The poor village of Iyagan in Baao, Camarines Sur worked hard for their first concrete access road. The 1.71 km pathway was completed in 2013 and since then, everyone in the community is reaping the benefits of what they sacrificed for. Necita Mesa, a housewife with three children, was one of the residents who built continue reading : A housewife learns the basics of construction

DSWD targets to train more than 7,000 residents on project proposal making as part of the Project Development Workshop (PDW) conducted through Kalahi-CIDSS (Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services). The said training started last March and will end this April in 88 municipalities and 2,490 communities are the recipients of the continue reading : DSWD trains thousands of Bicolanos on project proposal making

The municipality of Rapu-rapu, Albay kicks off enumeration on Tuesday to update the list of poor families in the region. Due to its geographic location, Rapu-Rapu was piloted to the conduct of the second round of household assessment. The said town has a target of 6,649 households to be assessed. “In this second enumeration, we continue reading : DSWD Bicol kicks off enumeration in Rapu-Rapu town

Security personnel of Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office V was commended for his exemplary honesty when he returned a plastic envelope full of money amounting to P1.188M (P330,000 cheque and P858,000 cash) to its owner—local government unit of Prieto Diaz, Sorsogon. Noel L. Lorilla of Urduja Security Services Incorporated recovered the money continue reading : DSWD FOV honest security guard returned P1.18M worth of money to Prieto Diaz, Sorsogon

Legazpi City–The key officials of the national government agencies (NGAs) and DSWD’s development partners visited two towns in Bicol for the Third Implementation Support Mission last April 9, 2015 to look into the enhancements of Kalahi-CIDSS program of DSWD. Members of World Bank, Asian Development Bank (ADB) together with the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) and continue reading : DSWD holds 3rd Joint WB-ADB-DFAT Implementation Support Mission in Bicol

Legazpi City—The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office 5 hosted a three-day national project concept formulation on March 11-14, 2015 at Hotel St. Ellis to support one of the agency’s poverty reduction programs, Kapit-bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS). Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo continue reading : DSWD Bicol hosts project concept formulation workshop for improved local governance and DRRM

Nenelyn Cordez, 27, carrying her daughter Xiara Mae, 3, of Barangay Bikal, Caramoan, Camarines Sur with a smile and a hopeful face, Nenelyn dreamt of having a sustained living to attain her dreams for her family. *** Blessed with its fine powdery white sand, beautiful laggoons, caves, limestone cliffs, and majestic rock formations, the Caramoan continue reading : Caramoan’s booming tourism helps Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries gain income

In line with the Women’s month celebration with a national theme: “Juana desisyon ma ay mahalaga sa kinabukasan ng bawat isa, Ikaw na! The DSWD Field Office 5 in coordination with the Regional Inter-agency Against Trafficking and Violence Against Women and Children( RIACAT-VAWC) has lined-up the following activities: a foot parade and zumba, radio and continue reading : BICOL celebrates Women’s month

So near yet so far away. The island barangay of Busing is only two nautical miles or 3.7 kilometers away from the town of San Pascual in Burias island of Masbate province. Out of the 22 barangays of San Pascual, it is described to be one of the impoverished. The sea surrounding Busing is a continue reading : The road most traveled