CONVERGING RESOURCES. Members of the P’yagadapuyonan Microenterprise Association standing proud before their first and main store in Barangay Poblacion, Maragusan, Compostela Valley. With a funding support from LGU Maragusan and with the proceeds from their previous Cash-For-Work projects, the Mansaka and Mandaya tribes in the town converged and established the microenterprise venture to augment their continue reading : IP tribes in ComVal unite for livelihood

Compostela, Compostela Valley Province (DSWD XI) – “Hopelessness has no room to those whose hope is in God,” said Rose Anne Valenzuela, a 19-year old Pantawid Pamilya beneficiary and Senior High School top graduate of Humanities and Social Sciences (HUMSS) at Compostela National High School. Rose Anne succeeded despite adversities and because of sheer persistence. continue reading : Pantawid: Gateway to education

WELCOMING REPATRIATES. Social workers from Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) conduct intake interview to Filipino repatriates who arrived in Davao City from Manado, Indonesia Thursday night. The 31 fishermen were welcomed by Philippine Government officials led by Special Assistant to the President Secretary Christopher Lawrence T. Go at Camp Feranil Pier, Naval Station continue reading : 31 repatriates assisted

Davao City (DSWD XI) -Twenty (20) Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries of Barangay Indangan here have just graduated from Basic Electrical Skills Training (BEST), also known as Project BEST, funded and initiated by Aboitiz Foundation, Inc. and Davao Light and Power Company, Inc. in coordination with Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), Department of Social Welfare continue reading : Aboitiz group funds livelihood skills training of Pantawid families

To prevent any form of abuse against minors, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) reiterated its guidelines to secure travel clearance for children 17 years old and below who are traveling abroad alone or without their parents. DSWD Officer-in-Charge (OIC) Emmanuel A. Leyco explained that the issuance of travel clearances for children is continue reading : DSWD travel clearance needed for minors traveling abroad alone, without parents