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Four gov't agencies team up for Bright Child project
by R. Nessia
Dumaguete City (30 June 2005) -- The Department of Health, Department of Social Welfare and Development, Department of Education and the Department of Interior and Local Government have joined hands with the Council for the Welfare of Children to push the Bright Child campaign and implement it in barangays nationwide.

Bright Child is an umbrella that unifies all Early Childhood Care and Development initiatives in the country.

This multi-agency projects needs supportive community to raise healthy, mentally alert, physically able, happy and intelligent Filipino children.

According to Rose Camero, Senior Social Worker of the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office in Negros Oriental, the Bright Child program has been incorporated in the long-term framework for children for 25 years dubbed as Child 21.

The Bright Child project started in 2003 and is one of the bases in coming up with a child-friendly society.

In the province, day care workers are already carrying out the campaign by focusing on the rights of children during their interaction with the day care children here.

As of 2004, there are 909 day care workers and 904 day care centers across the province, reports Provincial Social Welfare and Development Officer Alicia Lagarde.

The Bright Child campaign boosts the Child 21 program, which Camero says is "a legacy that we will leave for Filipino children of the 21st century to prepare them to face the challenges of the new millennium." (PIA)

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