SOME 8,390 Recovering Persons Who Used Drugs (RPWUDs) have been reintegrated into their families and communities since 2021 through the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Yakap Bayan Program (YBP), an agency official said on Thursday (April 25).
“The YBP is a holistic intervention of the DSWD which adopts human-rights based approaches to assist RPWUDs, their families and communities toward recovery,” Asst. Secretary for Disaster Response Management Group (DRMG) Irene Dumlao, who is also agency spokesperson, said.
