As part of its goal to bring the government closer to the people, the Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP) launched a mini caravan in Bago City, Negros Occidental on Friday, Aug. 12. (Image courtesy of PCUP / Facebook) The initiative serves as an all-inclusive caravan of services,...
The Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP) – Field Operations Division for Visayas met with a Cebu-based developer to finalize the turnover and blessing ceremony of a 100-unit-medium rise building at Brgy. Lorega-San Miguel, Cebu City. (PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION FOR THE URBAN POOR)...
Father Robert Reyes, the Urban Poor Associates (UPA) and urban poor groups, held a prayer rally in front of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) office in Intramuros, Manila on Wednesday, March 30. Photo courtesy Urban Poor Associates FB During their activity, the group prayed for Comelec to...
Highlighting the need to urgently address poverty and hunger in the Philippines, the Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP), on Saturday, March 26, appealed for an exemption from the election spending ban. Under the Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) Resolution No. 10747, a certificate...
A total of 300 urban poor indigenous people (IPs) residing in Barangay San Manuel, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan have benefited from the Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor’s (PCUP) Disaster Resilience Caravan, the Commission announced on Friday, March 18. The Disaster Resilience Caravan...
A total of 300 families residing in Barangay Tagburos, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan have benefited from the Disaster Resilience Caravan of the Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP) on Tuesday, March 15. The Disaster Resilience Caravan, according to PCUP, was held as part of the...
The Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP), as part of its goal to equip and help the urban poor, will implement a Disaster Resilience Caravan in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, it said on Monday, March 14. A pre-caravan meeting was also held by the Commission together with the local...
The “Surf2Sawa– Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP) Wi-Fi project” or the “free Wi-Fi for all” has been launched in Quezon City, the Commission announced. In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Feb 22, PCUP disclosed that the project was launched on Monday, Feb. 21 at Upper Lilac...
One of the things that presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo will focus on if she wins the presidency in May 2022 is an “honest-to-goodness” empowerment of Filipinos belonging to the urban poor sector so they could participate in addressing the various issues they face, most...
Some 2,000 urban poor on Wednesday, Dec. 15, held a pink procession for the traditional annual Panunuluyan, which is a commemoration of the Nativity story, to show their support for the presidential bid of Vice President Leni Robredo. Vice President Leni Robredo’s supporters hold a pink...
The Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP) is inviting the public to join the celebration of the Urban Poor Solidarity Week (UPSW) on Dec. 7. (File Photo / PCUP Facebook Page) The UPSW celebration aims to strengthen the correlation between urban poor communities towards government and...
A coalition of some 500 urban poor community organizations united on Monday, August 2, to launch LENI Urban Poor in a bid to call on Vice President Leni Robredo to run for president in the 2022 polls. LENI UP, a coalition of urban poor organizations, backs Vice President Leni Robredo should she...
