To love and to forgive. These are two things that people of Brgy. Velasco, Lemery, Iloilo learned from Tanutan family, this year’s winner of the National Search for the Huwarang Pantawid Pamilya. The family was able to rise above the challenges brought about by poverty with only one parent taking care of the entire household. continue reading : Defying stereotypes: How Tanutan family inspires a community despite the absence of a father
UNICEF’s unconditional cash grants to benefit Pantawid Pamilya families in E. Visayas
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), through the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), will extend financial assistance to beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) in Eastern Samar who were worst affected by super Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda. UNICEF’s Unconditional Cash Transfer (UCT) program will benefit 5,801 4Ps households in Eastern Samar, namely the continue reading : UNICEF’s unconditional cash grants to benefit Pantawid Pamilya families in E. Visayas
From challenges to changes
To embrace it with optimism is what the 33-year-old Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program beneficiary Atiya Enting Jumdail always does whenever she faces a new challenge on her life. She says that every challenge that comes her way brings a perfect opportunity to learn through change. To her, learning through challenges is a strategy that has continue reading : From challenges to changes
CCT program still a work in progress
GENERAL SANTOS CITY: The government’s Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program is still a work in progress and its implementor, the Department of Social Welfare and Development, does not pretend to claim that it is being smoothly implemented. Overall, however, the program is seen as a success since the poorest of the poor are saved from continue reading : CCT program still a work in progress
Rising from ‘poorest of the poor’ in T’Boli
Farmer Johnny Tolentino recalls how he was barely surviving hand-to-mouth when he first received five years ago the P4,000 cash assistance from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) under its Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps). “You can’t imagine,” the 43-year-old man said. “What we needed to eat for lunch, we still needed to continue reading : Rising from ‘poorest of the poor’ in T’Boli
Pantawid Pamilya inspires violence-free communities
We are no stranger to horrible accounts of violence committed against women and children. Heart- breaking narratives of wives being beaten to death by their jealous husbands and children raped by the people who should be protecting them are sometimes trivialized as nothing extraordinary but a matter of the family. Violence against women and children continue reading : Pantawid Pamilya inspires violence-free communities
Toward ‘better’ families
Subic- Leonie Nervida, 47, lives in a tiny, two-room apartment that lies at the end of a row of similarly small apartments in Barangay New Banicain in this city. She shares the single bedroom with her husband Francisco (“Nanie”) who, at 60, is 13 years older than she. They have eight children (“I had three continue reading : Toward ‘better’ families
Sec. Soliman leads advisory committee visit to IP communities
Coron, Palawan – Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) led the Joint National and Regional Advisory Committee (N/RAC) meeting in this municipality last April 23-25, 2014. The field visit aims to highlight the convergence strategy of the Department which allows the beneficiaries, particularly the Indigenous People (IP), to benefit continue reading : Sec. Soliman leads advisory committee visit to IP communities
DSWD, DLSU-SDRC forge partnership
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) represented by Director Rodora T. Babaran, National Program Manager of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program and De La Salle University- Social Development Research Center (DLSU-SDRC) represented by Dr. Melvin A. Jabar, Director of DLSU-SDCRC signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on April 28, 2014. The partnership is part continue reading : DSWD, DLSU-SDRC forge partnership
3 universities vie for DSWD Docu-Film Competition
Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP), De La Salle College of St. Benilde and the Lyceum University of the Philippines competed for the First Convergence Documentary Film-Making Contest of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) last March 14, 2014 at the National Center for Culture and the Arts (NCCA). The documentary-making competition was continue reading : 3 universities vie for DSWD Docu-Film Competition