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) 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
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
BUTUAN CITY – “We have to do a lot of work for this year’s program implementation and ensure that all of our targets are met. Above all, we want to serve more communities who are in need of our service.” Kalahi-CIDSS Deputy Regional Program Manager Ester V. Villamor emphasized the need to work harder for continue reading : DSWD Field Office Caraga preps for 2020 NCDDP extension; doubles efforts towards CDD institutionalization
DSWD Regional and field staff of the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan – Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services ( Kalahi-CIDSS) Caraga convened to attend the 2019 Program Implementation Review on January 14 to 15, 2020 at Almont Inland Resort, Butuan City. The two-day event aimed to revisit and assess the performance of the Field continue reading : DSWD Kalahi-CIDSS Caraga holds 2019 Program Implementation Review
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-Caraga have intensified its campaign for the institutionalization of the Community-Driven Development (CDD) by gathering stakeholders from different parts of the region and explaining to them the impact of CDD to poor, vulnerable, and disadvantaged sectors and communities, on November 15, 2019, at Watergate Hotel, Butuan City. The continue reading : CDD institutionalization pushed in Kalahi-CIDSS Stakeholders’ Forum
When he was still young, Vicente L. Gausin, Jr., or “Vic”, used to tag along with his parents in their community meetings because he had nothing to do at home and he wanted to avail of the snacks during these meetings. Later on, when he was a little older, he began assisting them in facilitating continue reading : Kuwento ng Bolunterismo: A peek in the life of a youth volunteer