Simultaneous to the conduct of second semester payout to beneficiaries of the Social Pension Program for Indigent Senior Citizens in Magallanes, Agusan del Norte, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) also conducted a modified information caravan to strengthen advocacy on the agency’s programs and services to the residents last July 23, 2020. continue reading : DSWD reaches out to remote village in Magallanes
BUTUAN CITY – Majority of indigenous peoples (Lumads) communities within the ancestral domains in Caraga Region have adopted the Disaster Response Operation Procedure (DROP) implemented by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. DSWD, through the Kalahi-CIDSS PAMANA IP CDD Program have conducted a series of municipal orientations, including continue reading : Lumad communities in Caraga adopt DROP to fight Covid-19
All the villagers could do is watch in horror as the only wooden bridge in their community gets pounded by logs and debris carried by raging waters from the mountains time and again during the rainy season. Every time this happens, they are stranded in their village, cut off from the rest of their continue reading : Community project delivers for flood-prone Lianga village
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), together with the 73 local government units (LGUs) in Caraga Region, have served more than 140,000 beneficiaries of the Social Pension Program for Indigent Senior Citizens for the first semester of 2020. As of May 20, 2020, a total of 143,302 out of the 170,000 target continue reading : 2020 1st sem Social Pension payout in Caraga nears completion
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Offices (FO) Caraga has been commended, through the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan – Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS) Program, after achieving the highest final rating for the 2019 Regional Finance Performance Monitoring. Kalahi-CIDSS is one of the poverty alleviation programs of the government continue reading : Kalahi-CIDSS Caraga tops 2019 Regional Finance Performance Monitoring
Amid all these emergency subsidy brouhaha, a few made a difference by showing that honesty is still the best policy in these trying times. As businesses were closed, public transportation halted, and people lose their jobs and livelihood due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the government acted right away by implementing the Social Amelioration Programs (SAP), continue reading : Honest Caraganons return SAP subsidy
The fish production project of Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan – Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS) in the towns of Marihatag and Barobo in Surigao del Sur province, yielded a total of 5,807 kilos of bangus (milkfish) on its first harvest. The fish culture project in Barangay Amontay, Marihatag yielded a total of continue reading : Kalahi-CIDSS fish cage projects yield 5,807 kilos of bangus
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office Caraga, through the partnership with the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) Butuan City, conducted an information drive on the Executive Order (EO) No. 70 at Butuan City Jail (BCJ) on March 2, 2020. Both the DSWD and the BJMP have great responsibilities in continue reading : DSWD, BJMP converge to inform PDLs on EO 70