The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program beneficiaries of Cagayan de Oro
City, like this is in Baikingon and FS Catanico, join the Vote Counting Machine
(VCM) Roadshow of the Commission on Elections of Cagayan de Oro City to have a
glimpse of how it is going to be like on election day.
The roadshow allowed participants to practice shading and feeding their ballots to the VCM, aside from informing the voters on the prohibited acts during and after elections. DSWD through the Pantawid Pamilya has partnered with the City COMELEC to empower the beneficiaries by letting them exercise their rights to suffrage.
The partnership is in line with the Bawal ang
Epal Dito campaign of the DSWD to ensure that the implementation of 4Ps during
elections and campaign period is free of political influence and manipulation
while safeguarding the rights of Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries for free and
honest elections.
Four (4) new units of ambulance are ready to be used by the four (4) centers and residential facilities of the DSWD-10. The vehicles are going to be used to transport clients with medical needs.
Cagayan de
Oro City – Four (4) units of ambulance were delivered to the Department of
Social Welfare and Development Field Office 10 last March 29, 2019 for the
agency’s centers and residential care facilities.
The four
(4) 70 Toyota Ambulance units were purchased by the DSWD Central Office in
Quezon City amounting to Php164,990,000.00 for the use of the Regional Haven
for Women, Regional Reception and Study Center for Children, Home for Girls
which are located in Cagayan de Oro City and Regional Rehabilitation Center for
Youth, which is located in Gingoog City.
These
centers and residential care facilities are temporary homes of individuals who
are under difficult circumstances and are under the custody of the DSWD. In the
facilities, they are provided with various interventions such as counselling,
therapeutic sessions, livelihood and, medical assistance and services.
To date,
there are now 15 women residents with 19 dependents in the Regional Haven for
Women, 37 residents in the Regional Reception and Study Center for Children, 23
residents in Home for Girls and, 65 residents in Regional Rehabilitation Center
for Youth.
Mari-Flor A. Dollaga-Libang, Regional Director of the DSWD-10, says the four (4) units will be of great help to all the residents who need immediate medical attention from time to time in hospitals and clinics. ###cpt
Cagayan de Oro City – An inter-agency council of Northern Mindanao here is set to continue
strengthening its campaign against human trafficking, child pornography, and
other forms of gender-based violence.
The Regional Inter-Agency
Committee on Anti-Human Trafficking-Child Pornography-Violence Against Women
and their Children (RIACAT-CP-VAWC) 10, chaired by the Department of Social
Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office 10 and co-chaired by the Department
of Justice 10 and the Department of the Interior and Local Government 10, has
planned out several activities for 2019 that prevent, promote, and protect the
rights of the vulnerable sectors.
Atty. Ruby T. Malanog,
Deputy City Prosecutor of Cagayan de Oro, said RIACAT-CP-VAWC 10 has
recommended to the Department of Education to incorporate the protection and
prevention from being preyed to human traffickers in their curriculum.
Atty. Malanog explained
that there is a need to discuss and teach parents and their children during PTA
(Parent-Teachers Association) meetings and classes of students about the
dangers of human trafficking and child pornography.
Malanog also disclosed
that the campaign will be carried out during barangay assemblies. The DILG 10
will lead the campaign from the national level down to barangays in Northern
Mindanao.
Newly-installed Regional
Director of DSWD Field Office 10, Mari-Flor A. Dollaga-Libang, lauded the
inter-agency efforts to help curb trafficking, child pornography, and other
forms of violence against women and their children.
Director Dollaga-Libang
said DSWD Field Office 10 will continue to strengthen convergence efforts among
national government agencies, local government units, and civil society
organizations to ensure that vulnerable sectors, like the women and their
children, will have access to social protection programs of the agency.
The RIACAT-CP-VAWC 10
also proposed to the Police Regional Office 10 of the Philippine National
Police to set-up a Regional Anti-Cybercrime Office in Iligan City during its
first quarterly meeting at N Hotel here.
This is to help curb
online sexual abuse and exploitation of children in Iligan city and its
neighboring towns, considering that the City of Falls ranked fourth among
cities with high incidents of on-line child pornography nationwide.
Thirty-five
local government units in Northern Mindanao attended the Department of Social
Welfare and Development Field Office 10’s orientation today on social
technology projects which they can opt to replicate to their own social
services for their constituents.
Social Technology is an innovative model of social welfare and
development intervention which utilizes theories and tested method intended to
improve social conditions and human behavior of the disadvantaged, poor and
vulnerable Filipinos.
Dr. Delia Maravillosa, Social Technology Unit Head of the DSWD-10,
says the agency is constantly advocating various social technology projects,
which includes those that respond to the needs of communities in resolving the
issue on drug abuse. Social protection projects that are related to drug abuse
resolutions include the Family Drug Abuse Prevention Program (FDAPP) and the
Strategies Toward Acceptance, Reintegration, and Transformation (START).
Dr. Delia Maravillosa, Social Technology Unit Head of DSWD F.O. 10 discussed theapplicability of Social Technology Projects
FDAPP is a community-based prevention program designed to educate
and prepare families about the adverse effects of drug abuse and it targets
parents, youth, and adult within the family.
On
the other hand, START is also a strategy that is focused on the organization of
recovering drug dependents or users who will later become the advocacy arm at
the community level and shall be equipped through the provision of the existing
basic, social and psychosocial services.
Moreover,
the DSWD has also developed the Comprehensive Intervention Against Gender
Violence (CIAGV) as its response to the rising incidence of violence against
women and children in the provinces. It helps improve the health conditions of
women, adolescents and girls through improved prevention, assistance and
reintegration of victims or survivors of violence. The agency, Dr. Maravillosa
emphasizes, is also advocating this project to the LGUs.
Mari-Flor
Libang, Regional Director of DSWD-10, also says that the agency commends all
the LGUs for making measures and interventions to address the need to help our
families and communities and that their program is apparently parallel to the
social technology projects being advocated by the DSWD.
As
its mandate, the DSWD responds to the emerging needs and trends that affect the
lives of the poor, vulnerable, and disadvantaged individuals, groups or
families under two key result areas: development of the new social welfare and
development technologies; and the enrichment of existing social welfare and
development programs.
On
the other hand, Director Libang also expresses the agency’s commitment in
marketing and promoting completed social technology projects for adoption and
replication at the local level – which are the local government units and
licensed social welfare and development agencies per Administrative Order 06,
series of 2016 otherwise known as the “Enhanced Guidelines on Social Technology
Development.”
Moreover,
the Regional Development Council passed the RDC-X Resolution No. 22 series of
2018, “supporting the replication of the DSWD’s completed social technology
projects,” which was forged during the 115th RDC-X Full Council
Meeting on June 2018. This paved way for the LGUs to adopt and replicate the
Completed Social Technology Projects of the DSWD.