DAGUPAN CITY - City Administrator Vlad Mata has cited the role of women in building a home and a family while addressing the seminar on the Magna Carta of Women and Community-Based Alternative Parental Care held at the Edades Hall of the city museum in celebration of the Women’s Month last Thursday.

            “We build our own homes and to build a home, we need to have a family and women to complete it, “Mata told the members of the Kalipi Ng Liping Pilipino from various barangays who attended the seminar sponsored by the City Social Welfare and Development Office in partnership with the city government and the Bangus Festival Executive Committee 2011.

               City Social Welfare and Development Office Officer – In – Charge Leila Natividad said that the seminar sought to remind women of their rights, roles and importance as part and parcel of the family and community.

                 Wilma Coquia, focal person and head of the Adoption Resource and Referral Unit of  the Department of Social and Welfare Development Field Office 1 lectured on the Magna Carta of Women and Community-Based Alternative Parental Care. (CIO – Jeeboy Paragas)