Tacloban City, Leyte – As part of the activities to commemorate the first year anniversary of Typhoon Yolanda, several cabinet secretaries were here on Saturday, November 8, to lead the turnover of completed permanent shelter units to typhoon survivors. Some 122 housing units in Ridge View Park, Barangay Cabalawan and 28 units in Villa Sofia, Barangay continue reading : Permanent shelters handed over to survivors to mark ‘Yolanda’ anniversary

Ormoc City, Leyte – One year after Typhoon Yolanda ravaged this city, Department of Social Welfare and Development  (DSWD) Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman expressed her admiration for the continued rehabilitation here. Sec. Soliman together with Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas, Presidential Assistant for Rehabilitation and Recovery Secretary Panfilo Lacson, and Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin were here on  continue reading : Cabinet execs visit Ormoc on ‘Yolanda’ anniv, laud progresses there

Guiuan, Eastern Samar – “Grabe! Sobra-sobra akong nagpapasalamat sa Panginoon at sa gobyerno dahil sa paggawad sa amin ng pabahay dito sa Cogon Resettlement Site  (I am extr emely grateful to God and to the government for giving us shelter here in Cogon Resettlement Site).” Typhoon Yolanda survivor Olivia Fuentes, 40, could not contain her continue reading : A dream come true for a ‘Yolanda’ survivor

Around fifty children from the seventeen (17) regions nationwide attended this year’s National Children’s Congress at Sequoia Hotel, Quezon City last October 22-26 in line with the annual Children’s Month Celebration The Top 3 Regional winners namely: Denzer Tuague (Zamboanga City); Lovely Rose Hechanova (Zamboanga Sibugay) and Diana Rose Gasque (Zamboanga del Sur) were the continue reading : Region IX exemplary kids join DSWD National Children’s Congress

The Department of Trade and Industries Region IX organized a Regional Trade Exposition dubbed as Zamboanga Peninsula Exposition (ZamPex) 2014”. The week-long affair took off last October 8-11, 2014 at the convention center of Garden Orchid Hotel, this city. The said event was participated by exhibitors from the Zamboanga Peninsula and the five regions in Mindanao which continue reading : AVRC- Rehabilitation Sheltered Workshop joins ZAMPEX 2014

Thirteen municipalities in Zamboanga del Norte, Zamboanga del Sur and Zamboanga Sibugay provinces have availed of various projects aimed to promote peace and development. The projects were funded by Payapa at MasaganangPamayana, or Pamana, an initiative of the national government through the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process, implemented using the community-driven continue reading : DSWD strengthens peace and development efforts in Zampen through PAMANA projects

More or less one thousand one hundred (1,100) jobseekers flocked for a Job Fair initiated by Sustainable Livelihood Program of Department of Social Welfare and Development held on September 26, 2014 at Zamboanga del Norte Convention and Sports Center, Dipolog City. The said affair is in collaboration with the Public Employment and Service Office (PESO) continue reading : DSWD-SLP organizes jobfair, draw thousand jobseekers

Zamboanga del Norte, October 3, 2014 – As DSWD kicks off its implementation of Kalahi CIDSS-NCDDP, the Area Coordinating Teams of Region IX are currently undergoing the basic training on KC-NCDDP process in Liloy, Zamboanga del Norte. The 10-day training which will run from September 30 to October 9, aims to equip the 216 newly-hired continue reading : KC-NCDDP readies, equips community workers