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 ⧫ 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 33 P a g e CHR CAR REGIONAL HR SITUATION REPORT – JANUARY to JUNE 2020

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