Tacloban City-The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Region 8 is implementing an on Air Family Development Session (FDS) for the Pantawid beneficiaries or 4Ps and today National Nutrition Council 8 Regional Nutrition Program Coordinator Dr. Catalino P. Dotollo, Jr was the first guest.

RNPC Dotollo talked about the topic on “Wastong Nutrisyon sa Panahon ng Pandemya and Nutrition Month Campaign: Malnutrisyon Patuloy Na Labanan First 1000 days Tutukan.”

The Family Development Session intends to strengthen the capacities of Pantawid families, particularly the parents/grantees, to become more responsive to the health and education needs of the family and their children.

The FDS is a monthly parent group activity attended by the main grantee/s of the household, usually mothers, to enhance their parenting capabilities and encourage them to be more active citizen of the society. It serves as psychosocial and education intervention of the Pantawid Pamilya Program and complementary activity provided for the household grantees and household heads to ensure that children beneficiaries are able to comply with the conditionalities, and parents are able to provide necessary support to them for health and education needs.

Attendance to the FDS is also one of the conditionalities of the program and implemented and monitored by the City/Municipal Links. It also serves as venue where other concerns of the beneficiaries and the program can be addressed such as monitoring of compliance of household beneficiaries, updating of household data and facilitating appropriate response to grievances and complaints.

The FDS on air was temporarily stopped its airing due to the pandemic and budgetary constraints. Today, the FDS on Air is back on air in close collaboration with Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) Tacloban. #CPDotollo