment to the fire victims in Barangay North San Jose, Molo,Iloilo City,” said Rose Sanagustin, Head of the Protective Services Unit (PSU), DSWD 6. According to Sanagustin the agency has provided the fire victims 100 food continue reading : DSWD6 provides relief goods to fire victims

Because sustainability is important for survival, the Department of Social Welfare and Development is bent on implementing livelihood projects in localities. SLP
 is
 a
 community‐based
 program which
 provides
 capacity
 building, to
 improve the
 program
 participants’
 socio‐economic
 status. This
program supports
 microenterprises
 to become organizationally and 
economically 
viable. 
And links 
participants 
to
 employment
 opportunities. Group of people continue reading : DSWD vows sustainable livelihood

ILOILO province has the highest number of poor households. This is based on the result of the Listahanan or National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) which was recently launched by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office VI. Findings showed that there are 128,498 poor households or 31.7 percent of continue reading : Iloilo has highest number of poor households

MAJORITY of the poor in Western Visayas have access to safe drinking water. Based on the database of Listahanan or the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR), 55 percent or 139,807 households of the total 252,584 identified poor households have access to safe water sources. The remaining 45 percent, or 112,777, draw water continue reading : 55% of poor gets safe drinking water in WV

“There will be rice for 4Ps (Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program) beneficiaries. It will be 20 kilograms per month per household. President Duterte says “ayaw kong may nagugutom.” This is going to take effect next year. It is included in the budget proposal. We wanted to start it this year but we don’t have the budget. continue reading : Rice for Pantawid beneficiaries

Secretary Judy M. Taguiwalo of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) says that the agency is bent into serving with “tunay na malasakit sa mahirap” during the recently conducted Visayas Cluster Dialogue in Iloilo City. #DSWDMayMalasakit

We have to give a human face to the statistics (Usec. Florita Villar,DSWD) DSWD #DSWDMayMalasakit

We’ll use Listahanan in Regional Development Plan (Yvette Batacandolo, NEDA6) DSWD #DSWDMayMalasakit

The Department of Social Welfare and Development Region VI recently launched its database of poor households. Dubbed Listahanan, also known as National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction or NHTS-PR, the database is a comprehensive record of households that gives a name and a face to the poor. The launching of the database, with the continue reading : DSWD 6 launches Listahanan database