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4Ps in Central Visayas Increases

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DSWD’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) produced quite a number of initial gains in its first year of implementation in 2009 such as increase in enrollment, school attendance, number of pre-natal check-ups, children immunized and family development sessions where dicussions on parenting, family planning, etc. are being discussed, are just a few of the benefits mentioned. Not included here are the social changes that has slowly transformed communities such as availabiliy of services, parents being conscious on their responsibilities as parents and as couples, economic movement through the increased buying capacity of the poor, etc. It is surely no surprise when a lot of LGUs express their need to be identified and be part of the program.

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Rep. Cutie del Mar and DSWD-7 Distribute Close to P800T Cash Aid to T. Padilla Homeless Fire Victims

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Representative Cutie del Mar of Cebu City’s North District and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Field Office-7,  gave away cash assistance amounting to P768 thousand pesos  to the 486 fire victims of the recent fire that  ravaged Brgy. T. Padilla in Cebu City.       

At least 430 houses were totally burned and others were partially damaged  by the blaze, majority of which were shanties made of light materials. 

During the distribution, del Mar also conducted ocular inspection in the fire site and talked with the community’s local leaders about their security of tenure considering that some of the lots are privately owned.  She further assured the residents to help find ways to re-build their structures the Bayanihan way with the help of the benevolent GOs and NGOs. 

Also present during the distribution were former Congressman Raul del Mar, Dir. Ma. Evelyn Macapopbre of  DSWD-7, Brgy. Local Officials and Social Workers both from DSWD and DSWS. (pr-jbg)

 

DSWD Conducts On-Demand Application for NHTS-PR Project

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Households who were not assessed during the regular enumeration period last year in the identified areas which are considered pockets of poverty conducted by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Central Visayas can now apply for an On-Demand Application for the Department’s National Household Targeting System for Poverty Alleviation (NHTS-PR) project.

Executive Order No. 687 dated March 2010 directs all national government agencies to adopt NHTS-PR as a mechanism in identifying who and where the poor households who shall be recipients of social protection programs nationwide.

This critical activity provides an opportunity for households who were not included in the previous assessment in April 2009 to March 2010 to be listed especially those whose places of residence are identified as within the target area to be included in the Projects database.

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DSWD USEC Reviews Food for School Program

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Undersecretary Celia Yangco of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said the agency is currently reviewing the implementation of the Food for School Program (FSP) where over 38 thousand day care children in Central Visayas alone had benefited since it started in 2007.

DSWD officials all over the country handling the program met in Cebu City recently for a three day National Review and Evaluation Workshop where FSP’s implementation and accomplishments were tabled.

Earlier this month, DSWD Secretary Corazon Soliman announced that the Aquino administration plans to abolish the program due to setbacks in the system, such as leakages and wrong beneficiaries.

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4Ps, A Fighter’s Chance

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Her neighbors called her crazy, others said it was hunger that drove her but Teodora Gainsan will never admit that she was ever crazy but rather, she was simply just stressed out. However, this 80lbs. 40 year old mother of four children ages 13, 12, 10 and 5 from Maloh Siaton, Negros Oriental is far from being crazy but rather a fighter in her own right. “Ako gyud nang unahon ug pakaon akong mga anak bahala na ug ako wala di man pud ko mobati ug gutom apan mawala lang akong panan-aw ug malimot nako” (I always see to it that my children have something to eat even if I don’t, anyway I do not get hungry although I get blackouts and do not remember anything) she narrated.

Living in a barangay considered to be one of the poorest in the Municipality of Siaton, with fishing as the main livelihood, she has miraculously raised from her state of depression with the help of her community. The local school made her into a cleaning lady where she gets daily donations of various kinds such a kilo of rice, hand-me-down clothes and bags, recycled notebooks and during paydays a little cash. It is during these times that she buys

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