Valenzuela City Releases Pension Funds for Senior Citizens

The City Government launched the Local Socialized Pension for Indigent Senior Citizens Program which entitles beneficiaries with a quarterly stipend of PhP 1,500 for two years. ...

CSWDO, STI Bring Computer Education At The Grassroots Level

Around 500 Valenzuelanos learned hands on training in digital image manipulation using GIMP on a four-day hands-on training in Barangays Marulas and Veinte Reales courtesy of the City...

City Government of Valenzuela Fast Tracks Aid To Barangay Arkong Bato Fire Victims

Valenzuela City Mayor Sherwin T. Gathalian has extended financial assistance to 17 homes at M. Orocha Street in Barangay Arkong Bato were razed by fire at around 8 o’clock in th...

Valenzuela City Launches Work-to-Study Program For the Youth

In an effort to keep the students in the classrooms and prevent them from dropping out, the City Government, through the City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWDO) and the Pub...

DSWD’s Cash for Work/Training Program Reaches Valenzuelanos

Small scale farmers and fishermen in the city received assistance from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) through the Cash for Training/Cash for Work Program, a s...

Valenzuela City Invigorates Programs for the Elderly

City officials have stepped up programs for the elderly in Valenzuela City by sustaining further its projects designed to address their health and well being needs. ...

Mayor Gatchalian Lauds Valenzuela City Police And Social Workers

In a fitting ceremony, the Valenzuela City Peace and Order Council (POC) headed by Mayor Sherwin T. Gatchalian awarded yesterday Plaques of Commendation and cash incentives of Php 5,0...

Child with Clubfoot Benefits From Valenzuela City's Social Welfare Program
by: Michael King Urieta

Fionalyn Aquino, a child who previously suffered from the medical condition known as “Clubfoot,” paid a courtesy call to Mayor WIN as a gesture of gratitude for the medical assist...

Valenzuela City Holds Forum On Handling Child Abuse Cases
by: Michael King Urieta

To further enhance the enforcement of child protection laws, the City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWDO), in cooperation with the Valenzuela Local Council for the Protectio...

Valenzuela City Hosts Gathering Of NCR Youth
by: Michael King Urieta

The Department of Social Welfare and Development – National Capital Region (DSWD-NCR) has chosen Valenzuela City to host the annual celebration of Pag-asa Youth Association of t...

Valenzuela City Aims for Zero Presence of Street Children
by: Mark Lester Cayabyab

The Valenzuela City Government is bent on keeping its thoroughfares free of street children by strengthening existing city programs, and opening up to other areas of cooperation with ...

Bahay Pag-asa Youth Detention Center To Rise In Valenzuela
by: Lauro Zyan F. Caiña with reports from James L. Habitan

Valenzuela City broke grounds today at R. Jacinto Street, Canumay West to make way for the construction of the PhP 7.6 million detention center for children in conflict with the law (...

Mayor Gatchalian Fast Tracks Aid For Valenzuela City Fire Victims
by: Lauro Zyan F. Caiña with Reports from Evelyn S. Bautista and Wynndee Penolio

Valenzuela City Mayor Sherwin T. Gatchalian personally extended a total of PhP 160,000 financial assistance to some 32 families from Libis St., Barangay Canumay East after a massive f...

Mercury Drug Holds “Operation Bigay Lunas” in Punturin
by: James S. Habitan

As part of its 67thAnniversary Celebration, Mercury Drug Corporation, in cooperation with the Valenzuela City Health Department (CHD), the City Social Welfare and Developme...

Valenzuela City Hardwares Selling Solvent to Minors Closed
by: Liezel N. Fulgencio

The rescue of 12 street-children by the social workers of the City Social Welfare and Development Office ...

Municipality of Taraka Adopts Valenzuela’s Good Governance Practices
by: Liezel N. Felgencio

How revenues can be raised efficiently and how good governance is practiced through financial management ...

Health and Social Welfare, Focus of Valenzuela City Foundation Day Celebration
by: Lauro Zyan Caiña

Amidst heating debate on privatization of public hospitals, the local government of Valenzuela unveiled the new city-funded PhP 120 million three-storey, 50-bed capacity Valenzuela Ci...

Intellectually Disabled Receive Free Eye, Fitness Test
by: Rafael C. Cañete

Around 300 persons with intellectual disabilities (PWIDs) in Valenzuela City received free eyesight screening and physical fitness tests from volunteer clinicians and medical scienc...

‘House Of Hope’ Opens Doors To CICL
by: Rafael C. Cañete

As students return to school this week, children in conflict with the law (CICL) in Valenzuela City themselves turn the page to a better chapter of their lives as the first ci...

4Ps Beneficiaries In Valenzuela City Warned Against Pawning Cash Cards
by: Rafael C. Cañete

The Valenzuela City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWDO) reminded beneficiaries of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) in Valenzuela City to refrain from pawning thei...

Early Evacuation Instilled To Residents of Flood-Prone Areas
by: Rafael C. Cañete

While evacuation during typhoons is just a last resort for many, the City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWDO) is urging residents of flood-prone areas to head to evacuatio...

Forum, fun walk, ‘fameal’ liven Valenzuela Family Week
by: Rafael C. Cañete

A forum, a fun walk, and a ‘fameal’ make up the celebration of the 22nd National Family Week hosted by Valenzuela City, September 25 to Octob...

