ASSISTANCE. Beneficiaries of the Balik Probinsya, Bagong Pag-asa Program from Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental receive their assistance from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in March 2022. All recipients of the program are monitored by their respective local governments to determine the technical assistance they need for referral to concerned government agencies.(Photo courtesy of Maricar Calubiran) ILOILO CITY - The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has provided over PHP25 million in transitory support family package (TSFP) and livelihood settlement grant to 388 families of the Balik Probinsya, Bagong Pag-asa Program in Western Visayas (Region 6) during the first half of 2022. DSWD 6 Promotive Services Division Chief Luna Moscoso, in a phone interview on Friday, said 106 of the target 500 families assessed last year received their support package. Subsequently, 101 of them were provided with livelihood grants, amounting to PHP9 million. As of
One of the permanent shelter sites for displaced families in Marawi City (PNA photo by Divina M. Suson) MARAWI CITY - For more than four years, Norhaima Ditucalan's family was at her grandparents' house in Ditsaan Ramain, Lanao del Sur, some 10 kilometers away from Marawi City where they lived for decades. Ditucalan used to live with her three other siblings and their families at a three-story house in Barangay Datu Naga inside the most affected area (MAA) of the 2017 siege. Their source of income was a small store on the ground floor. When the siege broke out on May 23, 2017, Ditucalan's household fled to Ditsaan Ramain and took shelter with their grandparents. On Friday, Ditucalan's familywas seen cleaning a housing unit in Barangay Gadongan, site of one of the 250 permanent shelters that the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN Habitat) and the National Housing Authority (NHA) constructed for them. The 150 units were built by theUnited Nations Human Settlem
One of the permanent shelter sites for displaced families in Marawi City (PNA photo by Divina M. Suson) MARAWI CITY - For more than four years, Norhaima Ditucalan's family was at her grandparents' house in Ditsaan Ramain, Lanao del Sur, some 10 kilometers away from Marawi City where they lived for decades. Ditucalan used to live with her three other siblings and their families at a three-story house in Barangay Datu Naga inside the most affected area (MAA) of the 2017 siege. Their source of income was a small store on the ground floor. When the siege broke out on May 23, 2017, Ditucalan's household fled to Ditsaan Ramain and took shelter with their grandparents. On Friday, Ditucalan's familywas seen cleaning a housing unit in Barangay Gadongan, site of one of the 250 permanent shelters that the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN Habitat) and the National Housing Authority (NHA) constructed for them. The 150 units were built by theUnited Nations Human Settlem