Social workers start receiving COVID-19 vaccine
Around 700 workers at the Foundation for Social Welfare Services start receiving the COVID-19 vaccine
24 February 2021, 10:56am
by Laura Calleja
Health Minister Chris Fearne and Family Minister Michael Falzon were present while these workers began receiving the vaccine at the University of Malta s vaccination centre
Around 700 workers at the Foundation for Social Welfare Services (FSWS) have begun to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, the government said.
These workers include those who work directly with victims of domestic violence and addiction, detox professionals and various other workers employed in child residences run by the FSWS. They are all expected to be vaccinated by the end of the week.
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Arrested Lumad students, teachers denied access to lawyers
Screengrab from The Freeman video of Feb. 16 raid in the retreat house at the University of San Carlos-Talamban campus Cebu City.
“It contradicts the proper protocols of handling children. Supposedly they should have been brought to a social welfare facility and not in an undisclosed place.”
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
MANILA – The Lumad students who were taken by the police yesterday from the retreat house in University of San Carlos-Talamban campus in Cebu City have yet to be located, a lawyer said on Tuesday, Feb. 16, in an online program of the AlterMidya Network.
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Editorial Cartoon by John Gilbert Manantan
+ February 16, 2021 YOU don’t burn journalists for their reportorial lapses, especially in spot reportage or, in today’s idiom, livestreaming. A vet editor once said they look for “bravery” in cub reporter applicants, and by that he meant grit and wit to collect, treat a material like a pro within the quick space between fact-gathering and actual writing. You ask for balance and enterprise; you may at least wait for the long form. Any discerning news consumer knows raw reportage is supposedly treated with a degree of tentativeness.
But social media, the electronic twin of the fast-food culture, is simply devoid of restraint. Local media got the bashing from some sectors, including from one student editor who barreled off about local journalists maligning a university from which campus a supposed “rescue” operation by social welfare agents and a police unit was conducted on a delegation of lumad minors.
Published February 8, 2021, 3:47 PM
A team of researchers under the Good Governance through Data Science and Decision Support System (GODDESS) program of the Department of Science and Technology – Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DOST-PCIEERD) is currently developing a data analytics and information system that would ensure the immediate delivery of social welfare services to some 8,000 pensioners in Butuan City.
(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
The two-year project dubbed “Development of Data Analytics and Information System: Support on Social Welfare Services for Senior Citizens of Butuan City” was among the 10 newly approved projects under DOST-PCIEERD’s GODDESS program presented in an online forum held on Monday, Feb. 8.
Published January 9, 2021, 4:45 PM
Four data science projects under the Good Governance through Data Science and Decision Support System (GODDESS) Program of the Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Council for Industry, Energy, and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DoST-PCIEERD) have been approved.
DoST-PCIEERD said that the program aims to address the gap in the country’s workforce for data scientists and support research and development that will enable the government to adapt to data-driven governance and evidence-based management.
The approved projects were Development of Data Analytics and Information System: Support on Social Welfare Services for Senior Citizens of Butuan City under the Father Saturnino Urios University (FSUU); PhilRice Data Analytics Initiative (RiceLytics) of the Department of Agriculture-Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA-PhilRice); Optimization of a Decision Support System for Effective e-governance (ODeSSEE) on