The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Central Visayas continues to protect children from possible child trafficking, abuse, and exploitation by issuing travel clearance to minors traveling alone or with companions. From January to September 2024, DSWD 7 issued 1,566 travel certificates to minors going abroad, while a total of 1,668 certificates in continue reading : DSWD 7: secure travel clearance for minors traveling abroad ahead of time
Some 8,114 individuals received PHP 5,000 in financial assistance from the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Ayuda sa Kapos Ang Kita Program (AKAP), which aims to assist low-income and minimum-wage earners affected by high inflation or increasing prices of basic commodities. DSWD distributed the assistance on August 24, 2024, in the City of continue reading : Over 8K individuals benefit from AKAP
Beneficiaries of the Social Pension program of DSWD can now receive their stipend monthly, bimonthly, or quarterly instead of the previous per semester payout. The new frequencies of payout came after Secretary Rex Gatchalian’s directive to all the field offices to follow and use the new distribution schedule to ensure that the beneficiaries receive their continue reading : Social Pension program introduces new schedule of payout
The Area Vocational Rehabilitation Center (AVRC) II of DSWD 7 received donated equipment comprising twenty desktop computers, a tarpaulin printer, and a heat press machine worth PHP 1.5 million from Bingo Plus Foundation, Inc. BPFI executives and officials such as Chief Operations Officer Celeste Jovenir, Executive Director Angela Camins-Wieneke, Program Manager Paul Tamayo, and Program continue reading : Unlocking potentials of PWDs with Bingo Plus’ donated equipment
The year 2 of the Annual Visayas Cluster Meeting of the Supplementary Feeding Program was hosted by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Central Visayas in Panglao, Bohol, on August 28-30, 2024. It brings together the SFP implementers, which include nutritionist dietitians, project development officers, administrative staff, and focal persons, to convene continue reading : DSWD 7 holds Visayas cluster meet for SFP implementers