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BY MAE SINGUAY
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BACOLOD City – Councilor Ricardo Tan urged Mayor Evelio Leonardia to give teeth to City Ordinance No. 146, Series of 1995, an ordinance regulating mendicancy.
Tan said the City Mayor’s Office may task the Department of Social Services and Development (DSSD) to come up with viable programs and activities that would free the city’s streets of mendicants.
He also stressed the importance of providing the beggars with opportunities to earn a living with dignity.
Section 9 of City Ordinance No. 146 provides for an integrated network of services, which is to be spearheaded by the DSSD, together with other public and private establishments, institutions or nongovernment organizations, stressed Tan.
Likewise, the ordinance offers an “integrated development package” which includes programs to comprehensively address the mendicancy problem such:
* preventive services that shall control and forestall the occurrence of situations identified as contributory to mendicancy such as early family intervention; transfer of positive values within the family setting; encouraging preschoolers to enroll in daycare centers; teaching basic values and Christian principles from the elementary to high school level; and strengthening family structures
* rehabilitative services which provide environmental or socioeconomic conditions for the enjoyment of a satisfactory equality of life before formation of undesirable values among children and minors; formulation of programs for out-of-school youth; organizing wholesome programs and activities at the barangay level; providing access to capital for livelihood endeavors, as well as access to public education
* interceptive services which direct the growth potentials and productive energy of children, youth and adults to offset the effects of factors contributing to mendicancy, such as access to skills training, livelihood and income-generating activities, among others./PN
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