
KORONADAL CITY, May 16 — The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is set to release rice subsidy in the form of cash amounting to P600.00 per month to the beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) starting this March. Around 4.4 million households are expected to receive the additional grant. “Following the […]

COTABATO, Nov. 10 — The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), through its Field Office XII, continues to provide resource augmentation to the local government of Kalamansig, Sultan Kudarat to meet the needs of families affected by flooding due to heavy rains in the town that started on November 6. The DSWD has already […]

COTABATO CITY, Nov. 3 — Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Judy Taguiwalo (above photo, right) joins President Rodrigo R. Duterte (above photo, 2nd from right) at the launching of the Comprehensive Reform and Development Agenda (CRDA) in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. The CRDA is an inter-agency effort to improve ARMM […]

TANTANGAN, South Cotabato, April 9 – A grade 8 honor student from this town has one request for President Benigno Aquino – to institutionalize the conditional cash transfer program before the end his term. Armelyn Lozada of Tantangan National High School, said that passing a law for CCT will help students like her to push their […]

PIKIT, North Cotabato, March 31 – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) conducted Thursday a simultaneous forum about Conditional Cash Transfer Bill here and in General Santos City. Juliet Clavel, regional program coordinator, said the forum, participated by parent leaders, aimed to provide updates to people covered in the program regarding the proposed […]

TALAYAN, Maguindanao, March 26 2016– Local officials in the fertile, but impoverished town of Talayan in the southern Philippines have unveiled a multi-million peso plan to build an airstrip for easy transport of agricultural products and shifted to Davao Port before shipping abroad. Datu Ali Midtimbang, a former Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) turned businessman, […]

MANILA, PHILIPPINES, February 12 — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $400 million loan to help the Government of the Philippines further expand its flagship conditional cash transfer (CCT) program, which provides regular health and education grants to millions of the country’s poorest households. “The support, which builds on ADB’s initial loan to […]

KORONADAL CITY —“We will hire you as one of our municipal agricultural technicians soon.” Such was a surprising but confusing message from the call of the town’s mayor a month ago to Mr. Johnny Tolentino, a native of Tboli, South Cotabato, after being known as a big-earner in a vegetable gardening enterprise in the locality. […]

Zamboanga City, in Western Mindanao, is buzzing with life again, two years after armed fighting disrupted many lives. Around 120,000 people were displaced by clashes in Zamboanga in September 2013. Thousands of structures, including many houses, were damaged or destroyed, making life extremely difficult for the affected communities. Though most displaced people have since moved […]
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Maguindanao, 29 July 2015 – Agriculture-dependent families in Maguindanao are still reeling from the residual impact of conflict, drought and flooding that affected the province in succession during the first half of 2015. In order to meet the first cropping season of the year, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has […]

MALUNGON, Sarangani — Meriam Pulvera claimed she will be thankful forever. The 29-year old mother from the village of Malungon Gamay, a Bla’an native, confessed her decision to attend community and family development sessions have opened her, learning of their full rights on issues concerning ancestral domain. “I am thankful because my family was included […]

KORONADAL CITY, June 19 – Thousands of residents covered by the government’s anti-poverty program gathered Friday here for Pantawid Pamilya Day and Convergence Caravan. Nearly 3,000 people attended the daylong event held at Rizal Park, according to program coordinator Juliet Clavel. “The theme of the event highlights the Department’s belief that given proper support and […]