The DSWD Field Office 9 officially started the assessment of households in all rural and urban areas in the provinces of Zamboanga Sibugay and Zamboanga del Norte last week in order to update the list of the poor nationwide. 125,812 target households are expected to be assessed in Zamboanga Sibugay during the data-collection phase of continue reading : Listahanan 3 household assessment begins in Zambo Sibugay and Zambo del Norte

The DSWD Field Office 9 officially concluded the five-day training for enumerators in all of its clusters in Zamboanga Peninsula yesterday. A total of 1,006 enumerators had to go through a five-day training in order to prepare them in the upcoming household assessment. The training, which was conducted simultaneously, began on November 11, while the continue reading : 5-day training for Listahanan enumerators officially concludes in Zamboanga Peninsula

The Department of Social Welfare and Development recently recognized children beneficiaries across the country as national advocates of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or more popularly known as 4Ps. During the Araw ng Kabataan held in Pasig City last November 23, 17 exemplary children were awarded as program advocates that will promote the gains and continue reading : DSWD recognizes 4Ps children as program advocates

The DSWD Field Office 9 joined the 2019 Mindanao Communications Network (MCN) Serbisyo Caravan last October 24 at the Municipality of Leon B. Postigo. The activity is inclined to President Rodrigo Duterte’s Executive Order 70, “institutionalizing the whole-of-nation approach in attaining inclusive and sustainable peace, creating a National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed continue reading : DSWD joins MCN Serbisyo Caravan

In line with National Family Week Celebration, the Department of Social Welfare and Development gathered the beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program in a 1-day activity which aimed to celebrate the values and successes of Filipino families. The Family Day 2019 was held last October 06, 2019 at the Scout Limbaga, Pasonanca, Zamboanga City continue reading : DSWD gathers 4Ps beneficiaries for Family Day

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office IX through the Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) held its Partnership Forum in LM Metro Hotel, Zamboanga City on October 1, 2019. Attended  by Participants from the different Government Agencies, Private Sector, and other institutional partners, the forum intends to provide updated and appropriate planned programs continue reading : DSWD holds Forum to Strengthen Partnership on Sustainable Livelihood

Joan France, a 24-year old gal, is from Balangasan, Pagadian City.  She is the eldest daughter of Julieta Nillas-Piedad and Francisco Piedad.  Just like any other teenager, she dreamed of finishing her college degree. Her parents want to make her dream possible. Even her father works as laborer and her mother is a housewife; they continue reading : A Heart’s Desire

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), together with the City Government of Zamboanga honored the heroes of the devastating Zamboanga siege on its 6th-year commemoration on September 9, 2019 at City Grounds, Zamboanga City. The commemoration activity entitled A Special Day of Remembrance was conducted to pay tribute to the fallen heroes who continue reading : DSWD joins commemoration of Zamboanga siege