1st Quezon City PERSONS WITH DISABILITY (PWD) Summit

Theme: “Making Rights Real for Filipinos with Disability”

As Full citizens, people with disabilities have equal rights and are entitled to dignity, equal treatment, independent living, and full participation in society.

The aim is to provide differently abled persons with the same individual choices and control in dignity in their daily lives as abled persons. Care and support services are to be more tailored to the specific needs of the people with disability.

Problems concerning people with disability transcends in every aspect of their dignity as humans, even if efforts were made, laws and ordinances were crafted, much intended to protect them, still there are so many cases of non implementations of laws, ordinances etc. with regards to the situations and development of the Persons with Disabilities.

Hon. Vice Mayor Ma. Josefina Belmonte will Present and Discuss the City’s Policy Reform Agenda for Persons with Disability (PWD). Hon. City Mayor Herbert Bautista will deliver his Message to the activity, and Miss Ma. Teresa Mariano, Head of the Social Services Development Department (SSDD) will present the QC-PWD Situationer, and Mr. Mateo A. Lee, Executive Director of the National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA) will deliver his closing remarks.

The Venue of the PWD Summit will be at the Occupational and Safety Health Center, North Avenue, Quezon City. Time: 8:00am to 5:00pm

The Summit’s Agenda to be discussed are:

1. Quezon City’s policy Reform Agenda for Persons with Disability
2. Existing Services and Programs
3. Areas of Concern
4. Proposed Services and Measures

Lead Office: Office of the Vice Mayor OVM-Quezon City

Partners involved in this activity:

1. Social Services Development Department (SSDD)
2. National Council For Disability Affairs (NCDA)
3. DOH
4. DEPED-SPED Division

100 WHEELCHAIRS FOR QC PWDs

Quezon City Councilor Dorothy Delarmente will distribute some 100 wheelchairs as a special Valentine gift to the city’s underprivileged disabled residents in the first district.

Councilor Delarmente, a doctor by profession, has partnered with her fraternity brothers from the Phi Kappa Mu of the University of the Philippines’ College of Medicine, to facilitate the distribution of the free wheelchairs, which will also serve as the councilor’s Valentine gift to the city’s disabled constituents.

The turnover ceremony, which will be held on February 12, will be highlighted by an advocacy walk from Philcoa to the QC Hall Risen Garden grounds. The activity will also have as participants previous beneficiaries of the program.

The lady councilor expressed optimism that the project shall serve as an effective venue to increase the level of public awareness on the plight of persons with disabilities in the city that they, too, need to be empowered to ensure their successful integration into the mainstream of national growth and development.

Last year, the fraternity, under its flagship project “Empowerment Through Mobility,” also provided similar donations to Quezon City.

Aside from QC, the UP-PGH based fraternity will also be providing wheelchairs to other local government units as well as hospitals and non-government organizations around the country.-30- Maureen Quinones, PAISO.

PWD BIGYAN NG SAPAT NA SERBISYO

INTERNATIONAL DAY NG PWD GINUNITA

BILANG paggunita sa “International Day of Persons with Disabilities” ay nagkaroon ng selebrasyon ang marami nating kababayan na may kapansanan noong Disyembre 3, 2010 sa Skydome SM North EDSA na may temang “Keeping the Promise: Mainstreaming Disability in the Millenium Development Goals” na pinangunahan nina Mr. Ming Barapantao at Ms. Carmen Zubiaga.

Ang nasabing aktibidad ay dinaluhan iba’t-ibang lider at kasapi ng PWD at sinuportahan ng ilang sangay ng pamahalaan tulad ng Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC), Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), House of Representative, National Council on Disability Affairs, Philippine Information Agency, Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), Department of National Defense (DND), Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), SM Supermalls ng Office of Disability Affairs, Philippine Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine, Nova Foundation for Differently-Abled Persons Inc., Women With Disabilities Leap to Social and Economic Progress, Autism Society of the Philippines, Leonard Cheshire Disability Foundation-Young Voices, New Vois Association of the Philippines Inc., Philippine Association for Citizens with Developmental & Learning Disabilities Inc., Parents Association of Visually Impaired Children (PAVIC), Katipunan ng mga Kawal na may Kapansanan Inc. (KKKI), Philippine Sports Association for the Differently-Abled (PHILSPADA-NPC), Philippine Federation of the Deaf (PFD), Life Haven, Cerebral Palsied Association of the Philippines Inc., (CPAP), Katipunan ng May Kapansanan sa Pilipinas Inc. (KAMPI), at Alyansa ng may Kapansanang Pinoy Inc. (AKAP-Pinoy).

Naging kapansin-pansin lamang na ilang PWD ang nahirapan sa pag-uwi pagkatapos ng naganap na International Day ng PWD dahil ilan sa mga ito ay nakita pa namin na matiyagang pinagugulong ng isang naka-‘wheel chair’ ang kanyang nagsisilbing sasakyan at paa sa kanyang pag-uwi sa may Quezon Memorial Circle habang walang alintana syang nakikipagsabayan sa mga nagbibiyahe ring bus at jeep. Ilang katulad pa kaya nyang PWD ang totoong bibigyang pansin ng ating pamahalaan na mabigyan ng lugar sa kalsada ang mga katulad na kalagayan ng PWD na ito?

Gayundin, malaking magagawa ng lokal na pamahalaan upang ang bawat barangay ay magkaroon ng tunay at puspusang pagbibigay ng proyekto o pagsasanay upang maging daan nila upang sila ay kumita at maitaguyod din nila ang kanilang pamilya.

Marami pa ring PWD ang wala sa nasabing selebrasyon subalit isa lamang ang sigurado lahat sila ay umaasam na mapabilang sila sa ‘Millenium Development Goals’ na gustong maisakatuparan ng ating bansa dahil tulad ng karaniwang tao sila man ay kabilang pa rin ng isang pamayanan.

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