The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office VI established an Adoption help Desk at Iloilo and Bacolod City SM Branches.
“Adoption is a great experience. Once you do it, you won’t stop,” said Reinalyn Cabag, an adoptive parent of one child and a foster parent to three kids. Cabag is also an office of the Panay Adoptive Parents Association.
Cabag was one of the adoptive parents who manned the adoption help desk at SM City Iloilo.
For two days, it offered information materials regarding legal adoption and foster care to mall goers. There were DSWD staff and adoptive parents who answered inquiries.
This year’s theme is “Pagmamahal Palaganapin, Legal na Pag-aampon Ating Gawin! (Spread Unconditional Love through Legal Adoption),” which reiterates the call to ensure that orphaned, neglected, abandoned, and surrendered children are provided with the secure, permanent and loving homes which they deserve./dswd6