Manila, July 23 -- More than 282,000 partner-beneficiaries were empowered through the Department of Social Welfare and Development's (DSWD) Project Local Adaptation to Water Access (LAWA) and Breaking Insufficiency through Nutritious Harvest for the Impoverished (BINHI) from 2023 to 2025, a department official said Thursday.

DSWD spokesperson Irene Dumlao, who also serves as assistant secretary of the Disaster Response Management Group, said the 282,710 partner-beneficiaries organized 2,197 groups that implemented various LAWA and BINHI projects in 6,529 barangays across the country.

"Alinsunod sa kautusan ni Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos Jr., na palakasin ang kakayahan ng mga Pilipino pagdating sa food security, water sufficiency, at pag...