Answered Prayer
Wednesday, 09 May 2012 08:22 | 
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God makes life so good that even if we don’t exactly get what we want, He certainly gives what is best for us.
Femie Fernandez, 31, of Barangay Sto. Rosario, Baguio City has been faced with life’s difficulties over the years.
Her family lives in a cramped lodging house where she has to deal with different people for most of the time. Their so-called “home” is certainly an uncomfortable place to live for the whole family but because of poverty, they have to make do living in the crowded dwelling.
Femie is a plain house wife, a role known to her four children. Her live-in partner, Abelardo, 38, is a laborer in one of the bus companies in the city. Abelardo earns less than 100 pesos a day, but when luck comes his way, he can earn as much as 200 pesos.
Tinoc community conquers illiteracy with CDDWednesday, 25 April 2012 08:51 | | |
“Conquering mountains” is not even an unfamiliar term for the children of Eheb, one of the villages of Tinoc, a fifth class municipality southwest of the province of Ifugao. For the 5th and 6th grade children in this village, going to school meant literally crossing mountains to attend their classes in the neighboring village of Tukucan. The hours of trek amid dirt roads, mountain paths, and pine forests become their first lesson before even getting to school. They learn the hard work necessary to gain knowledge but at the same time putting themselves in danger. “The drop-out rate was high because the children had to travel far just to attend school in Tukucan,” said town vice-mayor Agustin Calay-en.
DSWD-CAR earmarks PhP 46.4 million for core shelter projectsThursday, 12 April 2012 15:12 | | |
The Department of Social Welfare and Development through its Field Office in the Cordillera Administrative Region has earmarked a total of PhP 46.4 million for the construction of some 801 core shelter units for victims of recent typhoons. The on-going shelter units under the DSWD’s Core Shelter Assistance Program (CSAP) are intended for victims of typhoons Emong, Juan, and Pepeng. Data from the Protective Services Unit of the DSWD-Cordillera revealed 232 units have already been completed and most units have already been handed over to beneficiaries. Meanwhile, 266 units are under construction and 303 units are to be constructed.
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DSWD needs 4,082 youth recruits for gov't internship programWednesday, 18 April 2012 13:55 | | |
BAGUIO CITY – The Cordillera field office of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) announced it needs some 4,082 youth recruits to be part of the expanded Government Internship Program (GIP) in the region.The GIP, which is one of the components of the government’s Kabataan 2000 initiative that started in 1993, aims to initiate the youth to public service and extend possible financial assistance for the next school year. DSWD regional director Leonardo Reynoso said the GIP will allow out-of-school youth, students not enrolled for the summer term and even unemployed vocational or college graduates, aged 18-30, to augment their family income this summer and develop their skills in preparation for future employment.
Learning never stops for Pantawid Pamilya granteesThursday, 12 April 2012 14:30 | | |
SANTO ROSARIO, Baguio City – It is Saturday morning – a perfect day for fun and for housework. But one of the classrooms of Roxas Elementary School here remains jam-packed with smiling people who are so keen to learn.Today, parents come together to become ‘school children’ once again through the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program. It has been four years since Erlinda Cuizon, 66, and Margarita Batara, 48, started attending the monthly Family Development Session (FDS), one of the conditions of the conditional cash transfer program. As other parents enter the room, greeting each other with familiar smiles, chattering and chuckling over funny antics, Erlinda and Maragarita share the same delight of having the opportunity to continue learning.
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