For a family that is poverty stricken, their primary concerns is what to eat and how they will survive for the coming days. Maricel Aguilar’s family is one among them. They are from Barangay Busing, a coastal barangay of San Pascual, Masbate whose main source of livelihood is farming and fishing. Mario earns P100 per continue reading : BRAVING THE TRAIL

DSWD 5 – A four day training of trainers on Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) was held recently at Bituon Beach Resort, Mobo, Masbate. Funded by World Bank, the training program was focused on the discussion of the Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and Behavior Change Communication. This will form part of the Enhanced Family continue reading : PILOT LGUs in Masbate Trained on WASH Program

The poor village of Iyagan in Baao, Camarines Sur worked hard for their first concrete access road. The 1.71 km pathway was completed in 2013 and since then, everyone in the community is reaping the benefits of what they sacrificed for. Necita Mesa, a housewife with three children, was one of the residents who built continue reading : A housewife learns the basics of construction

DSWD targets to train more than 7,000 residents on project proposal making as part of the Project Development Workshop (PDW) conducted through Kalahi-CIDSS (Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services). The said training started last March and will end this April in 88 municipalities and 2,490 communities are the recipients of the continue reading : DSWD trains thousands of Bicolanos on project proposal making

Legazpi City–The key officials of the national government agencies (NGAs) and DSWD’s development partners visited two towns in Bicol for the Third Implementation Support Mission last April 9, 2015 to look into the enhancements of Kalahi-CIDSS program of DSWD. Members of World Bank, Asian Development Bank (ADB) together with the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) and continue reading : DSWD holds 3rd Joint WB-ADB-DFAT Implementation Support Mission in Bicol

Legazpi City—The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office 5 hosted a three-day national project concept formulation on March 11-14, 2015 at Hotel St. Ellis to support one of the agency’s poverty reduction programs, Kapit-bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS). Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo continue reading : DSWD Bicol hosts project concept formulation workshop for improved local governance and DRRM

So near yet so far away. The island barangay of Busing is only two nautical miles or 3.7 kilometers away from the town of San Pascual in Burias island of Masbate province. Out of the 22 barangays of San Pascual, it is described to be one of the impoverished. The sea surrounding Busing is a continue reading : The road most traveled

A community faces different threats to peace and security and a village in Gubat, Sorsogon faces the same ordeal. In Pinontingan, a coastal village home to 1,342 residents, crime is rampant. Most of its 335 households are storeowners, laborers and fishermen. Pinontingan has two big schools namely, Bicol University Gubat Campus (BUGC) and Gubat North continue reading : Gubatnon villagers foster peace

“Mayo lamang nagkakaginiribo (They do nothing).” This is the popular remark towards Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program recipients that Leoncia Bigay, one of its beneficiaries in Ocampo, Camarines Sur, would like to confute. At present, she is the parent leader of 36 Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries in Zone 3 of Brgy. Salvacion and also a volunteer of continue reading : DSWD beneficiaries return the favor to their community

DSWD derived the final list of prioritized poor communities to be funded under Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS), one of its poverty reduction programs, from recently completed Municipal Forums in 88 municipalities in Bicol last January. From 2014-2015 alone, Bicol is allocated with P2,301,239,625.00 out of P4,497,448,175.00 grant allocation continue reading : Poor communities affected by disasters get funding from DSWD, complete start-up activities