DSWD sends 20,000 food packs for Mt. Kanlaon eruption victims

Mary Rose Sagarino 12/11/2024

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines – A total of 20,000 food packs have been sent by the Visayas Disaster Response Center (VDRC) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to its warehouses in Negros Island for distribution…

DSWD taps Cebu NGOs to help in disaster preparedness

Futch Anthony Inso 09/24/2023

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), through its Visayas Disaster Resource Center (VDRC), entered into a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with five non-government organizations that will provide volunteers to help in the…

Cotabato town placed under state of calamity due to flooding

Williamor A. Magbanua 06/27/2023

KIDAPAWAN CITY — The local government has placed Kabacan town in Cotabato province under a state of calamity as 10 of its 24 villages were flooded after the Kabacan river swelled due to torrential rains last week. Vice…

DSWD braces for Typhoon Mawar; extra food packs ready

Sofia Abrogar 05/23/2023

MANILA, Philippines — A total of 689,885 family food packages have been pre-positioned “nationwide” by the state social welfare bureau in preparation for possible supertyphoon Mawar. The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) also started the…

#PaengPH displaces 70 individuals in Mandaue

Mary Rose Sagarino 10/26/2022

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — At least 14 families or 70 individuals were evacuated in Mandaue City due to flooding caused by tropical depression #PaengPH on Wednesday, October 26, 2022. Based on the report from the City Disaster…

65 retrench workers from MEPZ receive cash aid, food packs from DSWD-7

Futch Anthony Inso 10/04/2022

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu – A total of 65 of the around 4, 000 displaced workers at the Mactan Export Processing Zone (MEPZ) in Lapu-Lapu City received financial assistance and family food packs (FFPs) on Monday afternoon, Oct.…

NBI-7 starts probe on Cebu City Hall’s contract with ‘unqualified caterer’

Dyrecka Letigio 09/11/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The National Bureau of Investigation in Central Visayas (NBI-7) has begun its probe on the complaints of radio commentator, Arturo Barrit, over what he claimed as the anomalous awarding of a P19.5 million…

For the fourth time, Lapu dads defer approval of SB no. 3

Futch Anthony Inso 09/09/2021

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — The supplemental budget (SB) no. 3 has been deferred for the fourth time by the Lapu-Lapu City Council after it failed to pass the special session on Wednesday, September 8, 2021. Although the…

Lapu-Lapu fire victims to receive financial assistance from the city

Futch Anthony Inso 08/24/2021

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines- The Lapu-Lapu City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWDO) assured fire victims from sitio Cadurong Suba Masulog in Barangay Basak, that they will receive financial assistance from the city. Based on the records of…

Samboan residents compliant with hard lockdown policies – police

Mae Fhel Gom-os 07/24/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Residents of the southwestern Cebu town of Samboan were observed to be compliant with the hard lockdown policies being implemented there, the town’s police said. In an effort to contain the spread of…

De-Labor-y Day for delivery riders in Cebu

Immae Lachica 05/02/2021

  CEBU CITY, Philippines— As the famous line goes, not all heroes wear capes, a group of people in Cebu recognized our modern-day heroes in celebration of Labor Day. They may not have capes on their back,…

Cebu City Council thumbs down P40M for food packs of frontliners

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/05/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Council has thumbed down a P40 million budget request that should have been allocated to buy food packs for the city’s frontliners including police and health staff in quarantine centers.…

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