February 15, 2016 – The Department of Social Welfare and Development leads this year’s celebration of National Adoption Consciousness Week from February 15-24, 2016. The celebration, with the continuing 2015 theme “Legal na ampon ako: Anak na Totoo”, aims to raise and intensify the public’s awareness on legal adoption of abandoned, surrendered and neglected Filipino continue reading : DSWD IX sets activities to celebrate Adoption Consciousness Week

The road seemed to be an endless wandering place for young Dodong or Emilio Isnani. Being abandoned by his parents, the streets became his home back in the days. With the struggles and hardships that he had been through, many of us might probably think that he would end up shattered and devastated. But he continue reading : Driver’s Road to Success

A total of six (6) associations covering 167 families received a total amount of Php 1,210,000 livelihood assistance through the Support Service Intervention (SSI) of the Modified Conditional Cash Transfer in a turn-over activity held at Sta.Barbara Health Center, Zamboanga City on February 10. The beneficiaries are Indigenous People covered by the said program under continue reading : IP beneficiaries get livelihood aid through DSWD

We have seen the many faces of poverty, for sure. We have felt it in so many ways –in education, in employment and even when we purchase goods at the grocery. It becomes as if it’s a cycle passed on from one generation to another. Advocacies on poverty alleviation sprout like mushrooms everywhere. Companies build continue reading : Will the POOR always be with us?

Being one of the five State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) that are currently implementing ESGP-PA in Region IX, Western Mindanao State University conducted a 3-day summit for grantees held in Cecille’s Catering, Tumaga, Zamboanga City on January 29-31, 2016. Some 217 ESGP-PA grantees had the chance to join the summit after the successful conduct of its continue reading : WMSU holds summit for ESGP-PA grantees

In the Regional Management Development Conference called by the department’s new Field Office IX Regional Director, Atty. Araceli F. Solamillo on Feruary 3-4, it was emphasized that the department mandates its workforce to be the leader builder as presented by the agency’s executive committee members during the national conference. This initiative forms part of the continue reading : DSWD gears up from steerer to leader builder

In celebration of its 65th Anniversary, the Department of Social Welfare and Development recognized DSWD Field Office IX’s Municipal Action Team of Tigbao from Zamboanga Del Sur for its Best Convergence Initiative on Case Management-Group Intervention Planning. The recognition was awarded during the Praise and Loyalty awards held last January 27, 2016 in DSWD Central continue reading : DSWD IX reaps national award