Search for child-friendly town underway
Roxas City -- Capiz will soon declare the most child-friendly municipality here in the province.
Undertaken as part of the activities of the Provincial Council for the Welfare of Children and Women (PCWC), the search is in support to the province?s Child Friendly Movement which is anchored on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The finalists to the provincial search include the towns of Panay, Sigma, Tapaz and Maayon.
Executive Order No.2, series of 2006 issued by Capiz Governor Vicente Bermejo has named the Provincial Awards and Evaluation Team for the said search. The team is chaired by OIC Provincial Planning and Development Coordinator Antonio Asis, who is also the province?s action officer for the Sixth Country Programme for Children. The members of the team include Mrs. Martha Bermejo of the Department of Education, Jemin Guillermo of the Philippine Information Agency, Lynette Urquiola of DILG, Ma. Divina Bigcas from Provincial Health Office, Josephine Magallanes of Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office, and Albert Porras and Wilar de los Santos, both from PPDO.
As a commitment to the CFM, Governor Bermejo has appropriated P100,000.00 for the first prize winner, P75,000.00 for the second placer, and P50,000.00 for the third placer.
Last year, the municipality of Panay was declared the provincial winner for the most child friendly search.
The Presidential Award for Child Friendly Municipality and City is a nationwide search for local government units who have placed children at the center of their development efforts. The annual activity is in consonance with Executive Order 184, series of 1999. Led by the Council for the Welfare of Children (CWC), which is the government?s focal agency for children, the award aims to institutionalize a child-friendly environment and governance in the promotion and protection of the rights of children to survival, development, protection and participation.
(PIA)