KORONADAL CITY – Department of Social Welfare and Development adheres to its mandate of being ‘Maagap’ to the people who needs assistance from the government. Assistant Regional Director for Operations, Gemma N. Rivera led the relief distribution of food and non-food items to internally displaced persons of Marawi. These are families temporarily staying in SOCCSKSARGEN continue reading : ARDO Rivera gives FFP to IDPs of Marawi

#MarawiClash – Many of families were affected in Marawi City siege which resulted to the mass number of internally displaced persons (IDPs). The Department of Social Welfare and Development prepared an augmentation plan to ease the plight of the affected families. Bai Zorahayda T. Taha, DSWD FOXII Regional Director said “Field Office XII has a continue reading : DSWD XII augments to #MarawiClash

SOCCSKSARGEN – The Department of Social Welfare and Development’s conduct of household assessment for On-Demand Application (ODA) is postponed indefinitely. This is relative to the declaration of martial law in Mindanao by President Rodrigo R. Duterte. DSWD Central Office sent a memorandum emphasizing that with our assessment policies, the NHTO will not operate in areas continue reading : Listahanan ODA is postponed indefinitely

SOCCSKSARGEN – The Listahanan of the Department of Social Welfare and Development targets 19,508 households for On-Demand Application and Validation. Maslama B. Hassan, Regional Field Coordinator of Region XII said: “We target to finish the ODA this second quarter of the year. The coverage is based on the Exclusion (EX02)* complaints received during the Validation continue reading : Listahanan SOCCSKSARGEN leaves no one behind

SOCCSKSARGEN – The Listahanan of the Department of Social Welfare and Development identifies about 914,012 women across the region or 48.4% from the total 1,890,202 assessed individuals belong to poor households in SOCCSKSARGEN Region. The identified poor women of the region from the 2016 Listahanan data were in North Cotabato with total poor women of continue reading : SOCCSKSARGEN has almost a million poor women – Listahanan identifies

The Depart of Social Welfare and Development spearheaded the annual observance of the 2017 Adoption Consciousness Celebration in partnership with the National Organizing Committee (NOC). The Department shall have series of activities aligned to encourage everyone to support and take part. The Celebration commenced last February 11 until 19, 2017 with the theme: “Pagmamahal Palaganapin, continue reading : DSWD 12 celebrates the Adoption Consciousness Week

The Department of Social Welfare and Development being the lead agency in social protection to set standards, register, license, accredit and provide consultative services to organizations involved in social welfare and development activities. DSWD’s role in executing the regulatory and quality assurance that enables in developing and maintaining the standards of a high performing, proactive continue reading : DSWD 12 new sets of SWDAs and Service Providers

The Department of Social Welfare and Development being the lead agency for Pillar 3 which is the Aftercare, Reintegration and Transformation Support for the Recovering Drug Dependents (RDDs) supports the government’s convergence effort to combat illegal drug use and provide government – wide full support for the rehabilitation of drug dependents. The RDDs Focal said continue reading : DSWD 12 creates TWG on RDDs