A total of 7,470 slots are available for possible replacement of poor families for the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) implemented by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) for the Set 10 beneficiaries. Enacted as a law in 2019, 4Ps is a national poverty reduction program aiming to improve the well-being of poor continue reading : Hopes high as more than 7,000 vacant slots open for possible Pantawid families
With the passage of the 4Ps Act, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office Caraga conducted a virtual orientation on the pilot implementation of Kilos-Unlad (KU) last September 9 at Bayugan City, Agusan del Sur. Kilos-Unlad is a social case management strategy which aims to guide the households (HHs) in achieving improved continue reading : Pantawid Program to conduct Kilos-Unlad pilot implementation
“Sa pagkatinuod lang, niagi gyud mi og lugaw-lugaw kay ang grocery pang kunsumo namo lisod kaayo. Dili na namo makumpleto, among gisiguro ang asukar, kape, gatas, ingon ana nalang (There were times that we only consume soft porridge rice. We could only buy the necessary things such as sugar, coffee, milk, and the like when continue reading : Kaagapay ng Pamayanan: Guiban family, Passionate, compassionate Service
“Naa toy panahon nga si Salvador gitabang kay nalipong na sa kagutom tungod wala mi ikapalit og bugas ug baay ra amoa gikaon adto nga adlaw (There was that time when Salvador almost lost consciousness because of too much hunger, because we could not afford to buy rice and all we had were some root continue reading : Kaagapay ng Pamayanan: Banwaon family gives back with sincerity
Maria Rosa Aboyba, former parent leader of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) residing in Barangay Maug, Butuan City, accepted her accumulated cash grants from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), this month. Aboyba, 49, was actively involved in the Program until 2017. Unfortunately, she contracted tuberculosis the same year. TB is normally continue reading : Sick, incapacitated program grantee receives accumulated cash grants
Former grantees of the Expanded Students’ Grants-in-Aid Program for Poverty Alleviation (ESGP-PA), implemented through the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, received cash incentives from anonymous donors. Vicselyn Bale, John Lasco, and Mary Joy Reyes, ESGP-PA scholars, who graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2018-2019, received cash gifts after the program continue reading : ESGP-PA graduates with Latin Honors receive cash incentives
“Ang pinakapaborito naming toyo, mantika, at asin ang siyang katambal ng kanin para maibsan ang nararamdaman naming gutom.” These were the words of 16-year old Julieto Espinola Jr. as he narrated the kind of life that he grew up with. Their living condition was difficult especially that they have six mouths to feed every day. continue reading : Toyo, Mantika, Asin: Batang 4Ps of Lanuza, SurSur perseveres to achieve his dreams
Isinulat ni: Margie D. Rodas Benepisyaryo ng Poblacion 1, Remedios T. Romualdez, Agusan del Norte Pagkagutom. Pagkakasakit. Pangangamba. Ang mga katagang ito ang walang patid na nagbibigay pasakit sa aking puso at buong pagkatao dulot ng kahirapan. Kahirapan na naglulugmok sa aking pamilya sa miserableng pamumuhay at ang kaginhawaan ay tila bituin na lamang continue reading : Salaysay ng Buhay ng Pamilyang Pantawid: “Sasakyan Patungong Bituin”