IN order to assist homeless families and children, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) announced on Wednesday that it has allotted approximately P807 million.
Homeless people may receive financial and transportation support through DSWD’s Oplan Pag-Abot, according to Sen. Imee Marcos, the agency’s budget sponsor.
“Different local government units are not able to take care of their housing, so there was the Pag-Abot program,” Marcos explained.
The senator claimed that 741 people and 1,380 households were affected by the program in 2024 alone.
“There is also transitory shelter assistance, livelihood, employment, psychosocial. ‘Others don’t want to go home and are nervous or abused. There is a lot that needs to be done with them, the capability building and community assistance,” she stated.
“The DSWD also does not stop [in] monitoring,” she continued, “but that’s what’s really happening so it’s really going back and forth.”
The senator mentioned that the agency had taken over a former Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator center in Pasay and converted it into a children’s shelter.
Last year, the DSWD stated that the initiative is a rights-based strategy with integrated safety nets.