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The implementing rules and regulations for the Ayuda para sa Kapos ang Kita Program are out, although distribution of the aid has not yet started, according to the agency in charge of AKAP, the Department of Social Welfare and Development. The DSWD has been allocated P26.7 billion under the national budget this year to implement AKAP, whose intended beneficiaries are low-income minimum wage earners who have been severely affected by rising inflation.
MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. acknowledged the challenge of appointing a new secretary for the Department of Education (DepEd), stressing the need for a thorough and careful selection process.
MANILA, Philippines — To raise literacy among Cebuano students, the Cebu City Government will start a tutorial program dubbed as “Tara, Basa” next month.
THE Marcos administration is asking Congress to amend the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) Act to include a provision that would allow an inflation-based “automatic indexing” or upgrading of the cash grant given to beneficiaries.
OFFICIALS of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) finally sat down yesterday with representatives of META Philippines, mother company of the social media platform Facebook, in a bid to set up a mechanism to report and shut down accounts engaged in the online selling of babies and human trafficking.
Camarines Sur – In the whole-of-government efforts to improve the lives of farmers and fisherfolks, a total of 1,965 Bicolano agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) received their land titles directly from President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. and Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Secretary Conrado M. Estrella III on June 7, 2024, at Fuerte Sports Complex, Pili, Camarines Sur.
THE Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is set to deliver more food packs and non-food relief items in areas that are expected to be hit by typhoons and provinces which are anticipated to be heavily affected by the La Niña phenomenon.
MANILA, Philippines — Social media platform Facebook (FB) has shut down 12 accounts found involved in peddling babies in the guise of adoption, Social Welfare Secretary Rex Gatchalian said yesterday.
BY JOCELYN MONTEMAYOR TEN victims of human trafficking in Laguna, including