The Municipal Social Welfare
and Development Office (MSWDO) is responsible
for the provision of social welfare services
in the municipality. The Office is manned
by a Social Welfare Officer, Social Welfare
Assistant and a clerk. There are also thirty
(30) Day Care Workers who render day care
services to preschool children aging 3-6 years
old in the 30 day care enters established
in the municipality.
The MSWDO of Bani has organized
and maintained social welfare structures and
people’s organizations. These are the
following: Senior Citizens Associations, Day
Care Parents Organizations, Women’s
Organization or the Kalipunan ng Liping Pilipina,
Pag-asa Youth Association, Home-Based ECCD
Association.
The MSWDO Office interlinks
and coordinates with other entities, offices
and agencies to fully serve and support its
clientele.
All the twenty-seven (27)
barangays are served by the MSWDO with the
following services: Day Care Services, Supplemental
Feeding, Special Social Services, Supplemental
Feeding, Special Social Services for Children
and Youth, Information Dissemination on Disability
Prevention, Self and Social Enhancement Services
for Persons with Disabilities and senior Citizens,
Disaster Relief, Emergency Shelter Assistance,
Aid to Individual in Crisis Situation, Disaster
Management Capability Building, Parent Effectiveness
Service, Pre-Marriage Counseling, Responsible
Parenthood Service, Social Preparation for
People’s Participation, Social Welfare
Structures Development, Community Participation
Skills Development, Maternal and child Care
Skills Development, Self-Employment Assistance.
Social welfare services are not limited to
the low income social groups but also include
other higher income classes who have social
problems and need welfare.
Day Care Services are offered
to all the barangays (27) and 3 sitios of
the municipality. A Senior Citizens Center
is established and located beside the Rural
Health Center in Poblacion.
The largest number of clienteles,
demanding welfare services are those in crisis
situation and disaster or emergency cases
and therefore need immediate relief services.
In year 2002, the MSWDO assisted socially
needy individuals through the following programs.
Family
Life Education and Counseling
- Under this program is the pre-marriage counseling
for future couples, a pre-requisite to the
issuance of a marriage license. Responsible
parenthood is taught to them, enriching the
relationship of the future couple.
Day Care and Supplemental Feeding Assistance
- This is a program whereby needy children
between 3 to 6 years old are cared in Day
Care Centers, providing them with supplemental
feeding and opportunities for physical development,
socialization and custodial care.
Disabled/Elderly
Persons Welfare Services -
This program is intended for those persons
with physical disability like those visually
impaired, orthopedically handicapped, with
cleft palate/harelip, arrested TB, and those
with impaired hearing. Those persons with
mental disability like the mentally retarded
and with social disability and old aged are
also covered by this program.
Self-Employment
Assistance - This service
is a response to poverty alleviation among
family heads through livelihood projects.
Responsible
Parenthood – Under this
program beneficiaries are assisted towards
deciding on family size and practice child
spacing, and or family role, performance and
relationship.
Emergency
Shelter Assistance - This
program refers to the provision of limited
financial and material assistance to help
families to construct/repair their houses,
which are partially destroyed by natural or
man-made disaster.
Parent
Effectiveness Services - This
program is special type of service provided
to parents where they are taught to be more
effective parents to their children.
Practical
Skills Development - This
program is designed for the out-of-school
Youths, unemployed adults and disabled for
them to be motivated and encouraged to participate
in nation building through the conduct of
non-formal education and skills training.
Self
and Social Enhancement Program for Senior
Citizens - RA 7432 provides
for maximum contribution of the senior citizens
to nation building and grant them benefits
and privileges. This was enacted to motivate
and encourage senior citizens aged 60 years
old and over to contribute to nation building
and to mobilize their families in the community
where they live to re-affirm the valued Filipino
tradition of caring the elderlies. A Senior
Citizen Center has been constructed and made
available to cater to the needs of the senior
citizens in the municipality.
Women’s
Welfare - This program is
intended for women particularly those married
wherein maternal and child care skills development
were taught. Several women had completed and
participated in Self-Enhancement Skills Capability
Building and Community Participation Skills
Development sessions.
Aids to Individuals in Crisis Situation -
This program is designed to help individuals/families
who are really in need of assistance whether
financial or social need.
