Manila, Feb. 7 -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Academy, the agency's premier training and learning facility, will soon re-open its doors to provide further competencies to social workers and paraprofessionals from the public and private sectors across the country.

Director Justin Caesar Anthony Batocabe of the Social Welfare Institutional Development Bureau (SWIDB) said the renovation of the facilities of the DSWD Academy is nearly finished, and classes are likely to begin by March.

"For turnover na po siya next week (It's ready for turnover next week), and by March, we will have our classes there already, may naka-calendar na ho diyan (classes have already been calendared)," Batocabe told reporters at the Thu...