The Quezon City local government supports the the “Million Volunteer Run 2” of the Philippine National Red Cross with the PRC-Quezon City Chapter. The public is encouraged to participate and join the run which will be staged on February 10, 2013, 5:00 am by the PRC-QC Chapter from Commonwealth Avenue to Quezon Memorial Circle. [...]
Category: Information, Education and Communications Division
NCDA Information, Education and Communications Division
Dream Chase 2013 Charity Fun Run
CereCare Philippines Foundation provides psychological and rehabilitation services, and special education program and rehabilitation services and special education program for children with special needs such as Autism, ADHD, Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome and other similar conditions. [...]
YOUNG VOICES’ SHOUT- OUT “ May PWD ID Kami, Kasali Kami!!
Leonard Cheshire Disability Philippines Foundation, Inc. (LCDPFI) gathered over 60 young people with disabilities and partners, to launch these “Young Voices” (YVs) as a powerhouse cast of disability advocates in Iloilo last October 28 to October 31, 2012. [...]
Young PWD Leaders Launched as Rights Advocates
To develop young leaders with disabilities as rights advocates, NCDA Director Carmen Zubiaga’s instructions, Abilympics Champs Virgie Rabino and Raphael Torralba found their hands full, as Resource Speakers during the 34th NDPR Week. On two separate occasions, both showed their mettles as budding leaders in their own rights. [...]
COMELEC, DILG and DOH, 34th NDPR Week’s ‘PWD-friendly’ Websites Awardees
For the 34th NDPR Week, 3 strategic government agencies DILG, DOH and COMELEC bagged the “PWD-friendly Website Awards, after complying with the NCDA-NCC Joint Circular on Web Accessibility, to boost the sector’s “RIGHT TO INFORMATION” towards socio-economic opportunities. [...]
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NCDA Launches National Campaign on White Cane for School Children with Visual Impairment
Undersecretary Alicia R. Bala (center) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and concurrent Officer-in-Charge/Executive Director of the National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA), takes the lead in the launching of a nationwide campaign to promote white cane and its distribution to school children with visual impairment held at the Philippine National School for the Blind (PNSB) in Pasay City. The distribution which also took place at the Batino Elementary School in Quezon City and Heneral Pio del Pilar SPED Center in Makati City, is a project of NCDA and DSWD in partnership with the Department of Education to intensify public awareness on the plight of visually impaired persons in the community and to promote respect and recognition of the white cane as an assistive device. [...]
NCDA Joins Two-fold Women’s Month Celebration in Antipolo, Rizal
Led by DSWD Secretary and NCDA Chairperson Corazon “Dinky” Soliman, the NCDA team alongside other agency representatives, made 500 polybags of godon and narra, to help green the devastated Marikina Watershed, in San Juan, Antipolo last March 8, 2012. One team worked with Sitio Sapinit women while another team worked with women from Barangay Calawis, Antipolo. [...]
MAKE THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION REAL FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA) Deputy Executive Director Mateo A. Lee, Jr. (3rd from left) presents a “PWD-Friendly Website Award” Certificate to Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Assistant Secretary Vilma B. Cabrera in recognition of the Department’s compliance to the Web Accessibility Standards set by the Philippine Website Accessibility Group represented by its President, Mr. Remberto I. Esposa, Jr. (Extreme Left) and the National Computer Center-Information and Communications Technology Office. The ceremony, which also served as the launching of the DSWD’S PWD-Accessible Website was held last January 20, 2012 at its Central Office. Others in photo include (from left to right) NCDA’s Project Evaluation Officer Reginaldo Tolentino, DSWD Officer-in-Charge of Management Information Systems Service Felino O. Castro V, and DSWD Webmaster Manuelito C. Bongabong. [...]