The Department of Social Welfare and Development Filed Office IX with the Social Security System signed a Memorandum of Agreement on the institutionalization of the AlkanSSSya Program during the short launch held on June 23, 2014 at DSWD Conference Room. Said program aims to intensify its coverage and social security protection for all contractual and continue reading : DSWD IX inks partnership with SSS on AlkanSSSya Program Expansion
DSWD IX releases 9.7 M capital seed funds to IDPs
The Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office IX formally released the P9.7 Million capital seed funds to the forty two (42) the SEA-K associations in a turn-over ceremony held on June 20, 2014 at DSWD conference room, Zamboanga City. DSWD have identified nine hundred seventy (970) Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) formed from the continue reading : DSWD IX releases 9.7 M capital seed funds to IDPs
Battling Poverty Through Building Disaster-resilient Communities
Kumalarang, Zamboanga del Sur 06/23/2014 – In recent years, there has been a budding recognition that strengthening resilience to disasters is not only about disaster management but an essential component of all emergency and development programming. Communities with sustainable infrastructures that provide livelihoods, good levels of health care and access to a quality education are continue reading : Battling Poverty Through Building Disaster-resilient Communities
Kalahi-CIDSS: Opening a new frontier for rural education
Zamboanga Sibugay June 18, 2014 – As other children sharpen their pencils, don their backpacks and head back to school, it pains to think that far too many secondary school aged children, there are still thousands in the region cannot enroll in school. These children are generally the poorest of poor, for whom even a free continue reading : Kalahi-CIDSS: Opening a new frontier for rural education
Sports sprouts spotlight: Winning back life’s delight through Basketball
“Primo” (or cousin in local term) as they fondly call themselves, is a group of fourteen young men ages 15-21 who found great companionship when their families were transferred in Tulungatung Transitory site. “Fresh” as they recall back from their young minds how they left their humble homes when the fierce battle on September 9 continue reading : Sports sprouts spotlight: Winning back life’s delight through Basketball
NHTU-BaSulTa holds 1st leg of LGU orientation, Fieldworkers Training in Tawi Tawi
The National Household Targeting Unit-BaSulTa cluster of the Department of Social Welfare and Development conducted a simultaneous activity at Beach Side Inn, Bongao, Tawi Tawi Province on May 7-9, 2014. Said activity was an orientation for the Local Government Units (LGUs) on the 2nd nationwide household assessment and training of Area Supervisors and Enumerators in continue reading : NHTU-BaSulTa holds 1st leg of LGU orientation, Fieldworkers Training in Tawi Tawi