PALO, Leyte — The Department of Social Welfare and Development's (DSWD) Field Office 8 (Eastern Visayas) has built 274 water harvesting facilities and 210 community gardens around the region as part of Project LAWA (Local Adaptation to Water Access) and Binhi (Breaking Insufficiency through Nutritious Harvest for the Impoverished).

"Based on the recent report we received, the DSWD's Eastern Visayas Field Office has already constructed 11 fishponds in Northern Samar, 11 in Eastern Samar and 252 in Southern Leyte under the Project LAWA and Binhi," Assistant Secretary Irene Dumlao said on Wednesday.

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