Serving the best welfare and interest of Day Care Children and DSWD’s contribution to the Millennium Development Goal Number 1, the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, the Supplementary Feeding will continue to feed at least 97,026 Day Care Children in Region 1 for 2014. For 2013, DSWD downloaded Php 136,000,000.00 to the Local Government continue reading : DSWD’s Supplementary Feeding Program, on its 4th year

To determine the poverty status of the Social Pension Program for indigent Senior Citizens and Modified Conditional Cash Transfer for Families in Need of Special Protection (MCCT-FNSP) beneficiaries/recipients who are not registered in the Listahanan database of poor households, the Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office 1 (DSWD FO1) conducts special validation in continue reading : DSWD to validate Social Pension Program and MCCT-FNSP beneficiaries

A dream came true with vermiculture. A practical and environment-friendly, earning enterprise has reached 299 Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries in Solsona, Ilocos Norte, who are now maintaining 716 beds/units of vermi worms. It can be recalled that in 2011, DSWD’s Cash for Work Program was tapped by the Local Government of Solsona for the restoration of continue reading : Solsona Pantawid Beneficiaries Arise in ‘Vermiculture’ from DSWD’s Cash for Work

On May 1, 2014, Labor Day,  DSWD released Php 77,000.00 capital assistance to 10 Pantawid beneficiaries for their soft broom and wine making projects which are among the viable projects in Adams, Ilocos Norte. This assistance was made possible in coordination with the District Office of Congressman Rodolfo Fariñas to support the income generating activities continue reading : DSWD awards capital assistance to Adamians

At least 50 men and 15 evangelical church pastors trained on DSWD’s ERPAT are now setting trends in community participation, savings mobilization, gender sensitivity, and in building better families in Anda, Pangasinan. With the supervision of Municipal Social Welfare and Development Officer Jowey Celso, strategies and success stories of fathers trained by DSWD on Empowerment continue reading : ERPAT trained fathers in Anda, Pangasinan now on groundworks

“We are no poor now!” This is how some of the Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries of Anda, Pangasinan proudly describe themselves now that they can see the fruits of their sacrifices after investing into organic agriculture. Through the Self Help Group (SHeG) initiated by the Local Government of Anda with the supervision of Head Social Worker continue reading : Proud first time farmers in Anda, Pangasinan are Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries

Dreaming is free but it should be worked out. This is the guiding life principle of 20 year-old Loudemer C. Dolorso from Brgy. San Benito Sur, Aringay, La Union, an Out of School Youth (OSY) and a beneficiary of Sustainable Livelihood Program-Bottom Up Budgeting (SLP-BUB) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office continue reading : Loudemer, the kind-hearted dreamer

At least 600 Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries are now indulged in their own micro lending activities through savings of their Self Help Groups (SHeGs). Capitalizing on own group savings, an average amount of  Php 42,000.00 and above  is earned by every SHeG with a   Php 20.00 weekly contribution for a year. Introduced by Panangaro Foundation and continue reading : Anda Pantawid Beneficiaries now on microfinance with SHeG approach