{"id":64252,"date":"2015-11-05T03:43:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T09:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=64252"},"modified":"2015-11-05T03:43:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T09:43:43","slug":"soliman-donations-from-foreign-government-and-private-sectors-went-to-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/11\/05\/soliman-donations-from-foreign-government-and-private-sectors-went-to-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Soliman: Donations from foreign government and private sectors went to UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14621\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14621\" style=\"width: 471px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Dinky-Soliman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-14621\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Dinky-Soliman-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"DSWD Sec. Corazon 'Dinky' Soliman. Photo courtesy of UNTV\" width=\"471\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Dinky-Soliman-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Dinky-Soliman.jpg 442w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14621\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DSWD Sec. Corazon &#8216;Dinky&#8217; Soliman. Photo courtesy of UNTV<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">MANILA, PHILIPPINES &#8211; Big chunk of donations from foreign government and private sectors to relief and rehabilitation victims of Super Typhoon Yolanda went to UN agencies and not to government, Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman clarified yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In an update on the Yolanda recovery and Soliman told that only a fraction of the donations went to government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cClose to 95 percent were directly handed over to UN agencies such as the World Food Program, UNICEF (United Nations Children\u2019s Fund) and Habitat (for Humanity),\u201d Soliman said to the reporters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to the Department of Social Welfare and Development, the government only received P17 billion &#8211; P1.2 billion in cash and P1.269 billion in kind &#8211; of the P73 billion in aid pledges from the international community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The remaining P14 billion, according to Soliman, went to non-government organizations and multilateral organizations, among others. Meanwhile, she also assured that cash donations were used as intended.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>DSWD open to scrutiny<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Soliman said she is open to any scrutiny to DSWD\u2019s projects and programs such as the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), and the P54-billion National Community Driven Development Program-Kapitbisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services, by opposition candidates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe have nothing to hide and we can answer their questions,\u201d told Soliman in an interview with The Philippine Star.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Soliman also added the Commission on Audit is reviewing all the programs and projects of DSWD and adheres to their recommendations.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, PHILIPPINES &#8211; Big chunk of donations from foreign government and private sectors to relief and rehabilitation victims of Super &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":14621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-64252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-rewrite","mauthors-mavelle-p-durian","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64252","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}