QUEZON CITY – The Golden Reception and Action Center for the Elderly and other Special Cases (GRACES), a residential care facility managed by DSWD-NCR, held activities in observance of the Holy Week on April 5 to 11, 2020. Holy Week in the Philippines is a significant religious observance for the country’s Catholic majority. Amid the coronavirus disease continue reading : Semana Santa 2020 at GRACES

MANDALUYONG CITY – Amid the Enhanced Community Quarantine being implemented in Luzon, DSWD-NCR’s Sanctuary Center still found ways to observe the Lenten season on April 5 to April 8, 2020. The celebration of Holy Week is an unusual one this year. Families can only pray inside their own houses and attend the mass through television continue reading : Sanctuary Center observes Lenten Season 2020

QUEZON CITY – DSWD-NCR’s Reception and Study Center for Children (RSCC) conducted the Stations of the Cross and Passion of Christ, commonly known as Pabasa, as part of the celebration of the Lenten season on April 6-7, 2020. Pabasa, a tradition that the Filipinos adapted from the Spanish regime, is being done yearly by RSCC continue reading : RSCC Conducts Pabasa 2020

Ang pagiging bahagi ng Department of Social Welfare and Development o ahensya na isa sa maituturing na “frontline service provider” ay isang malaking karangalan ngunit ito ay mayroong kaakibat na malaking responsibilidad.   Malaki ang pasasalamat ng DSWD NCR sa DSWD NCR Rider’s Group o ang volunteer arm ng ahensya sa pagbibigay ng mas pinabilis na continue reading : Serbisyong May Malasakit

Today, the Department of Social Welfare and Development National Capital Region (DSWD NCR) led by Regional Director Vicente Gregorio B. Tomas has started the initial distribution of the relief goods to the Local Government Units (LGUs) in the National Capital Region in compliance with the directive of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte. The DSWD NCR together continue reading : DSWD NCR starts the Relief Distribution to LGUs

The Department of Social Welfare and Development convened the 17 National Capital Region’s City Social Welfare and Development Offices for a meeting to discuss protocols on proper coordination on the implementation of the disaster response operation in light of the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon, headed by Secretary Rolando Joselito D. Bautista and Regional Director continue reading : DSWD NCR lays down Relief Distribution Protocol

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) clarified that beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) will continue to receive their grants and rice subsidy through their cash cards amid enforcement of the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon, emphasizing that only 4Ps activities that require mass gathering are suspended. DSWD also reiterated that continue reading : 4Ps beneficiaries continue to receive grants, rice subsidy during quarantine period

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has issued its own guidelines in support to the directives of President Rodrigo Duterte to further control the spread of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in the country. DSWD Secretary Rolando Joselito D. Bautista signed on March 14 Department Advisory Number 1 titled, “Guidelines for the Prevention, Control, and continue reading : DSWD bares measures to support Pres. Duterte’s directives to stop spread of COVID-19