Municipal Council on the Protection of Children (MCPC)
To create an environment where children could grow to their full potential at every stage of their development, the Municipal Council on the Protection of Children (MCPC) here has been implementing innovative projects for children.
The MCPC’s “child strategies” include the legislation of ordinances to ensure the rights of children, the allotment of a budget for children’s activities, and the setting up of interventions where the interest of the child is given first priority.
Mayor and concurrent MCPC chair Jesse Concepcion said these child strategies are being implemented by the 18 barangays of Mariveles, which have been functioning Barangay Councils for the Protection of Children (BCPC).
Concepcion said the “TB in Children Program” had 200 children, below 10 years old, who are at risk of having tuberculosis as its beneficiaries.
The free newborn screening has for its theme “Agap sa Kinabukasan at Kalusugan, Laya ng Bagong Silang” where the first 30 children born on October 1, 2010 and onwards availed of free newborn screening, he said.
The mayor also said the nutritional status of severely malnourished children is being checked through the daily feeding of nutritious snacks and fortified foods, under the “Tutok Malnoris Program,” which rehabilitated 23 pupils from being severely underweight to having normal weight, and 11 kids from being severely underweight to being underweight.