NAPC rallies more action vs poverty

MANILA -- The National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) continues the mobilization of all sectors in helping address poverty nationwide.

NAPC will launch its Kilos Sambayanan (Kilos para sa Sampung Batayang Pangangailangan) campaign in Mindanao and the Visayas after doing so in Manila this year to further promote mass movement against poverty, said the agency's technical officer Joanna Lerio.

“We're campaigning for all sectors' convergence on addressing poverty issues and concerns," she said.

She said NAPC will hold the Mindanao launch from Oct. 25 to 27 this year in Davao.

NAPC will launch Kilos Sambayanan in the Visayas afterwards, she added.

"Our campaign includes promoting all sectors' unity and commitment in meeting the 10 basic needs of people, particularly the poor," she said.

According to NAPC, those needs are food and land reform, water, shelter, work, education, health, social protection,

healthy environment, peace and participation.

“It is the right of all Filipinos not to be hungry and it is the right of every child not to grow homeless," NAPC cited its Lead Convenor Sec. Liza Maza as saying during a Kilos Sambayanan forum in Cainta this month.

Maza then also cited need for public and private sectors' active engagement in addressing poverty, said NAPC.

NAPC came up with Kilos Sambayanan after holding multistakeholder consultations during the National Anti-Poverty Summit last year, Lerio said. PNA