Comval signs child-friendly legislation

NABUNTURAN, COMPOSTELA VALLEY � The children of this province recently received the last of their four �gifts� when the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (provincial council) passed and enacted the landmark Local Code for Children.

Governor Arturo T. Uy sais the �gifts� were initiatives that cemented his administration’s commitment to build a child-friendly environment in Compostela Valley. These are the Local Development Plan for Children, Local Investment Plan, Local Code for Children, and the Local State of Children’s Report.

The first three gifts were completed as early as October 2008.

Uy said that the initiatives are anchored on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child � rights to survival, development, participation, and protection.

In his third and latest Local State of Children’s Report, he spoke before women’s groups, students, parents, leaders of municipal councils on women and children, representatives of the Philippine National Police women’s and children’s desks, and provincial officials.

“Compostela Valley province recognizes the significant existence of children in society for practical reasons� that they are the future of our province,” the governor said in his opening statement to the overflowing crowd at the lobby.

Uy stressed that every local government unit is responsible to deliver basic social services and ensure the sustainability of children’s welfare programs.

“This is the reason why the provincial government of Compostela Valley has been actively working to promote child-friendly governance through the realization of the four gifts for children,” he said. (PGO-Tourism/PGO-IDS)

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