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Children's Welfare: Well and Fair for Children








The pandemic was an obstruction to the development of children. The basic rights, privileges, and opportunities were reduced resulting in the stagnant growth of the young ones. Isolation, as well as lack of  normal socialization, affected the children's physical and mental health. In connection to this, the theme of this year's National Children's Month: Kalusugan, Kaisipan, at Kapakanan ng Bawat Bata Ating Tutukan!, targets to acknowledge the impacts and effects of the pandemic on the youth and children, and to restore their welfare that has been reduced or lost due to the pandemic.
In commemoration to the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child on November 20, 1989, the late President Benigno Simeon Aquino III signed the Republic Act 10661 also known as National Children's Month Act. The purpose is to instill yhe significance of children's rights and to encourage the Filipino people to protect the social, mental and physical welfare of the youth. NCM's Celebration aims to sow knowledge about the health, mentality, and welfare of the children that was knocked back during the peak of the pandemic.


The agonizing results of the pandemic damaged a lot of people. In spite of that, the severe effects that the children needed to endure remained unnoticed. This month, we are now witnessing and perceiving the Philippine Government alongside the Filipino people finally giving them the attention they needed. Opportunities for development as well as support are now being emphasized. Furthermore, they seek to propagate the protection and compliance with the rights of all children. It desires to raise and bring up the children's confidence and welfare that the pandemic took from them. An eye-opener for everyone to observe and preserve basic human and children's rights even throughout a catastrophe. 


Reference/s:
National Children’s Month to focus on children’s mental health issues, Retrieved November 29, 2022 
https://pia.gov.ph/news/2022/11/02/national-childrens-month-to-focus-on-childrens-mental-health-issues

An act declaring November of every year as National Children's Month. RA 10661. Retrieved November 29, 2022
https://www.cwc.gov.ph/uploads/Advocacy/2018_National_Childrens_Month/Republic_Act_10061_Series_of_2015/RA_10061_NCM.pdf

Part 3 - The Philippine Children's Month. The Manila Times. Retrieved November 30, 2022
https://www.manilatimes.net/2022/11/24/campus-press/part-3-the-philippine-childrens-month/1867598#:~:text=DepEd%20informs%20us%20that%20the,ng%20Bawat%20Bata%20Ating%20Tutukan!%22

Youth Development Roadmap. YMCA. Retrieved November 30, 2022
https://www.ymca.org/sites/national/files/2021-04/0022355.jpg

 
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