At Barangay Colongcogong, Caramoan, Camarines Sur, beneficiaries of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program of Department of Social Welfare and Development leads the way to easily access medicines to their community folks. Over the past years, all residents in the community have no access to medicines. With this, they resorted for alternative medicines and herbals to cure continue reading : Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries leads access to medicines

“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

The DSWD Field Office V through the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) now known as Listahanan is set to conduct another special validation to some 5,180 households next week. The special validation will target those families that are not included in the Listahanan database for inclusion in the Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program. continue reading : DSWD Bicol readies for another special validation

They call us the lower class, the twerps, a burden to the government. They dub us dependents, supposedly merely after government doles. They call us the poorest of the poor, the beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps). Let me tell you people, we are less fortunate but we are not stupid. Yes, we continue reading : I’m a 4Ps scholar

Ms Julie Ann Gregory, a Community Empowerment Facilitator of DSWD Field Office V is this year’s champion of the recently concluded DSWD Got Talent Nationwide Invasion held at DSWD Central Office in Quezon City last January 31. Competing with other regions who presented various talents, Ms. Gregory still made it to the top. She rocked continue reading : DSWD Bicol and partners get national recognition during the 64th Anniversary

The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program of Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office V open’s the selection to its existing beneficiaries to register their children and be monitored by the program in education. The open selection gives chance to identified beneficiaries of the Program to newly register, add, change, select the child they wanted continue reading : Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program opens the selection of children for monitoring

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

Legazpi City—The DSWD Field Office 5 informs the public that the last day of registration for the educational assistance closed last February 2, 2015 covering the second semester for school year 2014-15.   “Lahat ng pumila kahapon ay nabigyan ng schedule for interview para sa educational assistance,” Dir. Arnel Garcia said.   During the registration continue reading : DSWD 5 closes educational assistance registration for second semester,school year 2014-15

Rosa Gonzales, 76, sighed with a relief when she recalled how she and her colleagues erected a great wall which eliminated doubts from others. Even more, her worries subsided when that 60-meter seawall was completed in June 27, 2014 though Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS). Kalahi-CIDSS is a DSWD continue reading : Seawall built by villagers breaks down barriers

The DSWD’s National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) now known as Listahanan is set to conduct the second round of household assessment this year. With the target of 1,087,720 households to be assessed, the DSWD Field Office 5 needs to hire 3,450 field workers to be deployed region wide. The department will now continue reading : DSWD Bicol to fill 3,450 field workers