EXTREME poverty created by the pandemic economic crisis has pushed millions of poorest Filipinos down further. And most of them are still not able to recover from the depths.
I don’t know how would the Philippine Statistics Authority and the National Economic Development Authority survey and measure the kind of poverty sweeping the poor? Can they quantify fierce poverty?
Extreme poverty indeed was the driving force behind the deluge of poor Filipinos who stormed the DSWD educational cash assistance payout seeking for whatever assistance they can get.
This was the message that sent the DSWD to rethink and recalibrate the way it conduct its business of addressing the needs of the poorest of the poor.
The same message also reverberate to other government agencies, non-government organizations, humanitarian and civil society groups, and corporate social responsibility initiatives who have been helping the poor and the marginalized Filipinos.
At least from the point of view of the DSWD, I must say it is no longer business as usual.
Changes in the way it sees and execute its anti-poverty programs and meets its targets are on and there will be shifts in the DSWD paradigms. Pwamis!
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