Tribal Leaders from Northern Mindanao gather for the Indigenous Peoples Summit, March 16, Pearlmont Hotel, Cagayan de Oro City. The summit opens with the “Panubad-tubad”, a ritual of the Lumads in Mindanao where they kill a chicken and spill its blood on the ground to invoke the presence of ‘Magbabaya’ (Supreme Creator). Present during the continue reading : DSWD holds IP Summit

Secretary Corazon “Dinky” Juliano-Soliman speaks to 1,656 participants to the People’s Dialogue in Cagayan de Oro City last March 18, 2016. This is form part of the series of dialogues in the region, involving cabinet secretaries and various sectors / beneficiaries of government programs. The leg of dialogues began from March 17 to 19, 2016, continue reading : People’s Dialogue

(from left) Mitze Antian, Grade 3; Nistle Genlisa Mae Baculao, Grade 4; and Roseann Antian, Grade 4, are pupils of Dao Elementary School in Barangay Dao, San Fernando, Bukidnon. The three want to become a doctor, a police officer, and a teacher respectively. The grueling 5-hour mountain trek to their school makes it difficult for continue reading : FEATURE: Lumad children of Kiranggol dreams anew

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) – Kapit Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services – National Community Driven Development (Kalahi CIDSS-NCDDP) meets the Lumad children of Sitio Kiranggol, Barangay Dao, San Fernando, Bukidnon during the site validation for the construction of a three-classroom school building in the sitio. Kiranggol continue reading : DSWD’s Kalahi-CIDSS bring hope to Kiranggol pupils

SAN FERNANDO, Bukidnon – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) through the Kapit Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services – National Community Driven Development (Kalahi CIDSS-NCDDP), in partnership with the Department of Education and National Commission on Indigenous Peoples, conducted a joint Site Validation and Risk Assessment for continue reading : DSWD, DepEd, NCIP validates project site in Kiranggol

Matigsalug Datu Mara Bagubay of Sitio Kiranggol, Barangay Dao, San Fernando, Bukidnon leads the *Pamuhat. The Pamuhat was done on site of the three-classroom school building to be constructed through the Department of Social Welfare and Development Kapit Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services – National Community Driven Development (Kalahi continue reading : PHOTOS: Pamuhat at Sitio Kiranggol

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Region 10 Director Nestor B. Ramos synthesized the possible risks and scenarios to the efforts of the Community-Driven-Development (CDD), through the Kapit Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services – National Community Driven Development (Kalahi CIDSS-NCDDP), brought about by the upcoming results of the continue reading : PHOTO: RD Ramos shares the CDD approach to Municipal Coordinating Teams

Iligan City — The state-run Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT) has recognized the increasing numbers of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (Pantawid Pamilya) grantees who became academic achievers in the first semester of 2015-2016 here. A total of 81 grantees made it to the dean’s list this academic year. Ellenjoy P. Guerra, a second continue reading : State university honors Pantawid grantees