Baguio City, Benguet –A total of three thousand six hundred thirty eight (3,638) toys that will be distributed to 3-6 year old Pantawid children beneficiaries region wide have been turned over to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) - Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) on 14 January 2016. “We... Read More

The City Government of Baguio received the recognition and Php 50,000 cash prize from DSWD Executive Committee headed by Secretary Corazon "Dinky" Soliman for winning the Gawad Listahanan City Government Category. DSWD confers awards to Local Government Units for providing services and assistance to the Listahanan-identified... Read More

Cordillera Administrative Region- As of 12 January 2016, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) here has accounted Php 2,649,866.90 worth of assistance provided to the families of Cordilleran Special Action Force (SAF) members involved in the Mamasapano incident in January 2015. DSWD-CAR Regional Director Janet P. Armas said... Read More

Home to Whang-od, a famed traditional tattooist and Macli’ing Dulag, a renowned tribal hero, Tinglayan in Kalinga Province can be considered as a seat of cultural heritage. Like most indigenous communities, bayanihan is among the cultural practices in this community. For Tinglayan, they call it ab-abuyog. This was a practice... Read More

Malabbaga is one of the barangays in the municipality of La Paz. It is home to 312 households whose main livelihood is rice farming and trading, and animal husbandry. It hosts an elementary school and a day care center with total enrollees of 240. Time and again, the community suffered... Read More

Cordillera Administrative Region- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) through the Social Pension Program for Indigent Senior Citizens will now be serving all indigent senior citizens in the region due to the expansion of the said program. “The region will be receiving around 34,000 additional slots for the... Read More