Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rex Gatchalian ushers Sen. Joel Villanueva during the lawmaker’s visit to the National Resource Operations Center (NROC), the main disaster response hub of the agency in Pasay City on Friday (August 2).

During Sen. Villanueva’s visit, he inspected the 11 delivery trucks that are part of the DSWD’s overall logistics capacity building package, which the solon tirelessly worked for inclusion in the General Appropriations Act (GAA). The package includes mobile command center trucks, forklifts, and mobile kitchen truck which will further capacitate the agency in its disaster response efforts.

The DSWD chief also greeted Senator Villanueva on his birthday, which coincided with his visit to the NROC, and also thanking the legislator for his initiatives for the Department.

The DSWD officials present at the activity were Asst. Secretary for Community Engagement Ulysses Hermogenes; Special Assistant to the Secretary (SAS) for DRMG Leo Quintilla, who is also concurrent Officer-in-Charge (OIC) of the National Resource and Logistics Management Bureau (NRLMB); and Disaster Response Management Bureau (DRMB) Director Michael Cristopher Mathay.