BUTUAN CITY – Two-thousand, one-hundred fifty college students in Siargao Island recently received educational aid under the Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation (AICS) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). MATUGAS (center). (Photo courtesy of Rep. Bingo Matugas...
SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union – The Department of Agriculture said 329,462 rice farmers in Region 1 (Ilocos) will receive financial aid through the Rice Farmers Financial Assistance (RFFA) Program. The DA-Regional Field Office 1 said beneficiaries are enrolled in the Registry System for Basic...
LEGAZPI CITY, Albay – Ten families displaced by a fire here on Friday, March 1, received cash assistance from the Ako Bicol party-list on Saturday, March 2. FIRE victims in Legazpi City received aid from Ako Bicol party-list through executive director lawyer Alfredo Garbin Jr. (seated...
BACOLOD CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-Western Visayas has turned over financial assistance amounting to P971,364 to more than 1,000 individuals displaced by the series of armed conflict in two localities in northern Negros Occidental last week. MORE than 1,000...
ILOILO CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development-6 has started signing medical and burial assistance agreements with hospitals, funeral companies, and other medical service providers in Western Visayas. SOME of the partner institutions of the DSWD-6 in the implementation of its...
Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte (PPAB) Legal assistance covering the start of the investigation, detention, arrest or indictment, all the way to the trial proper, and at all levels of appeals that will follow. Such is the extent of the...
BACOLOD CITY – Thirty-eight former members of the New People’s Army (NPA) from Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental received P270,000 financial and educational assistance on Valentine’s Day. MAYOR Raymund Tongson Jr. (center) leads the distribution of financial and educational aid to 38 former...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (left), Makati City 2nd district Rep. Luis Campos Jr. (Facebook) A vice chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations has credited Speaker Martin Romualdez for the significant increase in the earmarked Cancer...
DAVAO CITY – Almost 5,000 families here affected by flooding caused by the trough of a low-pressure area received relief assistance from Davao City Rep. Paolo "Pulong" Duterte on Thursday, February 8. DAVAO City Rep. Paolo Duterte's office distributes aid to flood victims in Davao City....
SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union -- Stall owners affected by the fire that razed the public wet market in this city on January 11 have received P10-million cash aid from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). P7.5 million came from the DSWD Field Unit 1 while P2.5...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Police Regional Office-8 has turned over cash assistance to the families of the three police officers slain in an encounter with a criminal gang in Santa Margarita, Samar on Tuesday, January 30. POLICE Regional Office-8 chief Police Brig. Gen. Reynaldo Pawid turns over...
ILOILO CITY – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)-6 is implementing a P10.4-million livelihood project for drivers and operators displaced by the phase out of traditional jeepneys in Western Visayas. THE United Negros Transport Cooperative (UNTC) receives a check for P1 million to...
