CoC gets $17.6M to fight homelessness in 24 northern Puerto Rico towns
January 22, 2025
Municipalities with the highest number of homeless people in Puerto Rico will be assisted. #NewsismyBusiness
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Family Dept. gets $1.9M in FEMA funds to revamp HQ’s, 15 offices
February 11, 2022
The funds will address repairs in its offices throughout the island.
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Liberty partners with PARE Committee to fight gender violence
October 18, 2021
Liberty Puerto Rico and the PARE Committee recently entered a partnership to reinforce and maximize the projection and dissemination of PARE Committee’s educational campaign against gender violence. The president of the PARE Committee and Family Department Secretary Carmen A. González-Magaz, along with executives from Liberty Puerto Rico and its parent company, Liberty Latin America, were […]
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EDB, ADSEF join to push community biz development
August 6, 2014
As part of an initiative to promote the development of small businesses among low-income families, the Economic Development Bank for Puerto Rico and the Family Department's Socio-Economic Development Administration, known as ADSEF, have joined forces help those participating in the islandwide Economic and Social Rehabilitation program.
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Gov’t-sponsored ‘Family Market’ nets $2M in sales
February 18, 2014
Some 55 Agriculture Department-certified farmers have seen their sales blossom since last August, through their participation in government-sponsored “Family Markets,” held regularly throughout Puerto Rico.
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Puerto Rico gov’t, companies to buy goods from Corp. of Industries for the Blind
June 27, 2013
Puerto Rico government agencies and big companies from the private sector are rallying to help people with disabilities through a two-fold initiative backed by the Family Department.
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Restaurant association balks at end of ‘Buen Provecho’ program
April 24, 2013
The Puerto Rico Restaurant Association balked at the the Family Department's Socioeconomic Development Administration’s decision to nix the “Buen Provecho” initiative that for the past 29 months allowed the elderly, homeless and handicapped persons to use their nutritional assistance funds to buy prepared fast-food meals.
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