PROCLAMATION NO. 2, January 12, 1962

DECLARING THE PERIOD FROM FEBRUARY 4 TO 10, 1962, AS “AID TO THE BLIND AND HANDICAPPED WEEK”

Presidential Proclamations January 12, 1962
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WHEREAS, section 10(a) of Republic Act No. 1179
authorizes the President of the Philippines to set aside an annual fund-raising
week to be known as “Aid to the Blind and Handicapped Week,” the money realized
therefrom to constitute a trust fund called the “Blind and Handicapped Fund”
under the control and administration of the Social Welfare Administrator;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Diosdado Macapagal, President
of the Philippines, do hereby declare the period from February 4 to 10, 1962,
as “Aid to the Blind and Handicapped Week,” during which the Social Welfare
Administration shall conduct a campaign for funds for the blind and other
handicapped persons.

I call upon all citizens and residents of this
country, as well as all civic-spirited organizations and associations, to
support this campaign.

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 12th day of
January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the sixteenth.

DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL
President of the Philippines

By the President:

AMELITO R. MUTUC
Executive Secretary

 

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