Attendees to the regular RGADC XII Virtual Café, Café Juana doing the Serye sa Dose web talk were treated to not just one but two lady Regional Directors who shared their life stories as part of the celebration of the National Women’s Month on March 15, 2021 via the Zoom and Facebook live platform.
Both the lady RDs were the inspirational speakers who imparted their colorful career journey as they served their community in various capacities.
DILG XII celebrated this year’s women’s month activity with a twist on March 8, through its Café Juana, a virtual and real coffee shop which form part of this year’s showcase of women empowerment. The event started with a ceremonial cutting of ribbon and showcasing Café Juana.
The brick-and-lumber mock-up, complete with a low center table and some cushioned lounge chairs, offered a comfortable and cozy corner for both the attendees at the DILG XII Conference Room and online. A makeshift kitchen was built for the purpose to achieve the full coffee shop setting.
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) XII is set to formally receive its bronze award for exemplary performance in human resource management from the Civil Service Commission XII this March.
“To recognize the efforts of the Office, especially the Human Resource Team and committee members who contributed to this success, we are pleased to have a regional awarding ceremony this March 2021,” CSC XII Regional Director Resurreccion P. Pueyo stated through a letter to DILG XII Regional Director Josephine Cabrido-Leysa, CESO III early this year as the Commission Director confirms to confer the PRIME-HRM Bronze Award to the Department.
In preparation for the CY 2021 National Women’s Month Celebration (NWMC) with a theme “We Make Change Work for Women: Juana Laban sa Pandemya: Kaya!”, the Regional Gender and Development Committee (RGADC) XII conducted its 1st Quarter Meeting via zoom video conference recently.
RGADC XII Chairperson/ DILG XII Regional Director, Josephine Cabrido- Leysa, CESO III, highlighted a quote from Purnina Mane which states, “A world full of empowered women isn’t one where men are marginalized. It’s a world where everyone thrives.”
“In vain have you acquired knowledge if you have not imparted it to others.”
These are the words written centuries ago, around 900 BC as a commentary on the Book of Deuteronomy.
Fast forward to the first few weeks of 2021, just in time for the setting of direction for the whole of DILG XII and the same comment about the Book of Deuteronomy was also posed by RD Josephine Cabrido-Leysa, CESO III to fellow RD Julian Jovian Ingeniero of Region VI.
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