KORONADAL, Philippines, March 22 — The Department of Social Welfare and Development reported Wednesday more than 32,000 households in Central Mindanao region can now stand on their own without the government’s assistance under the government’s cash transfer scheme. Naifa Balindong, regional program coordinator for operation of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, said based on their latest […]
MANILA, Philippines, March 20 — Department of Social Welfare and Development Secretary Judy Taguiwalo and Australian Ambassador Amanda Gorely launched an enhanced humanitarian capacity of DSWD through the new Australian-funded warehouse at the DSWD National Relief Operations Center in Pasay City. The new Warehouse H has a floor area of 720 square meters, and a […]
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 […]
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 […]
