Bacolod To Celebrate 3RD Anti-Mendicancy Week on August 15

    Bacolod City will celebrate its 3^rd Anti-Mendicancy Consciousness Week on August 15-19, 2005 with the theme “Mendicants Today, Good Citizens Tomorrow.”
     Mayor Evelio R. Leonardia and City Council Committee on Social Services Chairman Ana Marie Palermo will distribute cash gifts to 54 beneficiaries/recipients of the Back-to- School program of the Anti-Mendicancy Task Force.
    The Task Force will embark in an information dissemination campaign on the fines and penalties for any violation of City Ordinance 146 or the Anti- Mendicancy Law. Any individual caught giving alms to a mendicant will be fined accordingly.
     In compliance with P.D. No. 1563, an act establishing an Integrated System which controls and eradicates mendicancy, the city by way of City Ordinance 146 created the integrated program to regulate mendicancy, providing penalties and appropriate funds.
     The week long activities include the following;
     Aug. 15, 2:00pm – Socialization for parents/children including the advocacy on the child domestic labor at the Liga ng mga Barangay.
     Aug. 16, 8:30 am – Skills training for children at City Health compound
     Aug. 17, 1:30-4:30 pm – Medical Services
     Aug. 18, 2:00 pm – Passage of the City Ordinance/SP Resolution for the rehabilitation of the Home for the Blind families.
     Aug. 19, Field trip with Bacolod First Lady Elsa Leonardia to Brgy. Alangilan. (CMO-PIO)

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