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AT A GLANCE:
Every Filipino citizen shall be automatically included into the National Health Insurance Program (NHIP). (Section 5, R.A. No. 11223)
Indigenous people shall have the right to special measures for the immediate, effective and continuing improvement of their economic and social conditions, including in the areas of employment, vocational training and retraining, housing, sanitation, health and social security. (Section 25 of R.A. No. 8371)
By virtue of the Proclamation No. 76, series of 1936, August 17 to 24 of every year is declared as “Made in the Philippines Products Week”.
“Made in the Philippines Product Week” aims to maintain the spirit of cultivating and encouraging home industries to be maintained to mark the rise of a vigorous and healthy spirit of economic progressiveness.
Filipinos are requested to observe “Made in the Philippines Product Week” in which products of the Philippines will be used by them for their home and personal needs and prioritize Philippine products.
The proclamation provides that “the Philippines is richly endowed with the precious gifts of nature. We have here an abundance of the basic materials of industry. To a certain extent we have begun to avail ourselves of these natural facilities and advantages for industrial growth, but our local industries are still comparatively few and relatively undeveloped. Most of them remain in their earlier stages of growth. In the meantime, many of our domestic needs that could be fully supplied with local products have to be provided for with considerable importations of foreign articles. In order to give the necessary encouragement and stimulus to domestic industries, the people of this country should patronize Philippine products.”
The law says:
“I, therefore, proclaim the week from August seventeenth to August twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirty-three to be ‘Made-in-the-Philippines Products Week’ and I hereby request all the people of these islands to observe it as a week in which products of the Philippines will be used by them for their home and personal needs. I hope this spirit of cultivating and encouraging home industries will be maintained all the coming years so that it will mark the rise in this country of a vigorous and healthy spirit of economic progressiveness.”
Whereas the annual observance of the “Made-in-the-Philippines Products Week” during the last three years has the people of this country, and has given impetus to the development of native industries;
Now, therefore, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, do hereby designate and proclaim the week from August seventeenth to twenty-third, of each year, as “Made-in-the-Philippines Products Week,” and urge all the people of this country to observe it accordingly. (Proclamation No. 76, series of 1936)
Since the issuance of Proclamation No. 76, it has paved the way for economic progress of the country through the cultivation of Philippine-made products as an essential element of nationalism and productivity.
Read also: National Health Insurance Month, under Proclamation N. 1400, series of 2007
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