Policy, purpose, and guiding state objectives
- Executive Order No. 376 declares it to be State policy to promote the well-being and total development of children and the youth.
- Executive Order No. 376 requires protection of children and youth from exploitation, abuse, improper influence, hazards, and other circumstances prejudicial to their physical, mental, emotional, social, and moral development.
- Executive Order No. 376 anchors the directive in the protective and rehabilitative mandate under Republic Act No. 7610, approved on June 17, 1992, for children gravely threatened or endangered by circumstances affecting survival and normal development.
Authorized center: what DSWD may do
- Executive Order No. 376 authorizes DSWD to establish a Skills Training Center for Street Children and Disabled Children.
- Executive Order No. 376 authorizes DSWD to manage the Skills Training Center.
- Executive Order No. 376 authorizes DSWD to operate the Skills Training Center.
- Executive Order No. 376 places the authorized Skills Training Center at Elsie Gaches Village.
Location, underlying property, and donation conditions
- Executive Order No. 376 identifies the relevant property as Lot No. 1996 of the Muntinlupa Estate Subdivision, located in Barrio Muntinlupa, Rizal (now Muntinlupa City).
- Executive Order No. 376 specifies the property area as sixteen (16) hectares, more or less, including all buildings and improvements thereon.
- Executive Order No. 376 recognizes that the property was donated by Mr. Samuel F. Gaches to the Commonwealth of the Philippines (Republic of the Philippines) on December 19, 1940.
- Executive Order No. 376 states that the donation was made subject to conditions that the property shall be used for the exclusive benefit of the Commonwealth as a hospital site for crippled children and a home for the poor in their old age, or for any other purposes of the same nature as the President of the Philippines may determine.
Participation with NGOs: required involvement
- Executive Order No. 376 requires that the establishment, management, and operation of the Skills Training Center be carried out with the participation and involvement of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).
- Executive Order No. 376 ties the NGO participation to the authorized Skills Training Center at Elsie Gaches Village for Street Children and Disabled Children.
Substantive coverage of beneficiaries
- Executive Order No. 376 covers Street Children as beneficiaries of the Skills Training Center.
- Executive Order No. 376 covers Disabled Children as beneficiaries of the Skills Training Center.
- Executive Order No. 376 frames the authorized training center within the broader protective and rehabilitative objectives for children threatened or endangered in their survival and normal development under Republic Act No. 7610.
Citations and operational cross-reference
- Executive Order No. 376 expressly cites Republic Act No. 7610 (approved June 17, 1992) as the legislative basis for child protection and rehabilitation policy invoked to justify the authorized center.