Usually, the one assigned to handle the VAWC desk is a member of the barangay council, and as such, she receives as regular monthly pay. But those who are not members of the barangay council only get ...

Last week, I was part of a huge gathering of Violence Against Women and Children (VAWC) desk officers in different barangays in Tawi-Tawi, the farthest southern island province of the Philippines ...

Daisy Ramos, the DSWD’s sectoral unit head for the region, said on Monday, November 28, there were likely more VAWC cases than what the police have documented in Northern Mindanao.

Responding to VAWC and OSAEC cases. To combat online child exploitation and ensure the safety and well-being of children in the region, Khristine Kay M. Lazarito-Calingin, the Chief GAD Specialist at ...

Participating agencies included the Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office-10 as the lead agency of the RIACAT-VAWC, the Regional Juvenile Justice and Welfare Committee-10, the ...

Many of the VAWC desk officers have no other source of income. If their husbands are also in the informal services sector (tricycle or jeepney driver or on-call carpenters), they have difficulty ...