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Red Cross Batangas nagdaos ng training para
sa mga volunteers
NAGSILBING host sa ikalawang
pagkakataon ang lalawigan ng
Batangas sa Red Cross Action
Team (RCAT143) Skills Camp
na ginanap noong May 16-18 sa
Provincial Sports Complex.

Ito ay nilahukan ng 20
chapters na kinabibilangan ng
200 volunteers mula sa ibat-ibang
bahagi ng bansa.

Ayon
kay
Ronald
Generoso, Chapter Administrator
ng Red Cross Batangas Chapter,
layunin ng nasabing gawain na
mabigyan ng sapat na kasanayan
at madagdagan ang kapasidad na
taglay ng mga volunteers bago
magkaroon ng kalamidad, habang
may kalamidad at pagkatapos ng
kalamidad.

Ilan sa mga pagsasanay
na isinagawa ay sa area
ng
water
and
sanitation,
emergency response operation
center management, disaster
management, safety services
tulad ng pagbibigay ng first aid
at ambulance operation skills
gayundin sa welfare services.

Dumalo din sa opening
ceremony
si
Christopher
Staines, Head of Country Office,
International Federation of Red
Cross.
Peace advocates condemn CPP-
NPA attack on community
By Jerome Carlo R. Paunan
QUEZON CITY -- Advocates
of Yes for Peace–Bayanihan
ng Bayan on Friday joined
Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito
G. Galvez, Jr. in condemning the
recent attack by about 30 members
of the New People’s Army on a
settlement of former armed rebels
who decided to forge peace with
government through local peace
talks earlier.
Ernesto
Angeles
Alcanzare, organizer of Yes for
Peace, said they are one with
Galvez in condemning the brazen
act of violence that caused the
death of two and wounded three
members of the Revolutionary
Proletarian Army–Alex Boncayao
Brigade–Tabara Padua Group.

“The
recent
attack
proves their hypocrisy and
duplicity, ala-‘Jeckyll and Hyde’
character. They shout-out one
thing and yet do everything to
make sure that their demands can
never be catered to by government
even if it is sincere in doing so,”
Alcanzare said.

“The People’s Agenda
for National and Progressive
Change that they crafted and
published through their exclusive
National People’s Summit at the
University of the Philippines
on June 29, 2016, declared a
15-Point Agenda for Change,
and among these, is their call to
reduce military expenditures (by
government) and channel savings
to economic development and
social services,” he added.

For his part, lawyer
Domingo B. Aldion, president
of the Department of Education
National Employees’ Union and
YFP-BB supporter, denounced
the “terrorist attack” and said
a reasonable part of the money
spent by government in the 50-
year conflict could have been
“better” used in increasing the
salaries and benefits of public
school teachers and non-teaching
personnel.

“They
(communists)
claim that they want peace but
their actions are not reflective
of what they shout in the
streets. Billions of pesos have
already been wasted in the local
communist
armed
conflict.
Billions of pesos that should have
been allocated for the increase
of teachers’ salaries, wages and
benefits, as well as non-teaching
personnel of DepEd and other
government
agencies
will
continue to be wasted if they do
not put an end to what they are
now doing to keep them from
being irrelevant and no longer
needed to pursue the interests of
the Filipino people.”

Brasette Espiritu, a
former regional officer of Alpha
Phi Omega and a peace advocate
questioned the flagrant act and
said it was also the CPP-NPA’s
way of taunting government
security forces in order to
intensify
offensive
military
operations.

“Do the NPAs and their
legal front organizations really
believe that the government can
reduce military expenditures and
channel savings to economic
development and social services
if the communists themselves
will not STOP killing people,
Sundan sa pahina 6..
Ronald Generoso, Chapter Administrator ng Red Cross Batangas Chapter
DepEd to broadcast networks:
Observe Child-Friendly Content
Standards
By Susan G. De Leon
QUEZON
CITY--The
Department
of
Education
(DepEd) expressed hope that
every broadcast network in
the country would observe
the Child-friendly Content
Standards (CFCS) recently
launched by the National
Council
for
Children’s
Television (NCCT).

In
a
statement,
DepEd Undersecretary for
Administration Alain
Del
Pascua said the set of standards
allows government agencies
and other stakeholders that are
involved in shaping the future
generations of Filipinos to be
in-step with the quick-paced
information revolution by
keeping Filipino values intact,
and ensuring that children gain
proper knowledge and are not
led astray by negative content

“DepEd and other
stakeholders
will
work
together to better prepare
Filipino learners to face
various societal issues in the
fast-changing modern world,”
Del Pascua said.

“We
hope
that
every broadcast network in
the country will religiously
bear in mind the required
15% allotment to children’s
programs and child-friendly
programs.” Del Pascua added.

Pursuant to Section 9
of Republic Act (RA) No. 8370
or the Children’s Television
Act, NCCT shall formulate and
promote CFCS which requires
broadcast television networks
to allocate a minimum of 15%
of their daily total airtime to
children’s programs and/or
child-friendly programs to be
shown during child-viewing
hours.

Based on the CFCS,
children’s television programs
shall be: educational or must
promote, protect, and develop
the child’s physical, emotional,
moral, spiritual, intellectual,
and social well-being; value-
laden or must foster and nurture
the positive value formation and
overall development of a child;
and age-appropriate or must
be suitable according to the
formative and developmental
stages of a child.

Television programs
not specifically designed for
viewing by children shall be
considered child-friendly only
if they meet the set criteria on
the theme, values, dialogue,
language, nutrition, sex and
nudity, violence, substance use,
gambling, and advertisements.

NCCT also considers
hours between 8:00 a.m. and
11:00 a.m., and/or between
2:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. to be
appropriate for children to
watch television, taking into
consideration other activities
necessary for their balanced
development.

Broadcast
networks
are given sufficient time to
comply with the minimum
15% allotment of the daily
total airtime to children’s
programs and/or child-friendly
programs.

From the date of
effectivity until December 31,
2019, the compliance to the
minimum 15% shall be on a
voluntary basis.

But in 2020, every
broadcast network shall have
at least five % compliance,
while at least 10% minimum
allotment should be attained in
2021.

By 2022, the required
15% of the total everyday
airtime for children’s programs
and/or child-friendly programs
shall be complied. (PIA
InfoComm/DepEd)