DSWD to compile success stories in coffee table book

BENEFICIARIES of the government’s Kapig-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS) project in Bohol and Siquijor provinces underwent a story-writing workshop for a big project: a coffee-table book telling the successes of Kalahi-CIDSS project in the provinces.

The workshop, held last June 14-15 at the Water Paradise Hotel in Tagbilaran City, was participated in by community volunteers including farmers, fisherfolks, barangay officials and people organization heads of the 14 Makamasang Tugon areas in Bohol and Siquijor.

The workshop intended to equip community volunteers not only with technical skills on basic story-writing in Cebuano but also with organizational skills to help them form and manage a core group of community-based writers when they get back to their communities.

Nemia Antipala, assistant regional director of the Department of Social Welfare in Central Visayas (DSWD-7), encouraged the participants to write success stories and best practices of their communities for the coffee table book.

The book will document the success stories and best practices as well as award the communities that exercise participatory and transparent governance and community empowerment.

Kalahi-CIDSS is a poverty-reduction program implemented by the DSWD. It has served 14 municipalities in Bohol and Siquijor since 2003. These municipalities are now called Makamasamang Tugon.