E. Persons with Disability
Province
Disability
due to
chronic ill
Hear
ness
ing
disability
Learning
disability
Mental/
Intellectual
disability
Multiple
Disabilities
Orthopedic
(musculo
skeletal)
disability
Psychosoci
al disability
Speech
Impairment
Visual
Disability
ment
Total
Data of PWDs Registered with DOH-CAR
Abra
0
23
1
33
2
90
16
24
37
226
Apayao
1
34
41
74
2
253
57
94
105
661
Baguio
City
3
271
267
401
7
792
359
109
304
251
3
Benguet
0
176
107
313
1
644
217
85
351
Ifugao
0
35
22
89
1
206
65
33
69
189
4
520
Kalinga
0
137
131
187
0
780
243
137
259
Mt.
Province
0
25
6
63
0
142
16
18
44
187
4
314
TOTAL
4
701
575
1160
13
2907
973
500
116
9
800
2
Source: Philippine Registry on Persons with Disability (PRPWD) V.2.0
CHR-CAR Programs and Services to PWDs
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Monitoring of Situation of PWDs During the COVID-19 Enhanced Community
Quarantine
With the implementation of the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ),
access to food supplies and other necessities has become difficult to many.
Yearning to help to do its part in quelling the COVID-19 pandemic, CHR-CAR
family reached out to vulnerable sectors especially the PWDs in Baguio City
and the adjacent town of Tuba, and La Trinidad, Benguet by monitoring their
rights and situation at the same time giving of relief goods purchased out of
their pocket.
The activity was implemented in two different occasions, first on April 23,
2020 and second on May 6-7, 2020 in partnership with the Pines City Federation
of Persons with Disabilities headed by John Paredes and the office of Baguio
City Councilor Arthur Allad-iw, Chair of the Committee on Persons with
Disabilities. Councilor Allad-iw is a PWD himself having an orthopaedic
impairment, an educator, and most of all a human rights advocate.
A summary of the findings is indicated as follows:
As a general assessment, the addresses of PWDs monitored are located
in remote areas wherein some managed to live in shanties or makeshift
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