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NVA President, Conferred Most Outstanding PWD Award” by UP-PGH
The UP-PGH Department of Rehabilitation Medicine celebrated the “32nd National Disability and Rehabilitation Week” with their annual Recognition Award of Outstanding PWD last July 12, 2010. This is to honor...
Continue Reading32nd NDPR Week Activities
Here is the list of activities for the 32nd National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation Week celebration including the dates and venues: July 17 Thanksgiving Mass – Sky Dome, SM North...
Continue ReadingGuidelines on the Selection for the Recognition of Visually Impaired Achievers
I.Introduction The Recognition of Visually Impaired Achievers (ROVIA) Award was conceived by the Inter-Agency Committee of the White Cane Safety Day annual observance pursuant to Republic Act No. 6759. This...
Continue ReadingInternational Experts Discuss Successes and Obstacles for Children with Disabilities
Everything from stigma to statistics-experts hash it out in Voices Report Doha, Qatar, The Doha International Institute for Family Studies and Development (DIIFSD) would like to announce the completion of...
Continue ReadingNCDA commends Ayala Malls Group for its PWD-friendly establishments
Undersecretary Rosie Lovely T. Romulo, Chairperson of the National Council on Disability Affairs, commends Ayala Malls Group for its “U First Priority Shopping” scheme for persons with disabilities. “Shoppers with...
Continue ReadingNCDA helps support VISTA 2010
The National Council on Disability Affairs thru Chairman Rosie Lovely T. Romulo recently helped support a sports activity dubbed “VISTA (Visually Impaired Sports Training and Advocacy) 2010” in Marikina City...
Continue ReadingUrgent Manifestation and Motion of the Drugstores Association of the Philippines, Inc., et al. for TRO and/or writ of preliminary injuction on the 20% medicine discount of PWDs
Republic of the Philippines COURT OF APPEALS Manila SPECIAL FITEENTH (15TH ) DIVISION C.A. G.R.-S.P. No. 109903 DRUGSTORES ASSOCIATION OF THE PHILIPINES, INC., SAVE MORE DRUG, INC., PHILIPPINES, INC., SAVE...
Continue ReadingNCDA Welcomes Foreign Experts and New Opportunities
To push international cooperation in a big way, Chairperson Romulo led the NCDA in a series of meetings with visiting foreign experts from VSO-Netherlands, Fred Hollows Foundation, NHE Japan and...
Continue ReadingNCDA LAUDS COMELEC’S ISSUANCE OF RESOLUTIONS MAKING VOTING EASIER FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
NCDA lauds COMELEC for issuing Minute Resolution No. 10-0326, which approved the extension of preferential treatment to senior citizens, pregnant women and persons with disabilities on election day by designating...
Continue ReadingMetropolitan Museum of Manila Invites the Public to their “PWD-Friendly†Exhibits
The Metropolitan Museum of Manila announces their line up of activities for the first quarter of 2010 for the viewing public. The exhibit activities will especially appeal to students and...
Continue ReadingPresident Arroyo Visit
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo shakes hands with one of the women with disabilities during her visit last February 18, 2010 to the newly constructed two-storey building of the National Council on...
Continue ReadingGMA at NCDA
March 8, 2010dandeePhoto ReleasesE.O. 709,NCDA Building,Nora C. Salazar,President GMA,Rosie Lovely T. Romulo
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (left) together with Chairperson Rosie Lovely T. Romulo, Assistant Secretary Nora C. Salazar both of the National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA), and other guests step down...
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