MANILA, Philippines – The head of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Eastern Visayas expressed surprise over the report of the International Labor Organization (ILO) on the alleged proliferation of child labor in areas devastated by Super Typhoon Yolanda last November.
Nestor Ramos, DSWD Field Office 8 director, said the department is always on the lookout against child labor and has not noted a “rampant” number of cases.
More than 6,000 persons died and more than four million others were displaced when Yolanda hit the Visayas region on Nov. 8, 2013.
The typhoon also damaged almost P90 billion worth of properties and affected about six million workers.
“We’re surprised over that because we haven’t seen that here in Eastern Visayas. Did they mean Eastern Visayas when they say Yolanda-hit areas?” Ramos told The STAR.
ILO said the devastation wrought by Yolanda last year resulted in a widespread child labor problem in the Visayas.
Based on an assessment of the Yolanda-affected municipalities in Western and Central Visayas, 54 percent of the 112 barangays in the two regions reported children involved in child labor or in harsh and dangerous employment, the ILO said. –Rainier Allan Ronda, The Philippine Star
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7 Sept – Intl Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies
8 Sept – International Literacy Day
12 Sept – United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation
15 Sept – International Day of Democracy
16 Sept – International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
17 Sept – World Patient Safety Day
18 Sept – International Equal Pay Day
21 Sept – International Day of Peace
26 Sept – International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
27 Sept – World Tourism Day
28 Sept – International Day for Universal Access to Information
29 Sept – International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste
30 Sept – World Maritime Day
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Health, Safety and Sanitation Month
National Clean-up Month
Civil Service Month
National Peace Consciousness Month
Social Security Month
Rule of Law Month
National Teachers’ Month (Sept 5-Oct 4)
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Sept 17 – 23:
World Clean and Green Week
Week 2: Education Week
Week 4: Medicine Week
Last Week: National Family Week
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Third Saturday:
International Coastal Clean-up Day
Third Monday: World Health Day
Last Friday: National Maritime Day
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