News & Updates

  • A heart for health workers

    A heart for health workers

    On Valentine’s Day, the Council for Health and Development is one with all Filipino health workers in calling out the Philippine government for what the Alliance of Health Workers dub as “continued and outright negligence to their safety, protection, rights and welfare by implementing inhumane and anti-health workers’ policies.” Despite the same risks that our

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  • Community Health Workers at ang community pantry

    Community Health Workers at ang community pantry

    Nagbukas ngayong araw ang community pantry sa Brgy. Bagong Silangan, Quezon City ang Parish Social Action Ministry at Community Health Workers (CHW) ng Samahan ng Manggagawang Kristyano sa Pamayanan (SMKP) sa pakikipagtulungan ng kanilang Kura Paroko Fr. Emman Vallega, O. Carm.Ang mga gulay na kanilang ipinamimigay ay nagmula sa proyektong urban farming ng lungsod na

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  • CHWs finished their basic health skills training despite the pandemic

    CHWs finished their basic health skills training despite the pandemic

    For the first time, it was a face-to-face get together of two batches of Community Health Workers (CHWs) who have finished their Basic Health Skills Training Levels 1 and 2 in Brgy. Bagong Silangan, Quezon City. Apart from their role as CHWs, these volunteers trained by Council for Health and Development are also contact tracers.

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  • “Love is the reason why you are here.” CHWs graduation ceremony in Tanay, Rizal

    “Love is the reason why you are here.” CHWs graduation ceremony in Tanay, Rizal

    “Pag-ibig ang dahilan kung bakit kayo naririto.” (Love is the reason why you are here.) These were the words of Sr. Aurora during the graduation of the second batch of Community Health Workers (CHW) in Tanay, Rizal. Her fellow Benedictine nun Sr. Alice added, “Hinirang at tinawag kayo ng Diyos. Para saan? Para maglingkod sa

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