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P2.2M used in Q1 ’09 for deportees’ reintegration »
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines/ Dominic I. Sanchez–Php2,236,752.74 was spent for the repatriation and reintegration of Filipino deportees from Malaysia by the Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office IX, the Local Government Units and various Government and Non-Government Organizations for the first quarter of 2009, bared a DSWD report. According to the report, majority of [...]
Despite crisis, hundreds still get jobs under DSWD’s program »
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines/ Dominic Sanchez–In the face of the global economic crisis, still, hundreds of persons from all across Region IX were able to find jobs in the government for the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR), a program for identifying poor households in the country under the Department of Social Welfare and [...]
3,200 students to undergo summer job »
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines /Roland Ramos–Around 3,200 deserving students coming from the indigent families in the city will undergo through the yearly summer job program, a city official declared Monday. The summer job program will start within the month giving job opportunities to college students who qualified under the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) [...]
Curuan clash victims get cash aid from city gov’t »
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines/ Claudine Uniana–Mayor Celso Lobregat yesterday morning distributed cash assistance to families affected by the clash between government troops and lawless elements in Sitio 105 in Curuan a month ago. Lobregat said the cash aid would help alleviate the plight of the victims especially in the rehabilitation of their houses gutted down during [...]
PWDs brace to face a new world »
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines/ Dominic I. Sanchez–It was indeed a sight to behold. Fifty-seven (57) men and women, all clad in sky blue togas, proudly said to the world that they did it. It would have been a common sight, were these people ordinary students of universities and colleges where education is all but free. It [...]
