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

The Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office 5 has convened the Municipal/City Social Welfare Officers in the provinces of Camarines Sur and Masbate yesterday at Kanzo Hall, Legazpi City. Social Pension Focal Person, Lloyd Lara said that the department updates the Local Government Unit (LGU) for the new guidelines particularly the general provision continue reading : DSWD 5 updates LGU implementers on the SOCPEN Program

The Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office 5 continues its recruitment for Listahanan or the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR), the country’s information system that identifies who and where the poor are nationwide. Interviews of applicants are conducted in six provincial offices of the department every Friday. The field office continue reading : DSWD Bicol continues pooling of applicants for Listahanan

Fe B. Caraza, (right) an entrepreneur who finds success in business despite her disability. Her secret are love for family, caring and doing good deeds to people, and hard work. She put up a stall outside Naga City government office where she sells nutritious food like soya bread, milk, carrot juice, veggie meat, tokwa and continue reading : Differently abled entreprenuer and her success

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

The Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office-Bicol Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, recently conducted National Training on Gender-Responsive Governance and Participatory Gender Audit in Legazpi City. The training aims to: a. increase the capacity of the field staff in applying technical skills in gender and wider knowledge on gender-responsive governance; b. enhance Gender and continue reading : National training on gender-responsive governance and participatory gender audit held

The Department of Social Welfare and Development Bicol headed by Director Arnel B. Garcia awarded the certificate of completion and acceptance of 50 core shelter units worth 3.5 million to family beneficiaries in Barangay Lamon, Goa, Camarines Sur on March 4, 2014. Mayor Antero Lim said that the local government of Goa purchased the lot continue reading : Families get new DSWD core houses

Christian Taglucop, 21, of Barangay Nipa, Palanas, Masbate, is a beneficiary of SGPPA of DSWD Pantawid Pamilya. Before, for him entering in college is impossible. But now, he said he will not waste the opportunity provided to him to continue his plan and attain the better future for his own and his family. ******** He continue reading : Dreams do happen

Legazpi City─ The DSWD here will hire some 1,315 employees in preparation to the forthcoming implementation of the National Community-Driven Development Program (NCDDP), a scale-up of the successful implementation of Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS) sometime this second quarter. Applications are now accepted for those who have background in continue reading : DSWD Bicol to hire 1,315 workers under its new program

She bags and sifts gravel and sand. Even fills-up the hefty water drum. She shovels, mixes, pours, and spreads concrete. She smoothens and finishes freshly poured cement. Even carries hollow blocks one at a time. A routine she quickly acclimatized for over a month of exposure to these things. “Kaya talaga ng mga babae. Kung continue reading : The mighty rose