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Enabling the Disabled

A Second Home: Mandaluyong City's Person with Disabilities Affairs Division

Elyzabeth Cureg & Don Jeffery Quebral

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Mandaluyong is a pioneer in the implementation of programs for PWDs. The Disabled Persons Affairs Division (DPAD) was established in 1998, more than a decade early than RA 10070. Later DPAD was renamed Persons with Disabilities Affairs Division (PDAD). Its current Chief has been with the city government for 16 years. Though not a PWD, her engagement in the sector is reflected in her background (Special Education graduate degree, member of the Society of Wheelchair Professionals, sign language interpreter). PDAD has 9 other employees, four of whom are PWDs. Only five hold permanent appointments (SG 1 to 3) though the division supposedly has 19 plantilla positions.

Nevertheless, PDAD is able to carry out programs in six areas - education, employment and livelihood, research, advocacy, sports and sociocultural, and community-based engagement. Some of these programs have earned citations from different local and international institutions. Among some of its notable programs are the  summer sports clinic for children with disabilities (CWD), CWD Drum and Lyre, CWD Angels or Mandaluyong Silence Movers, wheelchair customization, and job-matching/referral system.

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