Hardworking, participative, and with leadership qualities – these are but few qualities that best describe the grand prize winner of Huwarang Pantawid Pamilya 2013. Helen D. Mabanta, together with her husband and siblings, are just ordinary dweller of Purok 5, Barangay Libertad, Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte, but with extraordinary achievements in family life, community development, continue reading : Mabanta Family is Huwarang Pantawid Pamilya 2013 Grand Prize Winner

Gingoog City – Bradge H. Jumo, representative from the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council recently served as a resource person to discuss on Disaster preparedness to the youth residents of the Regional Rehabilitation Center for Youth (RRCY) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development based in Northern Mindanao. According to Jumo, the continue reading : CDRRMC TRAINS DSWD YOUTH CLIENTS ON DISASTER PREPAREDNESS

  You can never go wrong when you are in the countryside. Bukidnon for example, offers a picturesque view of the mountains and a weather far better than any crowded metropolis’s discomforting humidity. Walking past unending greenery that is only dotted by interspersed rows of houses, one would only imagine what’s behind the innocuous plains, continue reading : Higaonons: Proud and Getting By

One of the necessary issues guaranteed in the implementation of any of the Kalahi-CIDSS sub-projects is the supervision and quality control practices that definitely have a very big impact in the completion of a certain sub-project.  The Regional Project Management Office (RPMO) ensures that those working for the sub-projects have the necessary knowledge and skill continue reading : PROJECT QUALITY ENSURED THROUGH ASSURING AND ABLE HANDS

I. Drainage Canal dugay nang gihandum, nahuman karong adlawa Pagidusar, pagdawat ang seremonyas Ikaw, ako, kitang tanan nabulahan Bag-ong terminal, bag-ong merkado dili na mabahaan. (Drainage Canal, long been dreamt of; just been completed today Turned-over, accepted during the ceremony Surely, you and I, and everybody else will all be fortunate of New terminal and continue reading : KAUSABAN (CHANGE) A Poem by Tomasa Baptista Galbinez (Kalhi-CIDSS Volunteer)

Lanao del Norte – 33-year-old Ms. Jobaira P. Daluma knows how frustrating it could be when you play the role of a mother to five children and with a job that can hardly suffice the daily needs of the family. Her children aged 14,10, 9, 8, and 4 and with a husband who also could continue reading : BECAUSE FAITH AND HARDWORK PAY OFF

For Filipinos, it is always heartwarming to know that the government, through its anti-poverty alleviation programs, is sowing needs of hope among poor people to continue working, not giving up, in order to have a better tomorrow. PantawidPamilya is a human development and rights-based program that aims to alleviate poverty through investment in health, education continue reading : A BETTER LIFE FOR A PANTAWID PAMILYA BENEFICIARY

The Department of Social Welfare and Development has made it to a point that regardless of the issues being thrown at the institution, it is being dealt by showing how successful programs are being implemented, and how transparent transactions are dealt with. In fact, in Region X, the management has clearly maximized all programs to continue reading : DSWD CONVERGENCE: A TRUE TESTAMENT OF GENUINE GOVERNMENT SERVITUDE