PWD party list donates three wheelchairs for Baguio Youth

Christmas will come early for three young and qualified Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) in the Summer Capital.

Rep. Rowena Guanzon of the P3PWD Party List, thru the Rotary Club of Baguio (RCB), donated three pediatric wheelchairs to the city government, July 25, during flag raising rites at City Hall.

The donations were received by city officials led by Mayor Benjamin Magalong including PWD Affairs Office (PDAO)-Baguio head Samuel Aquino.

In a letter to the Mayor, July 20, RCB president Francis Ali Morales said that its past president Judge Mia Joy Oallares-Cawed got in touch with Ellen Dayag of the City Social Welfare and Development Office  (CSWDO) for the process of selecting the most qualified PWD children who will be given the wheelchairs.

Cawed was then referred to Aquino who suggested that the turn-over of wheelchairs be done during the July 25 flag-raising rites at City Hall.

Both CSWDO head Luz Bulayungan and Aquino are very grateful for the donations and hoping that this noble gesture of the P3PWD Party List and RCB will encourage other organizations to follow suit since many PWDs are in need of wheelchairs which are quite costly.

Aquino said his office is currently choosing three young and deserving PWDs from indigent families who will be given the wheelchairs.

He also expressed his elation that a PWD organization has finally succeeded in entering the Party List system of Congress since this will give a voice to the country’s PWDs.

Aquino is hoping that the P3PWD Party List will include PDAO and other PWD organizations in the process of formulating Bills in Congress that will benefit those in the PWD sector. 

Also present during the flag-raising activity was RCB guest, Rotary International District 3730 Governor Yu Dai Bong of Rotary Club of Wonju, South Korea. – Gaby B. Keith