Mapaco is one of the 44 communities of Guinobatan, a first class municipality. The said village is located at the mid upland area of Guinobatan where the lush mountains provide food, shelter and livelihood to its 1,815 inhabitants. Indigenous People (IP) or the Agta Tabangnon from Baao and Iriga City in Camarines Sur were brought continue reading : Village completes evacuation center for IPs in Albay

The people of Purok Villarin, the coastal section of Brgy. Narangasan in Milagros, Masbate used to cringe in fear for their children’s safety. Parents send their children to Day Care in three ways. They either choose Villarin’s decrepit and makeshift building along the sea, get to the neighboring purok with a 30-minute walk along the continue reading : Getting rid of seclusion through empowerment in a Masbate village

Sitio Aguada of Barangay Ternaplin, San Pascual, Masbate is the crossway of the school children and other people from all walks of life who come on foot to Poblacion and vice versa. These people are from the neighboring sitios and from another barangay such as: Busing, Nazareno and Cueva. Sitio Aguada is a coastal village continue reading : THE TRANSFORMATION OF VILLAGERS

The result of the second round of assessment conducted by the Department of Social Welfare and Development Bicol revealed that there are 369, 395 poor households in the Bicol region, as presented yesterday at the Hotel St. Ellis, Legazpi City on its Listahanan launching. The second assessment covered all rural and urban areas in the continue reading : DSWD identifies 369,395 poor households in Bicol

Poor villages in need of additional classrooms in Bicol received a total grant of Php688,986,604.7 for the construction, rehabilitation and repair of 473 school buildings from 2002 to present under the community driven development program of DSWD’s Kalahi-CIDSS (Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services) that seeks to help alleviate poverty. Out continue reading : Poor villages in Bicol get Php689 million for school buildings, to benefit 115,737 households

The Department of Social Welfare and Development will release the updated database of poor households on June 22 at the Hotel St. Ellis, Legazpi City. The new database was the result of the household assessment conducted by the Listahanan in 2015. This covered all rural and urban areas in the 6 provinces, 107 municipalities, 7 continue reading : DSWD to release the updated database of poor in Bicol

In order to maximize the impact of its social protection programs and initiatives, the Department of Social Welfare and Development has adopted convergence strategy which prevails the ideal mechanism that must be embedded in the paradigm and harmonizes the interface of the various program process owners. The main implementers of the convergence strategy are the continue reading : City/ Municipal Action Teams Trained on Bridging Leadership

Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS), a community-driven development (CDD) program of DSWD aimed to reduce poverty in poor villages, had already hired thousands of residents in the construction of community-managed projects in almost 99 poor municipalities in Bicol from 2015 to present. 47,283 workers were employed with total labor continue reading : DSWD employs thousands of residents for construction of community-managed projects under Kalahi-CIDSS program

The most profound and critical years of brain development happens between the prenatal to first four to eight years of human life, thus the need for close attention and early childhood care and development for children of this age. Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) is a very important responsibility not only of the government continue reading : Social Worker Trained on the National Early Learning Framework of the Philippines.

The Department of Social Welfare and Development is pushing for the accreditation of Civil Society Organization in the region. This is to ensure that government programs and projects are properly, efficiently, and effectively carried out by Government Agencies in partnership with CSQs and that funds are properly guarded against misuse hence the need for accreditation. continue reading : DSWD pushes for accreditation of Civil Society Organization