DSWD-7 Director Shalaine Marie Lucero. | CDN Digital picture / Niña Mae Oliverio
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Division of Social Welfare and Growth (DSWD-7) has expressed its help on the ‘Cease Mendicancy’ marketing campaign that the Cebu Metropolis authorities launched final November 4.
The marketing campaign prohibits the general public from giving alms to mendicants, exploited infants and minors who keep on public roads, sidewalks, parks and bridges to beg.
Cebu Metropolis’s marketing campaign additionally covers those that will loiter on metropolis streets to carol in the course of the Christmas celebration.
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DSWD-7 Director Shalaine Marie Lucero stated in a media discussion board on Wednesday, Nov. 27, that caroling throughout Christmas and Sinulog celebrations are extremely discouraged, particularly on busy Cebu Metropolis streets.
“As a result of that’s exposing our youngsters to hazard. Naa gani uban ana ma sideswipe, madisgrasya,” she stated.
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Anti-Mendicancy
Lucero stated she was glad that town authorities handed Metropolis Ordinance 1631 in 1996, in help of Presidential Decree No. 1563 or the Anti-Mendicancy Legislation that was enacted on June 11, 1978.
In 2022, the Metropolis’s Anti-Mendicancy Board began to strictly implement the ordinance.
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This yr, the Board is pushing for a good stricter implementation of the ordinance after they seen that there are nonetheless lots of mendicants asking alms on Cebu Metropolis streets.
Lucero stated that having a neighborhood ordinance will enable the Metropolis to name the eye of the mother and father who enable their youngsters to both beg or carol on metropolis streets.
When one thing occurs to those youngsters, the mother and father shall be made to reply for his or her negligence.
“Everyone knows that enforcement of the regulation takes lots of dedication, at the same time as we advocate for that. It’s necessary to strengthen the advocacies and the efforts of the barangay to remind mother and father and to name on mother and father nga naay makitang mga bata nga nanaygon,” Lucero stated.
Caroling
Lucero stated that youngsters ought to by no means be uncovered to the hazards of caroling on the streets.
“The decision now could be to the mother and father to be accountable mother and father and deal with their youngsters, as a result of whereas caroling is one thing we beloved to do and take heed to once we have been a lot youthful. Pero kanang caroling nga magazine gukod ka sa sakyanan, magdagan-dagan ang mga bata, risgo,” she stated.
Lucero stated that caroling ought to as a substitute be confined of their respective communities or neighborhoods in order that youngsters received’t should exit.
Nevertheless, it might nonetheless be ultimate to simply make them keep at house for their very own security.
“However given the numerous challenges earlier than our youngsters and the dangers that we’ll face with all of the issues which can be occurring round us, it’s higher to not expose them to caroling,” she stated.
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