The media representatives photo ops with Mabini Mayor Carlitos Reyes, Mabini Local Social Welfare Office staff and DSWD regional staff. (DSWD photo) |
DSWD Information Officer II
Amplifying the voices of DSWD-assisted poor families and keeping strong
ties with the tri-media were the main focus
duirng the Department of Social Work and Development Field Office 1’s Convergence Community Exposure held in Mabini
and Bolinao, Pangasinan recently.
The
Convergence Media Community Exposure was attended by representatives from
Philippine Daily Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, Phil. Star, DZNL-Aksyon Radyo,
DZWN-Bombo Radyo, DZAG- Radyo ng Bayan, DWIZ, The Weekly Ilocandia Inquirer and
PIA-Dagupan City.
In a
short tete-a-tete with Mabini Mayor Carlitos Reyes, full appreciation on the
Pantawid Pamilya Program was heard.
“Since
the Program started in 2008, fewer families are accessing the financial aid
coming from the Local Government Unit,” Reyes said,
Also,
the Municipal Transition Plan as presented by head social worker Teresa Ragudos
revealed the urgent concerns such as barangays having no electricity and are
still using an open-pit for human waste disposal.
Aside
from continuation of scholarship programs, livelihood projects, and alternative
learning system as counterpart of the local government unit to sustain
development among the poor families, the above concerns will also be given
priority with the help of other agencies and civil society organizations
(CSOs).
In
Bolinao, Pangasinan, Mayor Arnold Celeste said he is looking forward for the
Department of Labor and Employment’s provision of drying machine to
DSWD-assisted group of danggit
producers. Further, Celeste talked about the rollback scheme of the Sustainable
Livelihood Program of DSWD which accordingly is being augmented by the LGU if
the Pantawid beneficiaries have proven their consistency in paying their dues.
The
documentation of convergence stories, which feature the assistance of Pantawid
Pamilya Program, Sustainable Livelihood Program, LGU and CSOs interventions in
improving the lives of poor families in Mabini and Bolinao will be compiled in
the second volume of Social Hits of DSWD Field Office1.
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