Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 10:19:01 +0000
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) needs P2.5 billion from the proposed 2019 national budget for the establishment and maintenance of Bahay Pag-asa Centers for youth offenders nationwide, Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon said on Thursday.
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 10:46:03 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – Senate Bill No. 2117 or the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) Act was approved on second reading on Tuesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 07:59:23 +0000
The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), a government initiative that offers conditional cash grants to the poorest of the poor families, should be a law in the Philippines, former Interior Secretary Mar Roxas said.
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 11:12:40 +0000
Children who are being tapped to commit crimes must receive ‘restorative justice’ instead of going after them by lowering the minimum age of criminal liability, former Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Corazon ‘Dinky’ Soliman said on Friday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 09:31:28 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed another retired military officer to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). Duterte named former Assistant Division Commander of the Mechanized Infantry Division of the Philippine Army Felicisimo Budiongan as DSWD undersecretary. The President signed Budiongan’s appointment paper on January 23, 2019. Budiongan served as assistant division […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 05:27:53 +0000
The DSWD should play a major role in protecting children in conflict with the law (CICL) if a lower age of criminal liability pushes through.
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 04:48:37 +0000
President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed former Malabon City Vice Mayor Mark Allan Jay Yambao as undersecretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 10:05:02 +0000
The DSWD said additional monthly increase in cash grants for unconditional cash transfer beneficiaries will push through this year.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 06:23:58 +0000
MANILA, Philippines —Some 3,488 families or 13,469 persons from regions affected by Tropical Depression “Usman” (which has weakened into a low pressure area) are still staying in evacuation centers, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said Monday.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2018 21:18:47 +0000
More than 1,000 beggars had been rounded up and taken off the streets of Metro Manila as of Christmas morning
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