TAGUM CITY, Davao del Norte -- Another Tagumpay harvest goes to the city government of Tagum as its "Start Young" Program recently reaped the Gawad Edukampyon for Early Childhood Care and Development Award under the Component Cities Category.
During the Gawad Edukampyon for Local Governance Awarding Ceremony, Tagum City was acknowledged for its intensified implementation of "Start Young" - the city's blueprint in delivering an expansive and multi-sectoral approach on championing early childhood programs.
No less than Mayor Allan L. Rellon received the award at the Novotel Manila in Quezon City last June 3, 2022.
Tagum City's viable advocacy – through the initiative of the LGU's Early Childhood Care and Development Council (ECCDC) and the leadership of Mayor Allan L. Rellon – enabled the boundless support for the Tagumenyo children by forming and empowering alliances of the same cause, as well as by providing resources that ensure the children's health and nutrition, safety, and education.
Beginning the empowerment of its people by investing in the young ones, the Start Young program under the Rellon governance was able to push forward the conversion of Daycare Teachers to Child Development Teachers, updating their functions and incentives; the establishment of Children's Festival in 2019 highlighting children's roles, rights, skills and abilities; the implementation of the brainchild donation drive, "Bulilit Tabang Skwela," supplying additional learning resources at the plight of the pandemic; and the installation of "Bulilit Lababo" across different barangays ensuring sanitization while transacting at learning centers, among others.
