Sec. Soliman: Measures in place to keep a clean Pantawid Pamilya database

As part of their efforts to ensure that only the rightful beneficiaries are included in the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman emphasized that measures and systems continue to be enforced to maintain a clean database for the program. “We have a Grievance Redress System (GRS) which continue reading : Sec. Soliman: Measures in place to keep a clean Pantawid Pamilya database

Pantawid Pamilya housewives build their dream business venture with P50

Where can your P50 take you? For the beneficiaries of Pantawid Pamilya from Barangay San Isidro Sur, Binmaley, Pangasinan, their P50 brought them to their dream bangus business venture.  Binmaley is a first class municipality in the province of Pangasinan famous for its bangus (milkfish) aquaculture, due to the existence of numerous fishponds. The town continue reading : Pantawid Pamilya housewives build their dream business venture with P50

Tribal mother-grantee of Pantawid Pamilya welcomes complements to cultural practices

A 40-year-old mother from the Ati broke the stereotype of indigenous peoples (IP) being aloof, and spoke about how Pantawid Pamilya has changed her family’s way of life. The Ati is a Negrito indigenous group from Panay Island, Visayas. Leonida Bartolome of Barangay Balabag, Boracay, Malay, Aklan, said that her family’s way of life is continue reading : Tribal mother-grantee of Pantawid Pamilya welcomes complements to cultural practices

Volunteerism alive among Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries in Payatas

Around 150 parent leaders from Payatas participated in a dialogue with Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to talk about how their lives were changed by the volunteerism taught by the program. These parent leaders are partner-beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program who were elected to lead a continue reading : Volunteerism alive among Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries in Payatas

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

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