In the province of Kalinga, body art and tattoo has been linked to their culture and history. For women, their tattoos symbolize beauty, maturity and fertility. They undergo a painful process of ink-tapping, locally called batok, wherein a thorn of a pomelo or a lemon tree is attached in a bamboo and will be tapped continue reading : Age Marked with Beauty

The Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office Cordillera Administrative Region (DSWD FO CAR) has started to release the 2020 Unconditional Cash Transfer (UCT) grant to 83,596 Social Pension beneficiaries in the region. As of 4 June 2021, a total 836 out of the 1,411 beneficiaries from Baguio, that is the first batch for continue reading : DSWD FO CAR distributes UCT grant to Social Pensioners

Cordillera Administrative Region- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) here has allocated  more than 39 million pesos intended for around 15, 284 qualified beneficiaries of the Risk Resiliency Program- Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation – Disaster Risk Reduction (RRP-CCAM-DRR) Program. The RRP-CCAM-DRR seeks to cultivate awareness and responsibility of its beneficiaries on our continue reading : 15k indigents engaged in Community Based project on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation

Cordillera Administrative Region-Around 33 thousand  family food packs (FFPs) and a standby fund amounting to PhP 3 million is at placed by Department of Social Welfare and Development here for possible resource augmentation and response operation on the impending threat of TS Dante in the region. “Prior to the entry of the weather disturbance “CHOI-WAN” continue reading : DSWD Field Office Cordillera readies for TS Dante

Cordillera Administrative Region- The Department of Social Welfare and Development through its National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) or Listahanan has completed its receiving and resolving of grievances and continues its reassessment activities as part of the third phase of the project cycle or the Validation and Finalization Phase. This phase aims to continue reading : DSWD-CAR’s Listahanan third phase nears completion

Some may have perceived that Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) serve as a dole-out for the poor, but for the Medalla family, the program has given them ‘medals’ and helped them improve their well-being. After six years of being a household beneficiary, the Medalla family from continue reading : Medal of Change