DSWD Secretary Rex Gatchalian and DHSUD Secretary Jose Acuzar met on Thursday to debate the supply of non permanent shelters for the homeless or households and people in avenue conditions.
Gatchalian and Acuzar met on the DHSUD Central Office to debate the kind of housing models that the DHSUD will present whereas DSWD social employees course of the return to the provinces of the involved people and households.
“The shelter assistance is intended for individuals under the Oplan Pag-Abot program, specifically those who do not have a place to stay in their respective provinces after having been shunned by their families,” Gatchalian mentioned.
The secretaries of the Department of Social Welfare and Development and the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development are slated to signal a memorandum of understanding to formalize a partnership between the 2 companies, the DSWD mentioned.
The DSWD’s Oplan Pag-Abot goals to achieve folks residing and staying on the streets and supply them with the required and applicable interventions to deal with their instant and long-term wants.
As of August, some 38 households composed of 113 minors and 111 adults or a complete of 224 people have been reached by the DSWD beneath this system. —Jiselle Casucian/NB, GMA Integrated News
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