DSWD PROVIDES TEMPORARY SHELTER TO 62 ILLEGALLY-RECRUITED FISHERMEN
Wednesday, 18 January 2012 09:25 | 
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DSWD records show (PCDP) Center has registered/catered to 80 clients in 7 days
Jan. 18, 2012 -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office IX assisted eighty illegally-recruited victims in just one week after 3 batches of male victims sought shelter at its Processing Center for Displaced Persons (PCDP).
As of press time, sixty-two males mostly from Bohol and Lapu-lapu City are presently housed at PCDP while awaiting case developments after being intercepted by the Port Police last January 11.
Social workers learned that a certain resident from Bonggao personally went to Bohol to fetch the fishermen. They were promised good wages for deep sea fishing with free accommodation and food. Accordingly, the group consists of 3 teams which will be sent out to Languyan, Sitangkai and Bongao. Said employer contracted them for 4 months.
The Zamboanga City Port Police became suspicious of the group after noticing that only one person purchased their tickets and thus invited two from the group in their office for inquiry. DSWD with partner agencies Philippine Center for Transnational Crime (PCTC) and Visayan Forum immediately proceeded to the port to look into the proper interventions.
DSWD FUN WALK AND HATAWMonday, 16 January 2012 09:17 | | |
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DSWD ‘CAMINADA CONTRA POBRESA’ FUN WALK SET TODAYFriday, 13 January 2012 07:56 | | |
“DSWD @ 61: Tuloy-tuloy sa Kaunlaran” January 14, 2012--The Department of Social Welfare and Development Regional Office IX is set to conduct a Family Fun Walk dubbed “Caminada Contra Pobresa” today at 6 am starting from R.T. Lim Blvd. and to finish off at Paseo del Mar. The activity aims to create awareness on the department’s serious efforts against poverty and enjoin the public’s support to the poverty-reduction programs being implemented by the government such as the Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program (4Ps).
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