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“Gusto kong maging titser! Duktor! Abogada! Pulis! Nars!”
Pagbungad pa lang sa silid-aralan ng mga batang nasa ikalawang-baitang ng Camias Elementary School ay ito na ang narinig ng mga panauhin. Kung di mo sila nakikita, aakalain mong ang mga batang ito na nasa edad walo hanggang sampu ay nasa ibang paaralan sa kapatagan o malapit sa kabihasnan.
Ang mga batang ito ay kabilang sa mga katutubong Aeta na nakatira sa bulubunduking lugar ng Camias Resettlement Area sa Porac, Pampanga. Dito inilikas ang kanilang mga magulang at kamag-anak nang pumutok ang Bulkang Pinatubo taong 1991.
Ayon sa datos, humigit kumulang sa 12,000 pamilya na kabilang sa etnikong pamayanan ng Gitnang Luzon ay naapektuhan ng pagputok ng Bulkang Pinatubo na nasa parte ng Botolan, Zambales. Sila ay kilala sa pagiging “nomadic” o palipat-lipat ng tirahan at ito ay makikita sa paraan ng paghahanap ng kabuhayan sa mga bulubunduking lugar o maging sa matatarik at malalayong kabundukan. Nananatili sila sa isang lugar na may maraming pagkukunan ng pagkain at lilipat sila kapag ang pagkain ay nasaid na.
DSWD 3 licensed foster families hold annual assemblyWednesday, 28 December 2011 02:32 | | |
Sixteen licensed foster families of the Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office III (DSWD FO III) converged on December 19-20 in Lubao, Pampanga in the Annual Assembly of Licensed Foster Families and Forum on Positive Parenting. Mila Corazon Fronda, head social worker of the Reception and Study Center for Children (RSCC) said that the the activity, which is being held annually, was aimed to enhance the parenting skills of these families and discuss issues/concerns relating to the Foster Care Program. This was also the RSCC's Christmas treat for the foster families and their foster children. The families and their foster children enjoyed the activities, like swimming, photo ops and parlor games, Fronda added. One of the resource persons, Ms. Maritona Victa Labajo, executive director of Cribs Foundation, tackled the topic on Positive Parenting and Anti-Corporal Punishment. The highlights of her discussion were basic Parenting Styles and techniques of Positive Discipline, i.e. “praise”, beat the clock, grandma’s rule, helping the children label their feelings, i.e. “naiinis, naiinip, natatakot”, neutral time, reprimand, reiterate the rule or violation clearly, time out and responsibility building.
A family of his ownWednesday, 07 December 2011 05:22 | | |
Ryan Christian was only three (3) months old when admitted at the Reception and Study Center for Children (RSCC) in Lubao, Pampanga on April 24, 2008. His biological mother left him at the Tarlac Provincial Hospital in Tarlac City three (3) days after giving birth. The hospital’s medical social worker in turn referred the case to Ma. Elena Jalos, Social Welfare Officer II of the Department of Social Welfare and Development-Social Welfare and Development (DSWD-SWAD) team in Tarlac. Efforts were made to locate the child’s biological parents until on August 2008, Ms. Jalos found them. After a series of counseling sessions, the couple decided to surrender the child to the DSWD by signing the Deed of Voluntary Commitment (DVC) on August 5, 2008. According to them, it was the most difficult decision they have to make but they have to do it if only for their child’s best welfare.
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DSWD-3 conducts convergence caravan in Quezon, Nueva EcjaMonday, 12 December 2011 06:46 | | |
In its effort to sustain support for the budget of the Philippine conditional cash transfer (CCT), the Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office III (DSWD FO III) will gather some 500 Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program beneficiaries from the first district of Nueva Ecija in a convergence caravan on December 13. The CCT is a rights-based program that invests in the condition of children by giving assistance to poor households so they can continue sending their children to school and provide them proper health care and nutrition. The program believes that by promoting the right of children to have education and good health, poor families have fair chances of rising out of extreme poverty.
Pantawid Pamilya quiz bee, poster making contest winners namedThursday, 17 November 2011 03:39 | | |
(City of San Fernando, Pampanga) Twelve Pantawid Pamilya student grantees were declared winners of the DSWD Pantawid Pamilya Tagisan ng Talino at Galing in Region III. The 12 winners were from the Elementary and High School Levels of the Quiz Bee and Poster-Making Contests; three (3) winners were declared for every event. For the elementary level quiz bee competition, Jerald Amurao of Angeles City was declared champion. Joseph Parco of Paombong, Bulacan and Patricia Nague of Laur, Nueva Ecija, were adjudged as first and second runners-up, respectively.
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