BUTUAN CITY- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-served sectors took the limelight in the illuminated balangay float entry of the DSWD-Caraga in the Lamdag Float Competition, one of the highlights in Butuan City’s Balangay Festival celebration on May 19, 2018.
The Persons with Disability (PWD), elderly, Poor (beneficiaries of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino and Sustainable Livelihood Program), women, children, indigenous peoples (IPs), etc. were represented during the event as they were showcased in the illuminated balangay float of the Field Office that was paraded in the heart of city on the night of the festival.
OIC Regional Director Mita Chuchi Gupana-Lim said that the Field Office welcomed the invitation of the city’s local government unit, and expressed that it is honored and excited to have joined because it has become a venue to intensify its advocacy drive on the DSWD’s service brand-Ang DSWD ay May Malasakit.
“DSWD-Caraga’s float portrayed the agency as a balangay boat carrying in its journey the served sectors,” said Lim.
“It also showcases that these sectors enjoy the programs and services of the government through DSWD in a journey traversed together towards the fulfillment of the Department’s vision that all Filipinos are free from hunger and poverty, have equal access to opportunities, enabled by a fair, just, and peaceful society,” she added.
The Field Office is one of the 14 agencies/organizations/institutions who participated the said contest. The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Engineering Office, Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG)-13, and Butuan City Water District claimed the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd awards, respectively.
Balangay Festival sails on its 30th year with the theme, “Reclaiming Butuan’s Cultural Legacy”. ###
