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Panayam kay DSWD Usec. Edu Punay

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00:00 Good afternoon, Edu. Before we continue with our news, you're the one I will interview first.
00:07 Let's talk about one of your important projects in DSWD.
00:14 What is this OPLAN? Do you have an update on this, Edu?
00:18 Yes, good afternoon. He's a partner and you're right, this is one of the new programs of the administration,
00:25 especially in DSWD under the leadership of Secretary Rex Gatchalian.
00:29 This OPLAN is our new program that we are doing to help our fellow citizens living on the streets,
00:38 our homeless fellow citizens, those who are living in the streets of Metro Manila.
00:44 We call them families and individuals in street situations.
00:49 This program is a rights-based approach with the administration
00:53 to help and provide legal interventions to our fellow citizens.
00:59 This has been running for the past six months and we have already profiled 1,136 individuals in street situations.
01:09 We have also already removed from the streets 626 individuals
01:15 who we helped provide financial, medical, and transportation assistance to their homes in their provinces.
01:26 This is our Under the Hour Balik-Provincia Program.
01:29 We are able to provide a lot of interventions to our fellow citizens living on our streets in NCR.
01:35 Where were they brought to, or where did they go home?
01:41 What assistance did DSWD provide to the provinces to ensure that they will not go back?
01:47 You know, during Christmas, there are a lot of people because it is scheduled.
01:51 For them, the demand for Christmas is high.
01:56 Yes, we are actually bracing for that.
01:58 I asked my partner, this is a very busy month.
02:01 There are a lot of our fellow citizens who are missing on our streets.
02:07 Those who were sent home to the provinces, all over the country,
02:11 there are Loson, Visayas, and Mindanao.
02:13 The interventions that we are providing, our Balik-Provincia Program that we mentioned earlier,
02:19 they are given a massage to send them home to their provinces.
02:22 They are being capacitated to start their lives there again.
02:27 They are given a deposit, with you, up to Php 50,000.
02:32 That deposit is Php 50,000 cash, and we are endorsing it to local government units
02:38 to train them on how to work and start a business.
02:44 And how to monitor them.
02:47 We are also providing them assistance in food, medical,
02:51 under our Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situations Program,
02:55 and also in our Sustainable Livelihood Program.
02:58 So this is a holistic approach to help our fellow citizens
03:02 and help them get out of the streets.
03:04 Because this is dangerous, especially in the youth, PWD, and senior citizens.
03:12 I have a personal question for you, Usec.
03:16 What should we do when you are on the street and someone knocks on your car door?
03:23 Sometimes, I have children, and you don't know,
03:28 why didn't you give them a child?
03:30 What should mothers do when it comes to this?
03:36 Yes, very good point.
03:38 Actually, we should remind our fellow citizens that we have an anti-mendicancy law.
03:43 It is prohibited for mothers and mothers-in-law to give menses on the street.
03:50 We have a law that we are implementing.
03:54 In that case, we should report it to the DSWD.
04:00 We have a program to help our fellow citizens and mothers-in-law.
04:05 If you really can't do it, our advice is to give them food and not money.
04:11 The food is debatable, right?
04:15 Is it included in the anti-mendicancy law?
04:18 No, it's just money.
04:20 But it's good to know where we can call and where we can report.
04:27 It's active. Just check it.
04:28 We have a DSWD page on Facebook, Twitter, and our social media accounts.
04:36 Just reach out to us.
04:37 You can send us your reports.
04:39 You can see it on the street, you can take a picture,
04:42 send it to us on the location you saw it, and our team will go there.
04:46 Actually, Secrex is a big thing for her because she has a program like this when she was a mayor.
04:51 It's just a scale-up in the NCR.
04:53 We hired a team of social workers.
04:56 She goes around the entire Metro Manila every day with her to help our fellow citizens.
05:02 Your project is good, Eusebio.
05:05 Especially the one that will give them sustainable livelihood.
05:09 Because that's what we want.
05:11 To give them dignity, not to let them be part of our culture that is being neglected.
05:17 Because it's for them and their children that they see.
05:21 So that they grow up to have ambitions, right?
05:24 And to work and help themselves.
05:26 So thank you for your update, Eusebio.
05:29 We have a lot of projects to look forward to for the DSWD because my partner is very hardworking.
05:35 Yes.
05:36 So thank you, Eusebio.

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