Social Welfare Administration

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                    [Title] => A horrible South African alert
                    [Summary] => President Ramon Magsaysay organized the Social Welfare Administration. I was then six or seven years old when my mother, Veronica, was recruited to join a training, in Manila, then very far away from our family in Bohol. 
                    [DatePublished] => 2022-08-25 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Aven Piramide
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                    [Title] => The calamities of 1951 and the President's action
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President Elpidio Quirino was challenged by great natural calamities during his administration.

                    [DatePublished] => 2015-01-05 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Clarence Paul Oaminal
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                    [Title] => A time I was "tatay" and not "lolo"
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My mother, may her soul rest in peace, had the privilege of being chosen as one of the country's pioneer social workers.

                    [DatePublished] => 2014-12-14 00:00:00
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                    [Title] => Calling the police, DSWD and Cebu Skin Clinic
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In college, several decades ago, I had a friend who went by the name Mr. Cabrera. He was older than me but our huge age gap notwithstanding, we struck a great camaraderie of the uncommon kind.

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                    [Title] => The "Pantawid"  Fund must be used differently
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My mother Veronica, may her soul rest in peace, was one of the pioneer social workers of the country.
                    [DatePublished] => 2011-07-28 00:00:00
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                    [Title] => Over 500,000 people displace by floods in southern Philippines
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The number of people displaced by floods in the region ballooned to half  million as rains continue to pour, local officials said today.
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                    [Title] => It’s homecoming of sorts for newly sworn DSWD secretary
                    [Summary] => It was a homecoming of sorts for the new social welfare chief, who got her first job at age 19 in the same department then known as the Social Welfare Administration. 


Dulce Saguisag, wife of human rights lawyer and former senator Rene Saguisag, was sworn in by President Estrada yesterday as the new secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to replace Vice President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.


Saguisag, was appointed Friday night, a few hours after the Vice President resigned from her Cabinet post over the alleged jueteng payoffs.


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A horrible South African alert

By Aven Piramide | August 25, 2022 - 12:00am

President Ramon Magsaysay organized the Social Welfare Administration. I was then six or seven years old when my mother, Veronica, was recruited to join a training, in Manila, then very far away from our family in...

Freeman Opinion

The calamities of 1951 and the President's action

By Clarence Paul Oaminal | January 5, 2015 - 12:00am

President Elpidio Quirino was challenged by great natural calamities during his administration.

Freeman Opinion

A time I was "tatay" and not "lolo"

By Aven Piramide | December 14, 2014 - 12:00am

My mother, may her soul rest in peace, had the privilege of being chosen as one of the country's pioneer social workers.

Freeman Opinion

Calling the police, DSWD and Cebu Skin Clinic

By Aven Piramide | April 11, 2013 - 12:00am

In college, several decades ago, I had a friend who went by the name Mr. Cabrera. He was older than me but our huge age gap notwithstanding, we struck a great camaraderie of the uncommon kind.

Freeman Opinion

The "Pantawid" Fund must be used differently

By Aven Piramide | July 28, 2011 - 12:00am

My mother Veronica, may her soul rest in peace, was one of the pioneer social workers of the country.

Freeman Opinion

Over 500,000 people displace by floods in southern Philippines

June 15, 2011 - 9:35pm

The number of people displaced by floods in the region ballooned to half million as rains continue to pour, local officials said today.

It’s homecoming of sorts for newly sworn DSWD secretary

October 17, 2000 - 12:00am

It was a homecoming of sorts for the new social welfare chief, who got her first job at age 19 in the same department then known as the Social Welfare Administration. Dulce Saguisag, wife of human rights lawyer...

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