Although Camarines Sur 3rd District Rep. Gabriel Bordado Jr. has expressed support for the P5.268-trillion 2023 national budget, he underscored the need to ensure this will benefit the underprivileged and marginalized as he asked for an increased budget for several government programs. Camarines...
ILOILO CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) hailed an indigenous peoples (IPs) clan from Calinog, Iloilo as the most exemplary family in Western Visayas. THE Caballero family of Calinog, Iloilo. (DSWD 6) The Caballero family led by patriarch Romulo was awarded as the...
The Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of the Republic Act No. 11861 or the Expanded Solo Parents Welfare Act were formally signed on Thursday, Sept. 29. This photo taken on February 24, 2022 shows a woman pushing a child in a pushchair along a street on the Bund in Shanghai. A 2019 report by...
BACOLOD CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-Western Visayas released P37,285,000 in educational assistance here and Negros Occidental to 13,292 distressed students. A DSWD personnel assists a student availing of educational assistance in Cadiz City, Negros...
(DSWD) The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has so far provided over P22.7 million worth of food and non-food items as resource augmentation to local government units (LGUs) that have been affected by typhoon Karding (international name: Noru). In a statement on Wednesday, Sept....
A measure that seeks to criminalize consensual incestuous sexual relations between adults who have knowledge of their close relationships by blood or marriage has been filed in the House of Representatives. (Unsplash) House Bill (HB) 4704 or the proposed “Anti-Incest Act” imposes on guilty...
(DSWD) The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), local government units, non-government organizations, and other DSWD partners are continuously providing humanitarian aid to families that were affected by the onslaught of typhoon Karding (international name: No-ru). Based on the...
BAGUIO CITY – Typhoon “Karding” affected 238 families or 763 persons from 25 barangays in the Cordillera region. The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-Cordillera said as of 6 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 26, 43 families – 20 in Benguet and 23 in Mountain Province – or 99...
An estimated 1,175 typhoon Karding devastated families from Jomalig and Patnangunan, Quezon, and Dingalan, Aurora received P5,000 and P10,000 cash assistance from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Monday, Sept. 26. Department of Social Welfare and Development (Facebook)...
ILOILO CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-6 has distributed a total of P129.78 million in educational aid for indigent students in Western Visayas. DSWD personnel process cash aid for indigent students in Sta. Barbara, Iloilo. (DSWD-6) A total of 46,055 students...
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has ordered the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to identify the average duration of stay of evacuees in evacuation centers during times of calamities. Marcos Jr. on Monday asked DSWD Secretary Erwin Tulfo to do so after the latter requested the...
SAN FERNADO CITY, La Union – Thousands of family food packs and non-food items are readily available for evacuees in 13 regional and satellite warehouses of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Region 1 (Ilocos). The DSWD-Field Office 1 said there are 29,229 family food...
