BY: FERLIZA CALIZAR-CONTRATISTA
CEBU CITY, September 23 (PIA)--- It’s the Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program beneficiaries time to shine this Sunday, as 5,000 of them are expected to gather in Cebu City to celebrate Family Week.
Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD-7) information officer Lea Quintana announced in today’s Kapihan sa PIA that families from all over the region will gather on September 28, Sunday at Plaza Independencia in Cebu City for a Convergence Caravan.
“They will be sharing success stories and how the Filipino families survived the various calamities,” Quintana said.
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The gathering is done simultaneously in all regions nationwide celebrating Family Week with the theme, “Celebrating the Filipino Families: Resilient and Caring”.
“It will give recognition to Filipino families indomitable spirit and compassion, to which the Philippines is globally known for,” Quintana said.
Included among the 5,000 are the 4Ps beneficiary families who were victims of the typhoon and the earthquake last year.
On the same occasion the “Pantawid Pamilya para sa Pagbabago” campaign will be launched with the “Kaya ko ang Pagbabago” dance to be performed by the dancing inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC).
Local government units are also encouraged to celebrate the National Family Week with other similar activities related to unifying the families.
Meanwhile Region VII bet for the Model Pantawid Pamilya Search, Ewican family of Carmen, Bohol, landed in the top 5 of the annual contest.
Final announcement of winners will also be done on the same day in Manila.
4Ps is a poverty alleviation program of the Philippines which now covers all barangays in the entire country. (mbcn/FCC/PIA-Cebu)