{"id":161015,"date":"2018-04-21T22:49:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T02:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=161015"},"modified":"2018-04-21T22:49:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T02:49:17","slug":"dswd-assures-aids-to-residents-affected-by-boracay-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/21\/dswd-assures-aids-to-residents-affected-by-boracay-closure\/","title":{"rendered":"DSWD assures aids to residents affected by Boracay closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_153992\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-153992\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Boracay-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-153992\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Boracay-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Saturday assured assistance to individuals, who will be heavily affected by the closure of Boracay.(Shutterstock)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Boracay-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Boracay-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Boracay-1-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-153992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Saturday assured assistance to individuals, who will be heavily affected by the closure of Boracay. (Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>&#8212; The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Saturday assured assistance to individuals, who will be heavily affected by the closure of Boracay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As long as we can, we will provide the assistance they need,&#8221; said DSWD Officer-in-charge Emmanuel Leyco in an interview with the Philippine News Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Leyco said the DSWD is committed to provide assistance to those who would be affected to help them recover.<\/p>\n<p>He said that DSWD programs such as Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situations (AICS) would be among the agency&#8217;s tool to help the affected residents, especially those belonging to the informal sector.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Aside from AICS, we also have other programs such as Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) and Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) there to help them,&#8221; the DSWD official said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the agency would preposition relief items in strategic locations in Aklan, which can be augmented to affected local government units.<\/p>\n<p>The agency will focus on the assistance to help residents have sources of income, he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will provide some capital assistance that they can use for the livelihood that they will engage in, (so that) they will be able to cope to meet their daily needs, &#8221; Leyco said.<\/p>\n<p>DSWD has opened offices in Barangay Manok-manok and in Malay in mainland Boracay to heed and address the immediate concerns of the residents.<\/p>\n<p>He also said the agency is ready to use its disaster calamity funds when needed to help residents.<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Saturday assured assistance to individuals, who will be heavily affected &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":153992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[49314,13363],"class_list":["post-161015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-boracay-closure","tag-department-of-social-welfare-and-development","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}