Mimaropa's RSCWC launches Sepilyo Campaign

Toothbrushing is a very important oral health routine but somehow this practice is underappreciated in poor and far-flung places. 

Since healthy teeth is a reflection of proper oral health care for children and teenagers, the Regional Sub-Committee on the Welfare of Children (RSCWC)- Mimaropa will  launch on Thursday a dental hygiene campaign for children in indigenous communities and child development centers in Mimaropa's geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas (GIDA).

RSCWC-Mimaropa is a policy-making a policy making and coordinating body for child welfare and protection,  programs and activities of regional line agencies and local governments.

The lauching will be held during the first day of the Children's Caravan in San Jose, Occidental Mindoro.

Dubbed as " Sepilyo Mo, Sagot Ko para sa Ngiting Aprubado," the campaign hopes to collection 100, 000 dental hygiene kits (tooth brushes and tooth pastes) and achieve the same level of success of the 1-Million Lapis campaign last year.

The launching of Sepilyo Campaign coincided with the national observance of Dental Health month this February.

The DSWD led RSCWC will likewise coordinate with partners in the local governments, Early Childhood Care Development  and the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program strengthen oral health care in the city-municipal health programs curriculum and family development session.

Like the 1-Million Lapis Campaign, drop boxes will be placed in Social Welfare and
Development Ofices and in the areas of RSCWC member agencies.

Offices in the private sector are likewise encouraged to put up drop boxes for dental hygiene kits.
Deadline for the donations will be on October 27; the distribution is scheduled on November this year. #

02 February 2017

DSWD, RSCWC launch Children's Caravan in Occidental Mindoro

The Department of Social Welfae and Development - Mimaropa and the Municipality of San Jose, Occidental Mindoro will lead the Children's Caravan today at the town's municipal gym.

The caravan,  expected to have the same level of fun of Children's Month, is supported by member organizations (including this Agency) and organizations of the Regional Sub-Committee for the Welfare of Children (RSCWC).

RSCWC-Mimaropa is a policy-making a policy making and coordinating body for child welfare and protection,  programs and activities of regional line agencies and local governments.

" The activity is called Children's Caravan cum Adoption Conscioussness Week Celebration since the month of February marks the Adoption Conscioussness Month," said Regional Director Wilma Naviamos of DSWD-Mimaropa.

About 1,000 children, parents, teachers and  including people from indigenous communities are expected to participate.

Adoption is defined as a socio-legal process of providing a permanent family to a child whose parents have voluntarily or involuntarily relinquished parental authority over the child.

There are two types of adoption:

Agency adoptions - are those in which a licensed adoption agency finds and develops adoptive families for children who are voluntarily or involuntarily committed. The adoptive families go through the process from application to finalization of the child’s adoption under the auspices of the DSWD a licensed child-placing agency. The legal rights of the child, the parents who gave birth to the child and the parents who will adopt the child, are all equally protected.

Family or relative adoptions - are those where the biological parents make a direct placement of the child to a relative or a member of their extended family with whom they relinquish their child.

Childless couples or people ready to receive new family members from Mimaropa are encouraged to visit the regional office (or call 02-526-6077)  for details of agency adoptions.

Also highlighting the Caravan is the launching of the Sepilyo Mo, Sagot Ko para sa Ngiting
Aprubado which aims to gather 100,000 dental kits for children of Child Development Centers and indigenous people's communities in geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas.#

02 February 2017