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In keeping with the country's motto, "Kalusugan, kaisipan, at kapakanan ng bawat bata ating tutukan! DepEd's NCM will encompass four categories of children's rights, including protection, participation, development, and survival rights. Every November, the National Children's Month Act is observed to honor the passage of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Giving Filipino children access to a healthy environment, a quality education, and healthcare is the goal of this month-long celebration. The national hero of the Philippines, Dr. Jose Rizal, famously declared that young are the country's future and that raising children is essential to improving the next generation.

 

            Filipinos are encouraged to participate in this initiative during National Children's Month. Children should have their own rights because they are unique persons. Furthermore, everyone should have access to these rights, not just people with high socioeconomic position. To identify children as the most valuable resource in the country assets, highlighting the significance of their function within the Filipino family, and Philippine culture. It depicts a representation of a child's rights as an individual, a member of a family, and a community obligations that are appropriate for their age and developmental stage. Children have a right to be alive, promote awareness of their rights and the value of putting laws into place to look out for and protect them. Filipinos are encouraged to participate in this initiative during National Children's Month.

 

            Every child has the right to an education that is capable of meeting his or her needs and to the development of the skills necessary to increase their capacity for self-and other-serving service. Each child has the right to develop into a free individual in a setting of harmony, tolerance, and fraternity for all people, with the commitment to do his part to contribute to the creation of a better world. According to established medical terminology, every child has the right to a healthy birth because they are born with the dignity and value of other human beings. Every child has the right to be protected from exploitation, harmful influences, risks, and other conditions or circumstances that are detrimental to his physical, mental, emotional, social, and moral development. Future child development is influenced by family, society, and political leadership.

 

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