AWH attended the Expanded Local Health Board meeting on August 31, 2018 held at the Alfonso Muincipal Hall headed by Mayor Varias and Dr. Manzo. Issues discussed were the following: 1. Voluntary Blood Council 2. Expanded Local Health Board 3. Municipal Nutrition Council 4. Alfonso Task Force on Smoking 5. Local Rabies Control 6. TB (tuberculosis) Infection Control 7. Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD), HIV and AIDS Area of high TB cases were in barangay Pajo, Taiwanak Ibaba and Upli. As of the 2nd quarter 70 TB cases were reported. 9 were children. Most of the patients were male. The health department gives free medical treatment and are strictly monitored. Dr. … Continue reading
A Local Council for Protection of Children (LCPC) meeting was held on June 20, 2017 at Alfonso Mayor Varias’ office. 1. Alfonso SPED (SPECIAL EDUCATION) Center AWH relayed about the following suggestions we offered to them before: assistance to implement on-line therapy assistance to hire a part time driver to take the para-teacher to the homes of the disabled children we can assist in the P50,000 training fee for more para-teachers where the trainer can come to the SPED Center provide supplements B6 & D3 to pregnant women & to autistic & intellectually disabled children Among the choices above Gina of DSWD said they are interested if we can assist … Continue reading
The members of LCPC consist of councilors from the municipality of Alfonso, Cavite, DSWD Alfonso, municipal health official, municipal planning department, local national statistics office, local police officers, NGO’s, students and pastors, had a monthly meeting on March 9th, 2015. AWH joined LCPC in January 2015.DSWD and NSO recognized AWH efforts of helping indigents in barangay Mangas II residents procure birth certificates in the previous month, as well as repairing the roof of and donation of a steel bunk bed to the youth counseling center.Since protection of LCPC extends to women and elderlies, it was discussed to set the date for “Women’s Empowerment Day” to be on March 24th and … Continue reading