CBHP project with DSWD

The VPHCS has sustained the second year of its health capability-building project funded by the Bayan Muna Party-List and supported by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in five barangays in Cebu. 

The two-year project “Building community-based health programs (CBHP) in Cebu through training, education and services,” is implemented in Barangay T. Padilla, Sitio Ermita Proper in Barangay Ermita, and Sitio Lawis in Barangay Pasil in Cebu City, Sitio Back of Matimco, Barangay Subangdaku in Mandaue City, and Barangay Canjulao in Lapu-lapu City.

The project works with people’s organizations in the communities, including the Pundok sa Sitio Para sa Kauswagan (PSPK) in T. Padilla, Ermita Fisherfolks Association in Ermita, Pasil Women’s Association in Pasil, KALUWASAN in Sitio Back of Matimco, and the Nagkahisang Kabus sa Lapu-lapu in Canjulao. They have health committees with community health workers (CHWs). 

A basic health skills training for community health workers.

 VPHCS staff Irish Ramirez talks to residents 
in Canjulao on hypertension.

Health skills trainings have been conducted for 75 CHWs in order to equip them with basic knowledge and skills to render preventive, promotive and selective curative care to the residents. Health education classes are also conducted among residents in the areas to promote health awareness with the aim to empower them in terms of health care delivery on common health problems that can be prevented in the community level. The VPHCS staff also guide, monitor and upgrade the knowledge and skills of the trained CHWs in between trainings as they deliver their health services to the residents.  

 CHW checks up a child with fever in Sitio Back of Matimco

 Dr. Erlinda Posadas talks to women 
in T.Padilla about family health.

 Growth monitoring of children 
in Sitio Back of Matimco.

 Pasil CHW takes BP.

 Ventusa services by a young CHW in Canjulao.

Women in Pasil process ginger powder.