Residents of Barangay Tudela, Trento, Agusan del Sur hope and seek to improve their community’s health with the construction of their barangay health station sub-project now underway. The said sub-project amounting to Php1, 340,814 is funded through the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS) program. Although the community has an continue reading : Building better health station for Barangay Tudela

The practice of “panawagtawag” or the imploring of the spirits of nature for guidance and blessing is a long-time tradition of the Manobo lumads of Caraga. They believe that there is a harmonious scheme of things and that people and nature co-exist with the interference of spirits/deities, ruled by Magbabaya (supreme deity of the human world).To continue reading : Manobo’s “panawagtawag” for their Kalahi-CIDSS-funded tribal hall

The spirit of Bayanihan lives on as community volunteers of Sitio Bocbocon, Brgy. Durian, Las Nieves, Agusan del Norte  gather and work together relentlessly notwithstanding the intense heat of the sun to build a road for easier transport and delivery of materials for the construction of  the Tribal Center sub-project which will be implemented under continue reading : The spirit of communal unity

Anne Aileen Friaz, resident of Barangay Poblacion, Cagdianao, Province of Dinagat Islands, works incessantly for the completion of their 1 unit, 3- classroom high school building sub-project implemented through Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan –Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS) program. She is one of the Procurement Team volunteers of the program and one continue reading : Beyond ordinary service

Lilonda Ontua (center) together with community volunteers of Poblacion, Barobo, Surigao del Sur, are acknowledged during the conduct of the KALAHI CIDSS – NCDDP Cycle 1 culmination, for their selfless act of giving their time and effort in ensuring that the program implementation in their community is successful. Kalahi-CIDSS ensures that the voice of the continue reading : Best Volunteer

“Kung wala ang Kalahi-CIDSS diri sa Veruela, dili nato makab-ot and dakong kabag-uhan sa atong lungsod. Padayon pa unta ang supporta sa DSWD sa lungsod sa Veruela (If Kalahi-CIDSS was never introduced to Veruela, our municipality would never have this grand improvement. Hopefully, DSWD will continue to support Veruela),” says Mayor Salimar T. Mondejar, Municipal continue reading : Grand improvement

Surigao del Sur – “We have to continue what we have started and we must ensure that we continue on the gains we have had with Kalahi in the previous years”. Regional Director Minda B. Brigoli encouraged the jam-packed crowd at the Barobo Municipal Gym, Barobo, Surigao del Sur last October 15, 2015 during the continue reading : DSWD – Caraga Fast Tracks 2015-2016 Kalahi-CIDSS Implementation