The DSWD Field Office 1 sought the support of Congressional Offices’ Representatives through their Chiefs of Staff on pending House Bills (HBs) 3411 and 4650 entitled Social Welfare and Development Agencies (SWDAs) Act and Public Solicitation Act, in a Consultation Dialogue held at DSWD, San Fernando City, La Union, recently. The Chiefs of staff, being continue reading : DSWD Field Office 01 Seeks Solons’ Support on 2 pending House Bills

At least 500 tree seedlings were planted by DSWD staff and inter-agency partners at Dallangayan, San Fernando City, La Union near the Material Recovery Facility, recently, to protect the whole community from landslide and to promote a healthier environment. Supported by San Fernando City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO), the event marks another strategy continue reading : DSWD, San Fernando City – CENRO protect landslide-prone village

DSWD enjoined Philippine National Police Regional Command (PNP ReCom) to assist in safeguarding public funds entrusted by donors through various paraphernalia such as ‘coin box,’ raffle tickets, letters, concerts-for-a-cause, donation boxes, among others. Permits of these solicitation activities and paraphernalia are given and regulated by DSWD and its counterparts at the Local Government Units (within continue reading : DSWD, PNP-Reg’l. Command to confiscate illegal, expired solicitation paraphernalia

As a ready response to the effects of ‘Typhoon Glenda’, DSWD Field Office 1 is ready to augment requests of Local Government Units (LGUs) with its 2,338 stockpile family food packs and 4,000 family food packs prepositioned in the provinces of Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, La Union and Pangasinan. At least 7,900 boxes of bottled continue reading : DSWD F01 ready to augment LGUs on ‘Typhoon Glenda’

Fifty-one (51) families whose houses were toppled by fire in Sual, Pangasinan will soon own their new houses so called ‘core shelter units’ with DSWD’s Core Shelter Assistance Program (CSAP). Construction materials amounting to Php 70,000.00 is allocated for each core shelter. The site development and other needed logistics will be the counterpart of Local continue reading : 51 Core Shelter Units to rise in Sual, Pangasinan

Persons with disability (PWDs) who never had formal schooling can now earn their diploma and training certificates through the converged services of DSWD and DepED-Alternative Learning System (ALS) called ‘I LOVE PWDs Project’. ‘I LOVE PWDs’ stand for Interactive Learning Opportunities Via Education for Persons With Disability. With DepED-ALS mobile teacher who have reached clients continue reading : DSWD, DepED – ALS complement services for ‘educable persons with disability (PWDs)

Ten (10) encoders are now facilitating data input of the entries of the Family Assessment Forms (FAFs) accurately gathered and filled out by the Enumerators deployed in the four provinces of Region 1. This is done for the special validation of the beneficiaries of Social Pension (SocPen) Program and the Modified Conditional Cash Transfer for continue reading : Special Validation for SocPen and MCCT-FNSP: FAF encoding starts