“Gusto ko maging guro paglaki ko. Ngunit paano? Ako ay isang lumpo”. ( I want to be a teacher when I grow up. But how can I? I am crippled.) Ana Mae claimed. Anna Mae Laguerta, 10 years old from Barangay Masinas, Sorsogon City was born to be a normal and a healthy baby, the continue reading : A Girl’s Dream

Laurente is utterly poor and several persons can attest to this. Teresita lived through the pains of indigence. She lived in a community with profuse natural endowments but few opportunities. As a fish vendor, she even traveled to other villages to increase her sales. She usually carried a bucketful of fish and sometimes traversed a continue reading : The women who changed Laurente

Primo Pinoy, Jr. of Barangay Malama, Ligao City was recently awarded as the 2014 Regional Exemplary Child of Pantawid Pilipino Program. The award was given by the Department of Social Welfare and Development to recognize children of Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries who are compliant with the program’s conditionalities and advocate/harness support from different stakeholders. The search continue reading : Primo Pinoy of Ligao Conferred as the 2014 Regional Exemplary Child

A tripartite agreement on greening program has been forged between DSWD,DENR and SM FOUNDATION INC.(SMFI) last Sept.3, 2014 in SM City Naga. The program dubbed as “Grow a Million Trees” hopes to create a healthier and clean surroundings and to help provide sustainable livelihood opportunities to the people in the area. This also bring together continue reading : DSWD-DENR-SM Foundation Inc. inks MOA on greening program

Legazpi City–            The Department of Social Welfare and Development Bicol have completed the special validation for the Social Pension and Modified Conditional Cash Transfer Program for Families in Need of Special Protection (MCCT-FNSP) program. Some 10,643 social pensioners and 472 MCCT beneficiaries all over the region were validated through house to house interviews. “The distance continue reading : SOCPEN, MCCT Special Validation Completed

Mababangbaybay is one of the 21 coastal barangay of Claveria, Masbate. It is actually not an island but could hardly reach by land transportation since it has no established road yet. In 2008, the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program  (4Ps) was introduced in Masbate and the town of Claveria was included in the set 1 implementation continue reading : Success Comes in Pairs

The Social Welfare and Development Employees Association of the Philippines – Mga Kawaning Sama-sama sa Mapag- paunlad na Asosasyon sa Bicol, Inc. (SWEAP – KASAMA SA Bicol, Inc.) of DSWD, Field Office V now turns 18 this year. Founded mainly to protect and work for the promotion of the general benefit, rights and common interest continue reading : The SWEAP –KASAMA sa BICOL on its 18 YEARS of EXISTENCE

Legazpi City— More than 23,000 households benefit from streetlights in 85 baranagays all over Bicol region funded under PAyapa at MAsaganang PamayaNAn (PAMANA), another poverty-reduction project of the Philippine government under DSWD, one of its implementing agencies. From 2011 to present, there are 2,661 streetlights installed in nine (9) municipalities providing homes security and safer continue reading : Safer streets for Bicolanos, lampposts illuminate 85 communities

The 2014 winners of the search for Huwarang Pantawid Pamilya in Naga City and Camarines Sur were vested during the simple awarding ceremony held at Starview  Hotel, Naga City recently. In Naga City, the Malasa family of Barangay Balatas is the 2014 Huwarangg Pantawid Pamilya of Naga City, followed by the Braga family of Brgy continue reading : Huwarang Pantawid Pamilya Winners Recognized

Ligao City     –        Some 112 out-of-school-youths and youth service providers from 22 municipalities in Bicol region have joined the Pag-asa Youth Association of the Philippines (PYAP) 40th  Foundation and Nutrition Summit held at the Kawa Kawa hill, Tuburan, Ligao City on August 7-9, 2014. The theme for this year’s celebration is “PYAP Maabilidad! Kalamidad Pagahandaan: continue reading : PYAP Bicol holds 40th Foundation & Nutrition Summit