DSWD REGION X PUTS-UP ADOPTION INFORMATION DESK AT SM CITY
Tuesday, 07 February 2012 12:13 | 
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In line with the country's Adoption Consciousness Week celebration, DSWD, the leading institution promoting legal adoption in the country, has put up an adoption information desk at SM City, Cagayan de Oro City from February 4–10, 2012.
The said information desk was put up to answer queries on legal adoption and serve as a centre for promoting legal adoption awareness, especially in supporting this year’s theme, “Isulong LEGAL na PAG_AAMPON”! The said theme was formulated after the department was alarmed on the increasing number of simulated birth certificate reports, and growing number of cases associated with adoptions going through irregular or illegal processes. The move is also inspired by the idea of having a well-aware and supportive public on the issue of adoption.
DSWD, together with the local government of Cagayan de Oro City is hoping that through this year’s Adoption Consciousness Week celebration, more families and individuals will see the importance of legal adoption, thus opening their hearts and homes to these deprived children whose biological parents and legal guardians could not necessarily provide for their needs.
DSWD is doing its best to convince everyone through this year’s celebration that going though the legal adoption process is more beneficial for both child and adoptive parents/parent, compared to an irregular or deceitful one.
DSWD ADDRESSES ISSUES ON FAMILY ACCESS CARDSFriday, 03 February 2012 12:22 | | |
The Department of Social Welfare and Development is announcing to the internally displaced families who do not have Family Access Cards to visit the DSWD Regional Office for issuance of the cards. However, the office is emphasizing that prior to having them issued to the requesting families, a validation and assessment by social workers must be done in the barangays where the families’ houses were damaged due to Tropical Storm Sendong. “We are receiving feedbacks that there are still internally displaced families requesting for the Family Access Cards and the DSWD are indeed obliged to issue them these; but to avoid doubling of cards per family and to avoid over-serving and underserving of families, our social workers have to validate and assess the condition of the family’s house first,” Charmaine Tadlas, Regional Information Officer of DSWD-X, says. She says that the social workers are to visit the barangays where the families’ reside and assess and validate the condition of their houses with the barangay officials there. “It would certainly take a while, but the assessment is necessary since we want every family to receive relief goods and benefits from the government and that no family is over-served and underserved,” Tadlas says. The DSWD is also addressing to the families who did not stay in evacuation centers that they can claim their relief goods in the nearest evacuation center in their area. All they need to do is present their Family Access Card to the Camp Managers.
INTERNALLY DISPLACED FAMILIES TO START TRANSFERRING ON FEBRUARYMonday, 30 January 2012 10:33 | | |
This was pronounced by Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman of the Department of Social Welfare and Development to the internally displaced families staying in West City Central School and City Central School, Cagayan de Oro City, both of which have the highest number of evacuees. Secretary Soliman said that as soon as the tents in Calaanan Tent City will be vacated by families who will transfer first to the permanent shelter, families who are staying in the school-evacuation centers will then occupy the tents. She also added that the beneficiaries who will move to the tents first will be done through raffle-draw so that it will be “fair and square” to every internally displaced family.
As of January 28, 2012 there are now 501 families in West City Central School and 255 families in City Central School.
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World Food Programme Trains Social Welfare Offices on Warehouse ManagementFriday, 03 February 2012 11:32 | | |
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) recently sponsored training on Warehouse Management last January 26-28, 2012 at Cagayan de Oro City, one of the two major cities wrought by Tropical Storm Sendong. Participants were staff from social welfare institutions, like the Department of Social Welfare and Development, local government units of Isabela, Sorsogon and Legaspi City. The training, which was facilitated by Myron D. Kamensa of the World Food Programme, focused on the proper stacking of goods and computation of the area and capacity of the warehouse. Participants were also made to assess the World Food Programme warehouse in National Food Authority in Patag and Camp Evangelista, Cagayan de Oro City and accounted the number of goods inside the warehouse. Moreover, the staff were also trained on how to assemble a WFP Tent Warehouse. Due to the numerous receipt of relief goods coming in Cagayan de Oro City and Iligan City, the training was considered necessary for the participants to know the techniques in thoroughly accommodating, managing and distributing all the donations smoothly and faster. Written by Manuel M. Borres, Chief of the Management Division, DSWD-X
THERE IS HOPE AMID DISASTERWednesday, 18 January 2012 15:39 | | |
The vestiges of TS Sendong were not a picture of devastation but a picture of hope. Through the eyes of Magdalena Diagas, 52 years old, of Isla de Oro,losing her 74-year-old mother at the height of the typhoon did not stop her from keeping hope.
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- DSWD FAST-TRACKS THE VALIDATION OF SHELTER BENEFICIARIES INSIDE AND OUTSIDE EVACUATION CENTERS
- Vice President Binay with DSWD,DILG, DPWH Secretaries hold a Consultation Dialogue on Shelter Assistance for ‘Sendong’ Victims
- DSWD Trains LGU Social Workers on Psychosocial Interventions
- Shelter Cluster Meets to Discuss Action Plan for Relocation
