Republic of the Philippines
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Region VIII
DIVISION OF CATBALOGAN CITY
April
23, 2018
DIVISION MEMORANDUM
No. 138 s. 2018
PRESS RELEASE ON THE “EskweLABAN Sa Sigarilyo” NATIONWIDE
TO: Public School District Supervisors
Public & Private Elementary/Secondary School Heads, Teachers and
All others Concerned
1. Attached is a press release dated April 5, 2018 from Hon. Leonor Magtolis
Briones, Secretary, Department of Education, to set roll-out on “EskweLA Ban sa Sigarilyo” nationwide.
2. Details of the program are stipulated in the same press release.
3. For information and compliance.
CRISTITO A. ECO, CESO VI Schools Division Superintendent
For the Schools Division Superintendent:
FRANCIS ANGELO S. GELERA
Assistant
Schools Division Superintendent
Republic of the Philippines
department of Education
REGIONAL OFFICE NO. VIII (EASTERN VISAYAS)
Government
Center, Candahug, Palo, Leyte
MEMORANDUM
TO: Schools
Division Superintendents
All Others Concerned
FROM: RAM1R B. UYT1CO, Ed.D., CESO IV
OIC-Regional Director
SUBJECT: PRESS RELEASE ON THE “EskweLA BAN Sa Sigarilyo’
NATIONWIDE
DATE: April 14( 2018
1. Attached is a press release dated April 5, 2018 from Hon. Leonor Magtolis Briones,
Secretary, Department of Education, to set roll-out on “EskweLA Ban sa Sigarilyo” nationwide.
2. Details of the program are stipulated in the attached press release.
3. Immediate
dissemination of this Memorandum is desired.
DEPARTMENT
OF EDUCATION | OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
PRESSRELEASE
DepEd set to roll out EskweLA BAN sa Sigarilyo nationwide
PASIG CITY, April 5, 2018 — Beginning next school year,- all schools /nationwide-—— are expected to be part of EskweLA BAN sa Sigarilyo, an initiative that aims to
strengthen the implementation of the Department of Education’s (DepEd) tobacco control policy.
As the current school year draws to a close,
DepEd is also culminating its
EskweLA BAN sa Sigarilyo Project, a three-year project in partnership
with the Tobacco-Free Kids Action Fund. Implemented in select
schools in the cities of Pasig and Makati, and the provinces of
Batangas, Bulacan, Bataan, and
Pampanga, the project developed and pilot-tested implementation
mechanisms aimed to build the capacity of DepEd personnel in
effectively carrying out the Department’s tobacco control policy.
“The EskweLA BAN sa Sigarilyo Project
ends in its pilot-testing phase, and its
components will be adapted by DepEd for roll-out nationwide,”
Undersecretary for
Legal Affairs Alberto Muyot, who has also served as the director of the
project,
shared.
Muyot is pretaining to the monitoring and reporting tools, training manuals, and school-based campaign materials which were developed by the project to support schools in their implementation of the comprehensive tobacco control policy.
A ceremonial turnover of these materials was held on March 23, 2018 at DepEd Central Office, Pasig City.
The project brand EskweLA BAN sa Sigarilyo is
a play on the Filipino words eskwela, laban, and eskwela ban to communicate
that schools {eskwela), through the school’s bans (eskwela ban), are on a
collective fight (laban) against tobacco (sigarilyo). Intended to carry two meanings –
the school’s bans on cigarettes or the school’s fight against tobacco – EskweLA BAN
sa Sigarilyo aims to increase public awareness of the bans stipulated in DepEd
Order No. 48, s. 2016 (DO 48, s. 2016) or the Policy and Guidelines on
Comprehensive Tobacco Control, and to build the capacity of schools,
through their respective Child Protection Committees, to effectively
take a stand against tobacco by implementing the strategies
enumerated in the Order.
DO 48, s. 2016 mandates the Child Protection
Committee, which has already been
set up in all schools since 2012 and chaired by the Principal, to monitor
compliance with and report violations of various tobacco control policies
such as
(1) bans on smoking in schools; (2) bans on the sale and advertisement of tobacco products within the 100-meter perimeter of schools, and (3) bans on receiving sponsorships from the tobacco industry and other unnecessary interactions with the tobacco industry.
The same DO further identified strategies for
the effective implementation of the policy including: (1)
information, education, and communication, (2) cessation interventions,
(3) collaborations, partnerships and linkages, (4)
capacity building, and (5) reporting and monitoring.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION | OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
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