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VOLUME XLI
No. 18
Abril 25-Mayo 01, 2018
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DISTRIBUSYON NG HONORARIUM PARA
SA MGA VOLUNTEERS, IPINAMAHAGI
ISINAGAWA
ang
distribusyon ng 2018 First
Quarter Honorarium, na
nagkakahalaga ng PhP
22 Milyon, para sa mga
volunteer workers, kabilang
ang mga barangay health
workers (BHW), barangay
nutrition scholars (BNS),
day care workers (DCW),
Pantawid Leaders, Senior
Citizen Officers at Persons
with Disability (PWD)
officers, noong ika-10
hanggang ika-17 ng Abril
2018 sa pangunguna ng
Provincial Social Welfare
and Development Office
(PSWDO) at Provincial
Health Office (PHO).
Nasa 12,868 ang
mga volunteer workers
sa buong lalawigan na
mga direktang kabalikat
at katulong ng Kapitolyo
sa mga barangay at bayan
upang
maipaabot
ang
lahat ng nakaprograma at
nakalaang tulong at serbisyo
publiko ng Pamahalaang
Panlalawigan ng Batangas,
sa pangunguna ni Gov.
Dodo Mandanas.
Nagtungo
ang
mga kawani ng Batangas
Capitol upang ipamahagi
ang
honorarium
sa
mga volunteers na taga
Nasugbu, Lian, Calatagan,
Calaca, Balayan, Tuy, Taal
at Lemery noong April 10;
Agoncillo, San Nicolas,
Sta. Teresita, Alitagtag,
Cuenca, San Luis, Lipa
City, San Jose at Ibaan
noong April 11; Rosario,
Padre
Garcia,
Taysan,
Malvar, Mataas na Kahoy,
Balete at Batangas City
noong April 12; Laurel,
Talisay, Tanauan City at
Sto. Tomas noong April
13; San Pascual, Mabini,
Bauan, Lobo at San Juan
noong April 16; at sa island
municipality ng Tingloy
noong April 17.
Sa
kauna-
unahang
pagkakataon,
nagtungo mismo ang mga
kinatawan ng pamahalaan
panlalawigan sa bayan ng
Tingloy para ipamahagi
ang honorarium ng mga
volunteer
workers
na
taga roon upang hindi na
mabawasan pa ang ayudang
kanilang
matatanggap
bilang
kabalikat
sa
paglilingkod. – Ma. Cecilei
C. De Castro – Batangas
Capitol PIO
Board
Member Sanchez,
Pormal na Nagbitiw sa Pwesto
Pormal na nagbitiw na
sa puwesto si Board
Member
Mildred
B.
Sanchez sa Sangguniang
Panlalawigan
ng
Batangas, na kanyang
ipinahayag sa harap ni
Bise-Gobernador
Nas
Ona at iba pang mga
board members sa idinaos
na Regular Session noong
ika-16 ng Abril 2018 sa
Sanggunian Bldg, Capitol
Compound,
Batangas
City.
Ayon kay Sanchez, bilang
isang Ex-Officio at naging
presidente ng Philippine
Councilors League (PCL)
– Batangas Province
ng lalawigan sa loob
ng dalawampu’t isang
buwan,
napakaswerte
niya
at
napabilang
siya
sa
Sangguniang
Panlalawigan
na
isa
sa
pinakamakulay
na karanasan niya sa
kanyang buong karera sa
larangan ng pulitika.
Kaugnay
dito,
kanyang inindorso ang
Pangalawang
Pangulo
ng PCL – Batangas
Province na si Konsehal
Leo Malinay mula sa
Munisipalidad ng Lian
bilang kanyang kahalili sa
pagiging PCL President
at Board Member.
