Council for children underscores right to education

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Source: http://news.pia.gov.ph/article/view/2601478557163/council-for-children-underscores-right-to-education
Tuesday, November 8, 2016

By Recthie T. Paculba (RTP/PIA10)

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, November 8 (PIA) -- With the theme, "Isulong: Kalidad na Edukasyon Para sa Lahat ng Bata," the Regional Council for the Welfare of Children (RCWC) kicks off the 24th National Children’s Month celebration with a motorcade, turnover of pencils for the One Million Lapis project and medical mission on November 7 at Kiosko Kagawasan, Cagayan de Oro City.

To help children focus on their studies and maximize the efforts of the government to ensure quality education, Cagayan de Oro City Social Welfare and Development (CSWD) Officer Teddy Sabuga-a says that it is important to take care of the children's health.

Hence, he urges mothers to provide the best nutrition to their children especially in their first two growing years stressing that the inability to nurture the child in such time of their life would result to fragile growth.

Since this stage is irreversible, Sabuga-a said that mothers should be breastfeeding their infants from 0-2 years.

For her part, Department of Social Welfare and Development-10 (DSWD) Assistant Regional Director for Operations Aldersey M. Dela Cruz says that education starts at home with the family and it is just continued in schools.

Thus, the value of education must be cultivated in homes to sharpen the children's potential and talent that will further aid in their physical, social, psychological and emotional development.

About 51,000 pencils were also turned over by the RCWC to the Department of Education (DepEd) during the celebration as part of the One Million Lapis campaign that aims to promote the child’s right to (write as basic right) education especially for children whose situations have impeded their chances to go to school.

The National Children's Month is slated in the month of November every year as emphasized in Republic Act 10661 to commemorate the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Children by the United Nations General Assembly.