New DSWD chief honors Ulirang Ina awardees

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Acting Secretary Virginia Orogo paid homage to the outstanding mothers conferred the Ulirang Ina Award 2018.

The honored mothers were models to other families as providers of steadfast support and devotion to strengthen Filipino values and family ties, Orogo said.

The awards was organized by the Ulirang Ina Ama Awards Foundation Inc. and was held at the Manila Hotel last May 13 to recognize mothers who are not only capable of managing their households, but are also excelling in their respective fields in the law and judiciary, governance and public service, medicine and allied sciences, law enforcement, business and industry, education, and socio-civic and religious sectors.

Among the Ulirang Ina 2018 Awardees are Virginia PerezDavide, former DSWD executive Alicia Dela Rosa-Bala, Negros Occidental provincial planning and development officer Lina Sanogal, and Ana Del Barrio Dayao for the Government Service sector; Ruth Carpio, Jasmin Felix, newspaper executive Lyne Abanilla, Nadele Salalac, and Azucena Matas for the Socio-civic sector; and Estela Canalita for the education sector.

“The family is the basic unit of our society. Strong families make a strong community, but the secret of a strong family is the presence of a mother, nanay, mamang or

inay,” Orogo said in her keynote speech, her first public address after her appointment as acting DSWD secretary by President Rodrigo Duterte last week.

“Gone are the days when a mother’s numerous roles are boxed within the four corners of the home. Many of us are forerunners in different fields such as the executive, judiciary, development, health, transport, entrepreneurship, clerical, and other productive endeavours which each one of us might be in,” she said.