The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is happy with the results of the Social Weather Stations’ fourth quarter of 2024 survey, showing
The Department of Social Welfare and Development is happy with the results of the Social Weather Stations’ fourth quarter of 2024 survey, showing 59 percent of adult Filipinos are satisfied with the general performance of the administration of President Marcos.
Based on the SWS report, helping victims of disasters got +65 in December 2024 ; improving the quality of children’s education got +60 in December 2024 , and helping the poor got +57 in December 2024 . “We also have a Disaster Response Command Center, Mobile Command Centers and mobile kitchens — all part of the innovations of the DSWD, in collaboration with other government agencies, to improve our disaster response,” Duma said.
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