Mindanaotoday.com | DOLE lauds CDO village for anti-child labor ordinance
By: Nef Luczon
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) 10 (Northern Mindanao) hailed the barangay government of Cugman in this city for establishing an anti-child labor ordinance.
Emmanuel Toledo, DOLE-10 Cagayan de Oro City Field Office chief, said Barangay Cugman Ordinance 1, passed on May 16 this year, affirms the community’s support for the agency’s Child Labor Prevention and Elimination Program.
“To prevent and eliminate child laborers in the city, Barangay Cugman’s ordinance is the ideal example to be emulated by other villages,” Toledo said in a statement Friday.
Ma. Elsie Jandayan, the barangay council’s Family, Women’s, and Education Committee chairperson, authored the measure: “Ordinance Providing for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor and Affording Stronger Protection for the Working Child against Child Abuse, Exploitation, and Discrimination in the Entire Barangay of Cugman.”
Barangay Cugman chairperson Wendelyn Escobia said it was urgent and necessary to localize the measure after observing that child laborers are prevalent in their barangay.
Under the ordinance, the Barangay Council for the Protection of Children was given the authority to fully enforce the measure.
“This is a result of our collaborative efforts to provide a brighter future for our children. I hope that all other barangays will replicate our ordinance to gradually eradicate child labor in the city,” Escobia said in the vernacular. (PNA)
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