Catarman, Northern Samar (23 November) — In order to provide special protection to children from all forms of abuse, neglect, cruelty, exploitation and discrimination, Governor Paul R. Daza issued executed order No. 10-07 creating Child Labor Committee under the Northern Samar Council for the Welfare of Children.
The committee will act as the primary coordinating mechanism against child labor in Northern samara and shall serve as the consultative and policy recommending body on all matters related to child labor.
Likewise, it will formulates and review plans, programs and activities on the prevention and elimination of child labor and recommends the incorporation of the same to the Provincial Development Plan for Children and Annual Investment Plan.
The group will also advocate for the provision of holistic support and for increased resource allocation towards programs and projects that benefit the child laborers and their families and serves as the venue for sharing and documentation of information, experiences and good practices on the prevention and elimination of child labor.
Northern Samar is one of the four provinces that comprise the program’s pilot areas of the International Labour Organization in the Philippines. ILO/IPEC programme is designed to support national efforts aimed at achieving the government’s target to remove 75% of Filipino children from the worst from of child labor by 2015.
It is hoped that this support provides some of the fundamental steps that will enable the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and its partners realize the vision, embodied under the new Philippine Programme against Child Labor, of a “Child Labor-Free Philippines”. (PIA Northern Samar)
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