ORMOC CITY– The member-agencies of the Eastern Visayas Regional Child Labor Committee (EVRCLC) tackled in a meeting some issues and concerns for the welfare of child laborers in the region.
The EVRCLC had its last activity in 2012 with the drafting of a memorandum of agreement for the intensified, sustained and unified implementation of Philippine Program Against Child Labor in Eastern Visayas Region.
Lawyer Roy L. Buenafe, OIC-assistant regional director (ARD) of DOLE 8, who presided the RCLC meeting in Ormoc City, Friday (October 6), hope to make the RCLC alive again by reconstituting its membership and structure.
He asked representatives of the RCLC member-agencies to intensify their child labor-related development programs to help minimize and eradicate it in the region.
He also highlighted the reaffirmation and appraisal of the commitment of the EVRCLC member-agencies on the drafted 2012 MOA to fit into their present programs and interventions.
The member-agencies of the EVRCLC lined-up the following activities for the National Children’s Month celebration in November: MOA signing of the heads of the EVRCLC member-agencies of the intensified, sustained and unified implementation of Philippine Program Against Child Labor in Eastern Visayas Region; gift-giving to the identified child laborers in barangays Rizal and Tugbong in Kananga and in barangays Sumanga and Patag in Ormoc City dubbed “Pasko sa Nobyembre”; national launching of IEC materials for the Strategic Helpdesk for Information, Education, Livelihood and other Developmental Interventions (SHIELD) Project; and the DSWD 8 children-related activities.
The lined-up activities for the National Children’s Month celebration in November tentatively set on November 29, 2017 in Ormoc City will be finalized during the meeting of the EVRCLC member-agencies on November 3, 2017 in Ormoc City.
(PIA8-Ormoc Desk)
