With this year’s theme, “PYAP: Bandila sa Kabatan-onan para sa Kabag-ohan,” the Pag-asa Youth Association of the Philippines Regional Chapter,celebrated its 40th year Anniversary celebration last August 8-9, 2014 in Gingoog City. This is an annual celebration wherein youth representatives from major cities, provinces, and municipalities in the region convene and coordinate in sharing the continue reading : PAG-ASA YOUTH Celebrates 40 Years
Village officials help DSWD in monitoring compliance of beneficiaries
Bukidnon — A hinterland village in Impasug-ong, this province, has started to help the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office 10 in monitoring the compliance of beneficiaries to the agency’s programs and services. Hagpa village chief Alberto H. Suday Sr. said the move will assist workers of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program and continue reading : Village officials help DSWD in monitoring compliance of beneficiaries
DSWD capacitates legal aid lawyers on protective services
Cagayan de Oro City – DSWD capacitates legal aid lawyers for enhanced protective services – an initiative by DSWD to strengthen legal service to vulnerable and marginalized individuals whose rights have been violated. The capacity-building was done last June 29-31, 2014 here.
DSWD improves disaster reporting system
Cagayan de Oro City — A reporting system has been created by the Department of Social Welfare and Development to improve its data collection and dissemination during disasters. Being the lead in disaster response, particularly on relief, early recovery, and rehabilitation, the DSWD’s staff from Visayas and Mindanao underwent a re-orientation on the disaster reporting continue reading : DSWD improves disaster reporting system
“It teaches us to work hard, not indolence”
Elsa Sabellana, a Pantawid Pamilya beneficiary, denies criticisms that Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program encourages beneficiaries like her to be lazy and rely on government support. “That is not true,” she says. “It is actually the other way around. Pantawid Pamilya has taught me to become a better mother, a wife, and an individual.” Elsa, who continue reading : “It teaches us to work hard, not indolence”
Weak Signal
A Pantawid Pamilya worker of DSWD Northern Mindanao tries to put his mobile phone inside a plastic and hung it outside a house of a beneficiary in a hinterland village of Impasug-ong, Bukidnon during a visit, to receive signal from a mobile network, despite the fact that more and more cell phone towers are built continue reading : Weak Signal
Persons with Disabilities Celebrates National Disability Prevention & Rehabilitation Week
With this year’s theme, “Talino at Paninindigan ng taong May Kapansanan: Pasaporte sa Kaunlaran,“ Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in Northern Mindanao celebrated the National Disability Prevention & Rehabilitation (NDPR) Week with a motorcade and an opening program in one of the malls in the city. The week-long celebration is celebrated annually nationwide. It is aimed continue reading : Persons with Disabilities Celebrates National Disability Prevention & Rehabilitation Week