Negotiations between thousands of Typhoon “Pablo” survivors and social welfare officials ended on Wednesday with an agreement to review the list of relief beneficiaries.
Evangelist Brother Eddie Villanueva assailed the Department of Social Welfare and Development on Wednesday for its “failure to quickly and efficiently distribute relief goods” in areas of Mindanao that were ravaged by Typhoon “Pablo”.
Logs that tumbled down the mountains of Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental at the height of Typhoon “Pablo’s” fury will be used to build houses for those left homeless by the storm, the government said Thursday.
Most orphaned or abandoned Filipino children who are put up for adoption remain in social welfare institutions.
SOCIAL Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman had urged qualified families and individuals to provide temporary care to children who cannot live with their parents due to neglect, abuse or a family crisis, under the Foster Care Act of 2012.
NORFIL Foundation Inc., a social welfare agency in Lapu-Lapu City, is calling the attention of the parents and relatives of the minors who are under its care.
Social workers are exploring the possibility of relocating the family of the 11 year-old girl who killed her father in a flareup of domestic violence in Argao town, Cebu. “Going back to Masbate is an option. If we assess that their relatives there are capable of supporting the mother and the children, then we can [...]
A regional military commander with jurisdiction over Central Mindanao is seeking a revalidation of reports by aid agencies that up to 70,864 people had been displaced by a flare-up of violence in Maguindanao last month.
A party mate of President Benigno Aquino has questioned a major component of the government’s conditional cash transfer program, but one of the Chief Executive’s fiercest critics said the ally should be questioning something else instead.
The Philippines will not solve the problem of rising criminality by sending more children to jail.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development is studying proposals to extend the government’s conditional cash transfer program to poor children aged 15 to 18 to encourage them to complete their high school education, Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman said here on Friday.
While its effectiveness continues to be doubted, the government’s big-budgeted cash doleout and subsidy to indigent families, the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), has actually spurred students to attend classes in some towns and cities, according to a research by a state think tank.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has decided to waive the compliance requirements for recipients of its cash grants in those parts of Northern Mindanao that were ravaged by Tropical Storm “Sendong.”
