DAVAO CITY, Sept. 21 (PIA)– The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and its partner agencies started commemorating the National Family Week with a one-hour radio feature at DXRA Radyo Arangkada and a motorcade around downtown Davao.
DSWD chairs the Regional Inter-Agency Committee on the Filipino Family with partners from local government units, church-based groups, non-government organizations, other government agencies, and the private sector.
DSWD focal person on family Susan B. Pascua said, “Our partners have also demonstrated their support by posting advocacy streamers and organizing family fun day in their own offices.”
Pascua bared other activities for the week to include the opening salvo at People’s Park, Family Dialog at DSWD Group Home for Girls and Women, and a forum on Purposeful Parenting with family advocate-couple Norman and Sally Molinos as resource speakers.
In time for the celebration, SM Foundation, Inc. of the SM Group of Companies also turned over on Tuesday donated signature jeans to the three DSWD rehabilitation centers and brand new books to 80 day care centers, elementary and high schools, Pascua added.
The week-long event is slated on September 19 to 25 and carries the theme “Confronting Poverty and Social Discrimination” based on the United Nations Programme on the Family.
The local theme is “Hamon sa Pamilyang Pilipino: Kahirapan ay Tugunan, Pagkakapantay-pantay ay Kamtan.”
The theme highlights the strength, unity, and perseverance of the Filipino family in confronting the national social problem of poverty and social discrimination.
The Family Week celebration started in 1992 thru Presidential Proclamation No. 60 signed on September 18, 1992. It seeks to strengthen family unity and relationships through meaningful celebration and promotion of Filipino values.
Pascua said several agencies joined the motorcade including SOS Children’s Village, DSWD-RRCY, SALORSEDFI, Philippine National Police, Population Commission, City Social Services Development Office, National Commission on Indigenous People, Brgy. Centro-Agdao, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Family Life Phils, Traffic Management Center and the DSWD Regional Office. (CLC/DSWD-11/SMS/Carmela Cadigal-Duron)