Isinaad din ni Sanchez na
nais pa niyang pagsilbihan
ang buong lalawigan,
subalit
kailangan
na
muna niyang bumalik sa
paglilingkod sa bayan
ng Nasugbu, kung saan
baon niya ang lahat ng
kanyang natutunan sa
pagiging Board Member
para
mas
maayos
na
mapaglingkuran
ang bayang kanyang
pinagmulan. – Marinela
Jade Maneja; Batangas
Capitol PIO
Volunteer Workers ‘tungo sa Rich Batangas. Kabilang ang Tingloy sa pinuntahan ng mga kinatawan ng Kapitolyo sa distribusyon ng
2018 First Quarter Honorarium para sa mga volunteer workers, kabilang ang mga barangay health workers (BHW), barangay nutrition
scholars (BNS), day care workers (DCW), Pantawid Leaders, Senior Citizen Officers at Persons with Disability (PWD) officers,
noong ika-10 hanggang ika-17 ng Abril 2018 sa pangunguna ng Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO) at
Provincial Health Office (PHO). Vince Altar / Photo: Jhay Jhay Pascua – Batangas Capitol PIO
Kampanya kontra tigdas isasagawa mula
Abril 25-Mayo 25 sa Metro Manila – DOH
By AUBREY MAKILAN
EDMONTON,
Alberta
—
An initiative by the Canadian
government to review its pilot
caregiver program is being
perceived as a threat to its very own
existence.
Canada’s
caregiver
program concludes on November
29, 2019, or five years after its
pilot projects, composed of the
Caring for Children and Caring for
Persons with High Medical Needs,
were implemented in 2014.
On February 9, the
federal government’s Immigration,
Refugee and Citizenship Canada
(IRCC) announced that it is
only giving caregivers up to the
set deadline to complete their
requirements for permanent status
or else they will not qualify.
The
announcement
generated criticisms from migrant
rights advocates and caregivers
who said that the review should
respond not only to the needs of
Canadians but also uphold the
rights and welfare of the sector.
Temporary not temporary
“We should be treating
temporary foreign workers as
how we treat Canadians, instead
of exploiting them then disposing
of them,” said Connie Sorio,
coordinator for Migrant Justice
and Asian Partnerships, also with
Kairos Canada.
Speaking at the forum
Global Compact on Migration:
The effects of migrant caregivers in
Canada, Sorio pointed to the global
movement of workers driven by
deplorable conditions in sending
countries in terms of joblessness,
poverty and social injustices.
For instance, mining by
big Canadian firms in the Philippines
has resulted to displacements
of communities whose mothers
choose overseas work as one of the
very limited options. She said some
6,000 Filipinos leave the country
daily to work abroad.
Recruitment to Canada
remains robust, as the promise
of obtaining a permanent status
continues to lure Filipino workers.
Caregivers from sending countries
like the Philippines fill the gap in
Canada’s lacking national childcare
and deficient elderly care, according
to Sorio.
This is why the job
remains a permanent necessity in
the Canadian labor market and has
survived more than six decades of
unrelenting changes.
Evolving
Canada’s
caregiver
program has survived revisions over
the years since it was introduced in
the 1950s, through the Caribbean
Domestic Scheme.
The earlier program
however was borne by Canada’s
hiring of migrant women from
the British and Western European
countries who settled in Canada
permanently in the early 20th
century. As they were British
subjects, they arrived with full
citizenship status in Canada.
The switch to temporary
status came when Canada started
recruiting from southern regions,
mostly racialized women. These
women arrived through the 1955
Caribbean Domestic Scheme.
This temporary status
persisted under the Non-immigrant
Employment
Authorization
Schemes beginning in the 1970s
where caregivers came to Canada
without access to permanent
residence.
The
program
again
welcomed permanent status after,
this time, concerted activism by
migrant caregivers. This spelled
completion of two years of live-in
employment through the Foreign
Domestics Movement, which
would later become the infamous
Live-in Caregiver Program.
Further changes in 2014
removed the “live-in” requirement,
and also created the two pilot
programs, which, critics said
has made it more restrictive for
caregivers to obtain permanent
status in Canada.
Burden
Migrante reiterated its
call for the removal of the caps
that allow only 2,750 permanent
resident applications in each of the
pilots.
“As a result of the caps,
our caregivers are pressured to
remain working under abusive
conditions in order to put the time in
as quickly as possible,” said Cynthia
Palmaria of Migrante Alberta.
Under
the
current
program, caregivers may apply
for permanent residence after
completing two years of care work.
When they fill up at any time during
the year, the caps hinder other
eligible caregivers from obtaining
their PR as their applications are
processed the following intake year.
The group is also
proposing the repeal of the rule
that has denied status to many
applicants whose family members
have mental or physical disability,
for fear that allowing them into the
country will “burden” public funds.