the 2024 National Children's Month Celebration
The 2024 National Children’s Month (NCM) celebration in the Philippines, with the theme “Break the Prevalence, End the Violence: Protecting Children, Creating a Safe Philippines,” focuses on addressing and combating violence against children. This theme underscores the urgency of ending child abuse, neglect, exploitation, and other forms of harm that children face in society. It also emphasizes the need for a collective effort from various sectors of society—government, communities, and families—to ensure a safer environment for children to grow, learn, and thrive. In celebration of the 32nd National Children’s Month (NCM) this November, the Council for the Welfare of Children (CWC), an attached agency of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), announced that this year’s event is focused on advocating to end all forms of violence against children. In the DSWD Thursday Media Forum on October 31, CWC executive director Undersecretary Angelo Tapales told...