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P1K per elem. student, P2K per junior HS student, P3K per senior HS student, and P4K per college student to be distributed starting Aug. 20; limit is 3 students per indigent family, says Tulfo (Eagle News) — Social Welfare and Development Secretary Erwin Tulfo announced on Thursday, August 18, the department’s plan to distribute a P500 million budgeted educational assistance program for students who belong to indigent families nationwide. Allocation of funds is limited to […]
(Eagle News) — The United States government said it is sending P10 million ($200,000) in aid to the Philippines to support communities affected by super typhoon Odette (international name Rai), the US embassy said on Wednesday, December 22. The aid will be coursed through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as immediate assistance to areas affected by the super typhoon which had made a record of nine landfalls in the country, from […]
DBM says P22.9-B funding came from various Bureau of Treasury certified sources (Eagle News) – At least 22.9 million individuals affected by the “lockdown” measures under the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) protocol in Metro Manila, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna and Rizal will be given assistance in kind to ease their difficulties at this critical stage of the pandemic. This was after President Rodrigo Duterte signed the Supplemental Amelioration Program (SAP) proposed by the Department of […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte assured Filipinos affected by the typhoon Ulysses that his government is doubling efforts to reach out to them, to help them, and provide them immediate assistance. The 75-year old Philippine leader addressed the nation again on Saturday afternoon, Nov. 14, as reports coming in from Cagayan Valley region, particularly from Cagayan and Isabela provinces, showed just how it had been ravaged by Typhoon Ulysses. Affected residents were in the […]
(Eagle News) — Mahigit 64. 7 milyong piso na halaga ng ayuda ang naipagkakaloob na sa mga biktima ng Bagyong Usman. Ayon sa National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), ang nasabing ayuda ay naibigay sa Mimaropa at sa Regions 5 at 8 ng Office of Civil Defense, Department of Social Welfare and Development, local government units at non-government organizations. Sa pinakahuling tala ng ahensya, isandaang at dalawampu’t anim (126) na katao ang nasawi […]
(Eagle News) — Umaabot lamang sa 40 percent ng beneficiaries ng pantawid pasada program ng pamahalaan ang nabigyan ng P5,000 fuel subsidy kaugnay sa epekto ng Tax Reform for Acceleration for Inclusion (TRAIN) law. Ayon kay Finance Usec. Karl Kendrick Chua, sa kanilang tala noong Oktubre 22 ay umaabot lamang sa 56,154 jeepney franchise holders mula sa kabuuang 142,000 ang nakinabang sa nasabing programa. Ipinaliwanag ng opisyal na documentation ang siyang pangunahing dahilan kung bakit […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Japanese government donated 27 new heavy equipment for the rehabilitation of Marawi City. The turn-over ceremony was attended by Japanese Ambassador Koji Haneda and Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea, representing President Rodrigo Duterte, as well as Department of Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark Villar, who is the vice-chair of “Task Force Marawi”. The donated equipment consisted of seven hydraulic excavators, three bulldozers, three wheel loaders, two motor graders, […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Philippine has formally rejected P380 million or 6.1 million euros worth of aid from the European Union. This was confirmed by European Union Ambassador Franz Jessen who said that the Philippines rejected the EU-Philippine Trade-Related Technical Assistance (TRTA) worth 6.1 million euros when it returned the agreement unsigned. “It was formalized after they returned the financial agreements of the TRTA that should be signed by end of the […]
The United States is weighing additional support to the Philippine military as it fights an Islamist insurgency in the south, a US defense official said Tuesday. Discussions are “pretty advanced” and would see the US provide increased surveillance drone capabilities and training for local forces, the official told AFP on condition on anonymity. “Those (drones) are there for ISR and support,” the official said, using an abbreviation for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance. Philippine President Rodrigo […]
(Eagle News) — More than four million Filipinos were assisted by the government in the last quarter of 2016. The Social Weather Stations survey first published in BusinessWorld on Friday said the 4.8 million Filipinos translate to 46 percent of the population. The survey results were derived from face-to-face interviews with 1500 adults–600 from Balance Luzon, and 300 each from Metro Manila, Visayas and Mindanao. The sampling error margins are pegged at ±3% for national percentages, ±4% for […]
