Australian Embassy officials visit DSWD project sites of KALAHI CIDSS in Pilar and Donsol in Sorsogon and Legazpi City last May 26 and 27, respectively. (L-R) Rosella Agcaoili (senior program officer), Australian Ambassador David Dutton, Robyn Piti (Counselor for peace and education ) during a study visit in Brgy. Esperanza, Pilar, Sorsogon last May 26. continue reading : Australian officials conduct study visit to DSWD projects in Bicol

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) warns local chief executives (LCEs) and other government officials against people falsely identifying themselves as employees or representatives of DSWD negotiating for KALAHI CIDSS-NCDDP (Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services-National Community-Driven Development Program). Reports have reached the Department that there are individuals continue reading : DSWD warns LGUs against false KALAHI CIDSS expansion representatives

DSWD FO V Dir. Arnel Garcia discusses the regional target of KALAHI CIDSS project in front of local government officials headed by their mayors last May 13, 2014 during the Regional Accountability Reporting in Legazpi City. The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office V Director Arnel Garcia urged the local government units continue reading : DSWD urges full LGU support to community-driven development projects

The DSWD would like to address the alleged issues emanating from the procurement activities of KALAHI CIDSS project in the province of Albay. The provincial local government unit (LGU) of Albay currently leads in the implementation of KALAHI CIDSS, a pilot project in Luzon. As a poverty-reduction project implemented in Bicol since 2003, one unique feature of KALAHI CIDSS continue reading : Official press statement of DSWD on alleged procurement issues attributed to KALAHI CIDSS project

Boyet Bantigui, a KALAHI CIDSS volunteer, discusses one of their agenda during the volunteers meeting last April 2014 in Bitano, Legazpi City together with a community facilitator, a DSWD-hired field worker (in blue). “Nakakatabang ka na, nakakaukod ka pa [you help and you learn].” For more than a year of being a volunteer, that’s how continue reading : Traits that make a great volunteer

(In front) Donna Osial of DSWD, orients the press about KALAHI CIDSS project in Legazpi City during the media visit in Bitano last April 30, 2014 Legazpi City- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) conducted a media visit at Bitano, Legazpi City last April 30, 2014 to showcase the accomplished projects under Kapit-Bisig continue reading : DSWD 5 hosts media visit to pioneer project site

Fifteen local government units (LGUs) were trained by the DSWD in developing plans which includes activities, programs and projects in relation to providing equal opportunities for both men and women last April in Naga City. The three-day Gender and Development (GAD) Workshop were attended by the municipal budget officers with their respective GAD focal persons continue reading : DSWD Bicol leads planning workshop for LGUs on gender mainstreaming programs

  Dir. Arnel B. Garcia of DSWD Field Office V together with Mayor Jeanette R. Bernaldez of Bato, Camarines Sur during the inauguration of concrete pathway in Brgy. Agos last April 3, 2014. This was implemented through the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS), one of the poverty-reduction projects of continue reading : Bato village in Camarines Sur inaugurates Kalahi-CIDSS project

Nora Mayao, a housewife and a sari-sari store owner of Brgy. San Roque, Caramoan in the province of Camarines Sur, is one of the 21,655 volunteers of Kalahi-CIDSS who learned to manage community projects. In October 2013, their water system (level II) was inaugurated which is being benefited by 163 households in the said barangay. continue reading : It’s never too late to be a leader

Men and women with supernatural powers only exist in fiction. However, for some reasons you can encounter characters like them in real life. Everyday a hero is born but the way to becoming one is a bumpy ride. In a span of at least fifteen (15) hours, she prepares breakfast, lunch and dinner, neaten the continue reading : The superwoman