BACOLOD City Councilor El Cid Familiaran and other concerned individuals have joined hands in the advocacy to empower solo parents in the city.
Matet Lozada, convenor of the Solo Parent Advocates in Negros (Spain), held a press conference at the Negros Press Club Friday to present their advocacy on the cause of solo parents. Familiaran is the author of an ordinance institutionalizing the programs and services to solo parents and their children. This is accordance with the Republic Act 8972 or an act providing for benefits and privileges to solo parents and their children. Lozada said that they will start organizing the solo parents in the 61 barangays so that their cause and needs will also be heard and addressed. She said the family is the foundation of the nation thus, there has to be an effort that will strengthen its solidarity and ensure its total development. "Our mission is to promote social justice and help provide mechanism for the implementation of comprehensive package of social development and welfare services intended to solo parents and their children," she said. Lozada added, “Our vision is to see a more productive and empowered family of solo parents in our community who are full of skills, trainings, sense of values, self worth and self reliance." Sun.Star Bacolod
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