Guv assures equal breaks for Negrense women

By Dolly Yasa

 

BACOLOD City – Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson assured that Negrense women will always have a fighting chance and shall be treated without prejudice under his watch.

Lacson together with the Provincial Council for Women, and Provincial Committee Against Trafficking, Child Pornography and Violence against Women and Children (VAWC) led the opening of the 18-Day Campaign to End Violence Against Women in a program held at the Capitol Social Hall.

“Society can never be really progressive until the rights of women are rightfully accorded the import and value it deserves,” the governor said.

Lacson also said that the Provincial Capitol will be lighted orange to signify that the entire province is one with the international movement to end VAW.

Meanwhile, the Provincial Capitol Committee on Decorum and Investigation chaired by Atty. Julie Ann Bedrio took their oaths of office before Lacson during the program.

Dawn Marie Castro, a member of PILIPINA National Council, gave a briefing on the “Bantay Bastos” Campaign.

The governor also turned over P500,000 to the Negros Occidental Girls Scouts Council for their various programs and projects in the province.

Also present in the activity were Negros Occidental Board Members Juvy Pepello and Rita Gatuslao, Provincial Administrator Rayfrando Diaz, Provincial Legal Officer Alberto Nellas Jr., Executive Assistant to the Governor and PIO Head Charina Magallanes-Tan, Executive Assistant to the Governor and Provincial Gender and Development (GAD) Action Officer Marie June Castro, Provincial Council for Women Chair Andrea Lizares-Si, Fr. Chris Gonzales, Director of the Social Action Commission of the Diocese of Bacolod; and Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office Head Merle Garcia, among others.

The activity was themed, “VAW-free Community Starts With me.”