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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 610, September 8, 1969 ]

DECLARING SEPTEMBER 1 TO 7 EVERY YEAR AS SOCIAL WELFARE WEEK.

WHEREAS, the nation faces far-reaching social and economic changes due to population and other pressures and technological advances;

WHEREAS, traditional institutions and approaches cannot fully cope with the problems brought about by these changes;

WHEREAS, efforts at social development must go hand in hand with efforts at economic development coupled with social justice for full human development and national progress; and

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare the period from September 1 to 7 of every year commencing in 1969, as SOCIAL WELFARE WEEK. I call upon all social workers and others engaged in social-economic development to redouble their efforts to create a society that attains the full economic and social development of our people* I call upon all citizens to support this effort in every way possible and to celebrate the Week in ways most appropriate to the occasion.1aшphi1

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 8th, day of Sept., in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-nine.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS

By the President:

(Sgd.) ERNESTO M. MACEDA
Executive Secretary

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