Dagupan day-care centers has 1,700 new graduates
THE graduation program for the city’s 43 day-care centers was an emotional affair for Mayor Belen Fernandez.
Addressing the more than 1,700 pupils that graduated from the city’s 43 day care centers on March 20 during a mass recognition rite at the CSI Stadia, she recalled how she started helping the day care centers in the 1980s when she was still a businesswoman.
Former city social welfare officer Elsa Santillan had asked her to support the day care centers of Dagupan which were in great need of financial assistance and she readily agreed.
While she continued supporting the day care centers and their teachers until she became a councilor then vice mayor, she lamented that her efforts were never acknowledged by the previous administration.
Fernandez said she was never invited to graduation rites even in her capacity as vice mayor but this did not deter her from continuing her commitment to support the day-care centers.
Presently, the CSI Group of Companies, which she heads, continues to help the day care centers.
Under her stewardship, the day care centers were finally accredited by the Department of Social Welfare and Development Office and the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF).
She assured the young Dagupeños and their parents that education is her administration’s number one advocacy.
After the ceremony, the kids were given free meals while their parents received grocery packs as graduation gifts from the mayor and the CSI Group of Companies. (CIO)
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