DSWD puts up child, women-friendly evacuation centers 5 SHARES Share it! The establishment of child and women-friendly spaces is in accordance to Republic Act. Under RA 10821, child-friendly spaces offer activities, such as psychosocial counseling, games, educational activities, art therapy sessions, and supplementary feeding, among others. It is currently doing field visits to the affected families in different evacuation centers throughout the province of Cagayan Valley to assess the condition of evacuees and the evacuation centers where they are staying. They also pledged to help in establishing child-friendly spaces in the evacuation centers.

Source: Manila Bulletin September 19, 2018 07:30 UTC