“Tubig ang simbolo ng magandang buhay para sa amin dito sa Sapa Pequena (Water is the symbol of good life for us in Sapa Pequena)”, said Ruth L. Bondal, 33, married to a farmer, with three children, and a Kalahi-CIDSS Project Preparation Team (PPT) community volunteer who works hard to ensure that the community has continue reading : DSWD, danum iti biag

With the onset of typhoon “Maysak” (international name) to be named “Chedeng” when it enters the Philippine Area of Responsibility in the next 24 hours, DSWD Field Office 1 (DSWD FO 1) prepares for possible immediate disaster response as the office closely monitors the path and situation of the typhoon. DSWD FO1 Regional Director Marcelo continue reading : DSWD Field Office 1 buckles up for Chedeng

A fifth class municipality in the Province of La Union, Pugo has been identified as one of the 11 Kalahi-CIDSS municipalities in Region 1. Leading the legislative branch of the local government unit of Pugo and working alongside Pugo’s local chief executive, Vice-Mayor Marino M. Tagabeng is pleased to be part of the empowerment drive brought about continue reading : Unity in a community-led municipality

  Sustaining his duty to his kabarangays after serving as barangay official and a Pantawid Pamilya volunteer, Feliciano Soliven, 52, now commits himself as a Kalahi-CIDSS community volunteer. Farming, being his main source of income for his wife and two children, Mang Feliciano secures his hopes to the services and assistance that the DSWD grants continue reading : Bayanihan, the Kalahi way

Leaving her roots from the Ifugao Province, Fe E. Alijo, 42, a Kalahi-CIDSS community volunteer from Brgy. Lacong, San Gabriel, La Union, commits to serve her co-barangay partner beneficiaries of the Kalahi-CIDSS Program to help promote progress – a potential that she has seen in Lacong the first time she stepped in the area. Now continue reading : Sowing change one person at a time

Kalahi-CIDSS community volunteers (Barangay Representation Teams <BRTs> and Project Preparation Teams <PPTs>) in Sugpon, Ilocos Sur convened for the conduct of Kalahi-CIDSS Project Development Workshop (PDW) as part of the Program’s Project Proposal Development. The PDW is a fraction of the Community Empowerment Activity Cycle (CEAC) of Kalahi-CIDSS sub-project implementation where community volunteers undergo a continue reading : Sugpon conducts Kalahi-CIDSS Project Development Workshop

Following the recently determined and decided criteria set by the different Barangay Representation Teams (BRTs) of Alilem for the upcoming sub-project prioritization process, residents of Brgy. Batbato, Alilem, Ilocos Sur gathered for the conduct of Kalahi-CIDSS 3rd Barangay Assembly (BA) where results of the Criteria Setting Workshop was relayed to the barangay. Discussions, agreements, and continue reading : Community empowerment through informed decision-making

Sugpon, a fifth class municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur and a Kalahi-CIDSS area, embraces a new system in advancing the development in their municipality and sustaining the practice of good governance in their locale. With Kalahi-CIDSS introduced in the Municipality of Sugpon, Mayor Fernando C. Quiton, Sr. welcomes the Program’s unique way of introducing development where mobilization of continue reading : Kalahi-CIDSS ways impress Sugpon Mayor