Increase budget for DSWD protective services – De Lima

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By Prince Golez, Manila Reporter
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MANILA – Newbie Sen. Leila de Lima has sought to increase the 2017 budget of the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Protective Services Program.
The Protective Services Program is designed to provide assistance to individuals and families affected by unexpected crisis and calamities.
It comprises the following activities:
Assistance to communities during natural and man-made disasters
Alternative family care program which facilitates the review and processing of documents of children for adoption; and
International social welfare service for Filipino nationals which helps overseas Filipino workers and migrant Filipinos in crisis.
For 2017, the DSWD has proposed an allocation of P3.6 billion, a decrease by P3.1 billion from this year’s budget, for the Program. The department received a budget of P5.2 billion for its 2015 implementation.
“Kailangan lang po nating linawin kung anong sitwasyon at sino ang mga bibigyan ng tulong. Baka kulangin ang budget, baka pwede pang madagdagan ang pondo para maraming matulungan,” de Lima said during the deliberations of the proposed P127.8-billion budget of the DSWD.
Sen. Loren Legarda, chairperson of the Senate Committee on Finance, said that the program includes the provision of medical, burial, educational, transportation, food and non-food assistance to individuals and families in need.
1,279,167 Filipinos are expected to benefit from the program’s P3.567-billion budget, said Legarda, sponsor of the 2017 P3.35-trillion national budget.
The lady senator also asked the DSWD to set up a protective services desk for the Senate at the National Capital Region and Central offices, which Sec. Judy Taguiwalo immediately agreed to./PN

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