Hoax text leads dad to lost son
by: Rafael Carpio Canete

Since losing his son last February 12, Crisanto Selarta of Dasmarinas, Cavite had received at least two text messages, their unknown senders claiming to have seen C...

Valenzuela, Lingkod Kapamilya push for vigilance against child abuse
by: Therese Ann Dizon

Valenzuela City is creating a safer environment for children with aid from non-government organization ABS-CBN Lingkod Kapamilya Foundation, Inc. (ALKFI) ...

Abandoned resto druggies’ lair; 8 minors saved at reach-out
by: Jay Exiomo

Eight minors found inhaling rugby and thinner were saved during a reach-out operation in Barangay Marulas on Tuesday, November 25. ...

Vagrant dad, kids start life anew
by: Jay Exiomo

Romeo Fernandez couldn’t help but smile when he looked out the window of his new home in Barangay Malinta one Friday morning. Peering outside, he saw workers f...

Lifetime burial rights, scholarship for Kentex victims, kin
by: John Mark D. Exiomo

Family members and relatives of the victims of the fire that razed ...

Valenzuela ‘adopts’ Lando-hit sister town, to aid 25 more
by: Rafael Carpio Cañete

Valenzuela City on October 24 sent a humanitarian contingent to San Antonio, Nueva Ecija where residents ar...

Valenzuela City hikes cash aid to grieving families
by: Beng Bautista

To ensure a dignified burial to the elderly and to all indigent constituents, the city government of Valenz...

No cash but tools, materials for PWD entreps-to-be
by: Rafael Carpio Cañete

Sixteen persons with disabilities (PWD...

Senior Citizens Feel the Essence of Christmas in Valenzuela City
by: Liezel Fulgencio

For four years now, the senior citizen-residents of Valenzuela City are enjoying the perks of their twilight age during Christmas season as they are chosen by the City Social Welfare an...

Bahay Pag-asa ng Valenzuela Rejoices Anniversary, Accreditation
by: Maria Krizel Hiyas H. Villanueva

“Binigyan kami ng bagong pag-asa [ng Bahay Pag-asa] (A new hope was given to us by Bahay Pag-asa).” This is the realization of Edmond Domagco, 21 years...

People using fake PWD IDs arrested
by: Evelyn S. Bautista

A couple was arrested for using fake Persons with Disabilities (PWD) IDs while respectively claiming financial assistance from the City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWDO), Ju...

Valenzuela City Wins Galing Pook Award For In-City Housing Initiative
by: Therese Ann Dizon

The City Government of Valenzuela received on Thursday, October 12, its third Galing Pook Award for its housing project, the Disipli...

Solo Parents, Never Alone in Valenzuela City
by: Maria Krizel Hiyas H. Villanueva

Gemeline C. Hoceña of Barangay Malinta, a proud mother of two has been single-handedly raising her children since she became a widow in 2002, but she has never felt alone in rais...

NCR LGUs Express Interest in Adopting Valenzuela City’s In-City Housing Project
by: Maria Krizel Hiyas H. Villanueva

Amaze by the initiative of the local government in making the Philippines’ largest in-city housing resettlement, representatives from the local government units (LGUs) of the Nati...

Fake ID maker nabbed in Karuhatan
by: Chatty Anne Decena

In an entrapment operation put in place by the Valenzuela City Philippine National Police (PNP)- Station Investigation Unit (SIU) and the Detective Management Unit (DMU), Aldrin Romero ...

Quake Victims in Mindanao Get PhP 22 Million Aid from Valenzuela City
by: Public Information Office

Valenzuela City Government offials personally brought the Php 22 Million financial assistance from the Quick Response Fund (QRF) of City’s Local Disas...

Valenzuela City Bags Nine Urban Governance Exemplary Awards From DILG
by: Jenny Taborda & William Chua

The City Government of Valenzuela under the leadership of Mayor WES Gatchalian received a total of nine exemplary awards from the Department of Interior and Local Government – Nationa...

Valenzuela City Launches DotBot, A Modern Solution to A Modern Problem
by: William Chua

The City Government of Valenzuela, under the leadership of Mayor WES Gatchalian spearheaded the online launch of DotBot, an innovation project born from the cooperative partnership of t...

Valenzuela City Gives Housing Unit to PWD Family
by: William Chua

As part of the city’s mission to provide the best and inclusive services to all, the City Government of Valenzuela led by Mayor WES Gatchalian, in coordination with the City Socia...

STATEMENT ON LAON HOUSE CLEARING OPERATIONS
by: William Chua

The City Government of Valenzuela, in partnership with the Social Housing and Finance Corporation (SHFC) thr...

Valenzuela City Extends Assistance to Typhoon Egay Affected Areas
by: Jenny Taborda

Valenzuela Cares! ...

Residential Structures Collapse in Barangay Mapulang Lupa, Valenzuela City
by: William Chua

Around 9:00 AM on Sunday, September 3, 2023, eight (8) residential structures collapsed in S. Feliciano Street, Baranga...

Valenzuela City Hosts UN Assistant Secretary-General for Youth Affairs, Dr. Felipe Paullier, for Dialogue with Valenzuelano Youth
by: William Chua

Valenzuela City led by Mayor WES Gatchalian welcomed the esteemed visit of the United Nations Assistant Secretary-Gener...