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Press Release - Sponsorship Speech of Senator Cynthia A. Villar On The Welfareville Property Disposition Act of 2025

Mr. President, my fellow senators, I rise to sponsor and present Committee Report No. 448. This refers to The Welfareville Property Disposition Act of 2025, which seeks to amend Republic Act (RA) No. 5260, entitled "An Act Authorizing a Committee Composed of the Administrator of the Social Welfare Administration, the Auditor General and the Secretary of the Department of General Services to Sell the Welfareville Property Located in the Municipality of Mandaluyong, Province of Rizal, and for Other Purposes", enacted in 1968.

The Committee Report is an amendment by substitution of House Bill No. 428, taking into consideration House Bill No. 10015, both of which were authored by Representative Neptali "Boyet" Gonzales II (the second) of the Lone District of Mandaluyong City and refer to the disposition of the Welfareville Property in the City of Mandaluyong. The committee report seeks to rationalize the disposition of the Welfareville Property to generate proceeds dedicated to programs that advance the welfare of children, while ensuring its reasonable use by long-time residential occupants thereof.

In 1920, the Insular Government, through the efforts of Dr. Jose F. Fabella, who was then the Commissioner of the Office of the Public Welfare Commission (now known to us as the DSWD), purchased the Welfareville Compound from Phil Whitaker and Francisco B. Ortigas. The government reserved the property for the establishment of child welfare institutions and the improvement of child welfare services in the Philippines. Subsequently, the Philippines supported international movements that promoted children's rights and welfare, like the 1924 Declaration of the Rights of the Child adopted by the League of Nations. During this period, the government also championed social services, public health, education, and social justice initiatives that would later reflect with Welfareville.

The Welfareville property then emerged as a centralized institution dedicated to vulnerable children and those who were deemed to be at risk. It provided a safe and nurturing environment for the orphans, homeless, neglected, displaced and abandoned, those children born of leprous parents, those

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